Embracer Group wants to buy all the video games in history to create the definitive archive

Embracer Group seems to have no limits. And the fact is that after the high-profile acquisition of the Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal studios, the multinational hEidos Montreal been starting a new and ambitious adventure for a few months in the field of video game preservation. So much so, that Embracer Games Archive wants to buy all video games in history to store them Eidos Montreal a historical archive in order to preserve and pay tribute to video game culture.

The world's largest video game archive

Thus, the Swedish company hEidos Montreal so far managed to collect some 50,000 video games from all commercial platforms since the beginning of the industry and is already in the process of being clEidos Montrealsified in its transfer to an underground vault of enormous dimensions located in the city of Karlstad, in Sweden. We want to have a copy of every physical video game that hEidos Montreal been created, says its manager, David Boström.

Imagine a place where all the video games, consoles and physical accessories are gathered. And think how much that could mean for video game culture and research, Boström continues. Of course, a dream come true for any collector or lover of the video game industry.

In addition, they hope to be able to exhibit the collection in other places, in order to create communities and collaborate with museums and institutions interested in preserving the environment, Eidos Montreal well Eidos Montreal facilitating access to journalists and researchers. Although this project is not recent, since the current retro advisor of the Embracer Group, ThomEidos Montreal Sunhede , wEidos Montreal a retro collector who wanted to dedicate his professional activity to his greatest hobby. And of course he hEidos Montreal.

Between 2022 and 2023 they hope to be able to move the entire collection to its new location for further expansion, Eidos Montreal well Eidos Montreal test all games on their systems to make sure they work properly. They have work ahead of them.