Marvel Rivals. 444,286. all-time peak 2 hours ago
*Unattractive characters in Concord vs attractive characters in Marvel Rivals*" Meme *Female characters with shapely butts*
"Marvel Rivals is so popular... why?"
"such an assortment" 'Marvel Rivals' Seattle Team Laid Off By NetEase: 'Lazy, Entitled, Slow and Woke' - "Fans have been concerned with it learned that Chinese company NetEase, the company behind the popular smash hit Marvel Rivals video game, has laid off its staff based in Seattle and is closing its U.S. support division. However, according to reports there is nothing to worry about as the Seattle game developers were not the creative team behind Marvel Rivals, which is based in China. The Seattle team is said to have been developers that worked on budgets and staff — again NOT creative developers... the reason NetEase is getting rid of a majority of its studios is because the Western developers are “lazy, entitled, slow and woke.” “Netease isn’t just laying of the 6 person Marvel Rivals team,” tweeted Grummz. “Netease is also pulling funding from Western (and potentially Japanese) gaming studios. The CEO is said to be very unsatisfied with Western developers, calling them ‘lazy, entitled, slow and woke’ according to a source I spoke with.” Grummz continued with a list of studios adding, “These are huge investments by Netease, founded by top veterans from AAA gaming, and mostly made during the high-flying game demand driven by Covid boredom. A demand which has since contracted.”" Meme - Vee @not__vee: "They do not know how to draw feminine features. These are just men with wigs wtf lol"
LearningTheLaw @Mangalawyer: "Concord official artist creating Evangelion vs. Shift-Up (Stellar Blade, Goddess of Victory: Nikke) art. Which way, normal man?"
*American artists* *Korean artists* Meme - Yin Imashime: "This could have saved Concord *Daw [fat brown person]* *Hot black woman in one piece swimsuit*" Meme - Nara Kerbos @kerbos76: "because Concord went for a realistic style and they for some reason gave the morbidly obese character a jawline which makes 0 sense, it looks like the head of another character forced onto his body"
El Capitano @CapitanCrowds: "how is it possible that between 2 overweight characters, the one who is fatter and with less clothes looks infinitely better than the other one? 8 years of development to make Concord and that was the best they could do? *Daw from Concord, Roadhog from Overwatch*" Leaked Concord Dev Message: '[We're] going through an extremely difficult time'... - "Amanda Kiefer, Sr. Concept Artist for Firewalk Studios catastrophe of Concord, wants you to feel bad for them now... The toxic culture at Firewalk Studios continues to unravel as (another) woke employee, Amanda Kiefer, Senior Concept Artist, had some protected tweets leaked out... I previously covered Amanda Kiefer prior to the game coming out, known online as @ImagineAmanda on X (now protected mode)... But here's a quick TLDR on her to catch you up in case you don't want to rehash that entire article: She does not like gamers. While undeniably talented in her craft, Kiefer has developed a reputation for vehemently attacking those who criticize upcoming games, such as the Silent Hill 2 remake, and has even gone so far as to label dissenters as malicious. Her online persona paints a picture of a professional more interested in defending her ideologies than fostering an inclusive and welcoming gaming community. Before a whistleblower reached out to me with insider information about the disaster internally at Firewalk Studios, Amanda had already preemptively blocked me on Twitter, raising some questions about her transparency (and willingness) to face any accountability (shocker). This suggested a desire to silence critics and try her best to maintain control over the narrative surrounding her and Firewalk. It was a telling sign of the defensive and insular culture that had permeated the studio. Firewalk is knee-deep in a toxic environment, characterized by extreme political correctness and a left-leaning agenda that stifles diverse viewpoints. Employees like Amanda Kiefer seemed to wield significant influence, promoting a "culture that prioritized ideological conformity over creative freedom. The whole situation was reminiscent of previous reports involving other industry figures, such as Lisa Brown, who allegedly blacklisted employees for not adhering to her preferred titles, further contributing to the hostile workplace atmosphere. While Amanda is undoubtedly skilled with some of her art designs outside of the game, their approach to handling any criticism has been anything but that. The focus on including certain 'progressive' elements, such as diverse body types and pronouns in Concord appears less about genuine inclusion and more about virtue signaling. Gamers have been increasingly pushing back against these perceived forced political narratives, arguing that they detract from the core gaming experience... But Sony and Firewalk refused to listen..." Meme - 🅂🅄🄿🄴🅁🄲🄷🄰🄼🄿🅉 🢃🢇🢀 🦶 Steam @SuperChampzLive: "She doesn't even have Concord in her bio. She knows the game is a huge flop and can damage her career. she feels ashamed of her own game"
Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation: "Concord's lead artist: “Pretty soon these weirdos will have no games to buy at all...”"
Amanda Kiefer @imagineamanda: "Pretty soon these weirdos will have no games to buy at all..." Concord Developer Firewalk Studios Shut Down By Sony
Meme - "JigglesBunny. Prophet of Truth. Avenger. Lots of incredibly talented people just lost their jobs and years of their hard work and effort is gone forever because a bunch of lame dorks couldn't get over characters with pronouns and iffy, boring designs. Great industry we have here. Great community."
So much to unpack here. They were so talented and worked for so long, but they came up with iffy, boring designs. Their target audience is "a bunch of lame dorks" - good luck when you insult the customers (and if they're a bunch of lame dorks, why target them?) As usual the woke complain a lot but don't put their money where their mouth is - the modern audience is nowhere to be found again
Meme - Lotr fans: "Why are you shitting on my plate?"
Lotr tv show: "How do you know its Shit? It isnt even out yet"
Lotr fans: "Now I can clearly see it is shit"
Lotr tv show: "No, you're just racist"
Meme - "ARAGORN, SON OF ARATHORN SAYS. WATCHING THE RINGS OF POWER WILL STRENGTHEN THE DARK LORD. ONLY THROUGH LOW VIEWING NUMBERS CAN WE DEFEAT THIS EVIL. YOU MUST NOT WATCH."
The Mistake That 'The Rings of Power' Keeps Making - The Atlantic - "Viewers know how the tale ends, so the series is trying to manufacture suspense by dragging out the story... The show has condensed Tolkien’s nearly 4,000-year timeline of events down to a few decades so that all the key players in the saga of the One Ring can be on-screen at once, and the episodes manage to feel both overlong and cramped. So much has been added to pad out the show’s trajectory and provide tonal suspense to an epic that fundamentally doesn’t need it. Sauron, in particular, seems like the true victim of this narrative stretching, as the show keeps spinning the once and future dark lord in confusing new directions. Is he supposed to be relatable? Is he supposed to be an antihero? Is the audience being steered toward empathy for his point of view, so the show can “surprise” us later by revealing that he’s been evil this whole time?... The main impetus behind The Rings of Power seems to be: How can we keep this going? With five seasons planned for a series that has a shockingly hefty price tag (rumored to be about $1 billion already), Amazon Prime Video would naturally want one of its biggest marquee assets to last. That’s the problem with premium television in the streaming era. It’s all so fabulously expensive that it must keep making a case for itself to continue beyond the usual allotment of two or three seasons"
Meme - "We need Elrond to pass a brooch to Galadriel so she can get free from the orc camp, how?"
"Kiss her forehead or cheek"
"Hug her"
"Kiss her mouth, who cares if he marries her daughter, orcs are sensitive creatures and will blush away from elves kissing"
"prime video Employee of the month. Vice president."
'The Rings Of Power' Showrunners Defend Decision To Humanize Orcs: "We Feel Like This Goes Straight Back To Tolkien" - "As seen in the series’ third (and currently latest) episode, The Eagle and The Sceptre, rather than being portrayed as the cruel species depicted by J.R.R. Tolkien himself – “[The Orcs] hated everybody and everything, and particularly the orderly and prosperous,” wrote the author in The Hobbit” – the Orcs in The Rings of Power are instead shown as brutal but oppressed foot soldiers, their lives concerned not just with war and pillaging, but also achieving a future where their families can exist as more than tools for Lord Sauron to use in service of his ambitions."
‘The Rings Of Power’ Season 2 Premiere Review: A Dreadful, Jumbled Mockery Of Tolkien’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ - "I have somehow made it through the first three episodes of The Rings Of Power Season 2 on Prime Video, though the show’s sophomore effort did not make this either pleasant or easy for me. The trappings of a decent epic fantasy are here. It looks good (except for when it looks like a movie set) and it sounds very nice (though Bear McCreary’s score is not particularly memorable compared to many of his better works) but that’s about it. Season 2 is, if anything, worse than Season 1, or at least messier. Sure, it picks up the action a bit, but somehow the soulless Season 1 feels downright poignant compared to whatever this second season brings to the table. I’m astonished both by its lack of coherent storytelling and its utter absence of anything like heart, no matter how many times the characters say Very Deep Things to one another as music swells dramatically—and loudly—to instruct us how to feel... Perhaps because of all the liberties taken in the first season, Season 2 is a jumbled mess... We need Conflict Between Main Characters, after all, even if it doesn’t really make sense. It’s all very strange... So much is happening in the first three episodes but so little of it matters. One can’t help but think these guys bit off far, far more than they could chew. There are so few human moments, so few bits where you laugh or grow fond of any of these characters, that it’s mostly like watching a series of events transpire (though not in any semblance or order) rather than watching a story unfold. The only saving grace—and it’s not much—is that we get less of bossgirl Galadriel this season. Her role is greatly diminished (thankfully) but nothing very compelling takes its place, and we’re left without a very strong sense of who this story is supposed to be about. There are too many stories crammed into one show, too many timelines condensed into one timeline, for any of it to really matter... Honestly, I found the first three episodes of Season 2 exhausting in general. It’s all over the place. Things are constantly Very Serious but without any sort of emotional hook to make us care. This show suffers from the common problems so many prequels face, amplified by the bad writing and two-dimensional characters that leave Rings Of Power feeling so shallow despite all its pretensions and big budget affect. It all feels (and looks and sounds) wildly generic. Fantasy should be imaginative and distinct, but so much of what we get these days bends ever toward this devoutly generic aesthetic. And I haven’t even mentioned the Baby Gandalf storyline, which takes us into Rhûn with Nori and a surprise appearance by Poppy who, it turns out, is an intrepid explorer who easily follows her friend and not-Gandalf through the desert and brings with her both biscuits and maps, effectively saving the day because that makes sense. Or what about this new evil wizard hunting the ISTAR (he says this many times, ISTAR, to let us know—wink wink, nudge nudge—that the Stranger is totally Gandalf, actually) and some masked dudes that look like they sprang directly out of Star Wars or Mad Max because sure, that fits the aesthetic we’re going for with Lord of the Rings... There is so much superfluous nonsense in this show. In fact, when you really shake the branches it’s hard to see if anything that falls to the ground isn’t superfluous. Is there an actual story here or are we just following lots of different characters as they do stuff, mostly separate from one another, and magically solve problems that don’t really matter to begin with? I’ve also forgotten to mention the coup in Númenor, which is frankly one of the most bizarre sequences I’ve ever seen, with a great eagle—of all things—effectively confirming the outcome as our various heroes—Elendil, mostly—stand around looking as confused as I felt... Honestly, this version of Stories From Middle-earth makes me want to root for Sauron. That’s a problem. This isn’t Lord of the Rings in any way shape or form. It’s just Amazon buying the rights to little fragments of it, and jampacking and piecemealing it into a form that apes, badly, hideously, carelessly, Tolkien’s legendarium."
Very Bad News For ‘Rings Of Power’ Season 3, As Season 2 Viewership Plummets - "The cheaper the show, the more likely it is to survive lower ratings. This is why cheap reality shows are so popular with networks and streamers: They cost very little but draw lots of eyeballs. It’s a lot harder for big-budget, premiere television to break even. Now we have some very bad news for Amazon’s massively expensive Rings Of Power, a prequel to The Lord Of The Rings that tells a condensed and altered version of Tolkien’s Second Age of Middle-earth. Deadline reports that Samba TV, which tracks streaming numbers, has noted a massive decline in viewership from Season 1 to Season 2. According to Samba TV data, 1.8 million U.S. households watched the first episode of Season 1 within three days of it landing on Prime Video. Season 2 is half of that, with just 902,000 U.S. households tuning in for the first episode within four days its streaming debut... The first season was incredibly bad television that not only tinkered with the source material in disastrous ways, but was filled with all manner of plot-holes, cringey dialogue and bad writing that made characters we hoped to love, like Galadriel, more jarring than likeable. Season 2 continues to have most of the same problems as Season 1, though it remains a very nice show to look at with a sweeping score by Bear McCreary. It has all the trappings of a good epic fantasy with none of the heart or soul. And it’s boring... If I were Jeff Bezos, I would be looking for new showrunners and new writers at this point. But it’s too late. The many changes to lore and the many bizarre decisions that have been made up to this point will make any kind of narrative comeback all but impossible. If I were in charge, I would cancel the show after Season 2 and start over with more experienced showrunners, the best writers money can buy, and a team of Tolkien experts dedicated to getting the lore right within the confines of the rights. Obviously some changes have to be made with any adaptation, but skilled showrunners and writers, willing to take experts seriously and eager not to “make it their own” but do the best job possible adapting the source material, ought to be able to come up with a really compelling series about the Second Age—instead of this tepid, generic fan-fic we’ve had foisted upon us. This is why I don’t trust Rotten Tomatoes scores. The critics are all-but-unanimous in singing this show’s praises, but audiences aren’t sticking around. This is in stark contrast to Game Of Thrones, which built up every season... Variety reports that Rings Of Power was #2 in streaming over the weekend per Luminate. Luminate reports that the show saw an estimated 553.5 million minutes of watch-time, translating into roughly 2.7 million views. Now compare this to data from Season 1, which also opened over Labor Day weekend two years ago. That brought in 1.2 billion minutes, or about 8.9 million estimated views with just two episodes available in contrast to Season 2’s three episodes. Variety describes this as a “slightly slower start” but 2.7 is 30% of Season 1’s 8.9 million views—far less than half."
Weird. I thought it was normal for a show to lose viewers as it went along, but GoT went up every season, from 9.3 million to 46 million
There’s Only One Good Thing About ‘The Rings Of Power’ Season 2 So Far - "Hopkinson’s ‘Gandalf Roasts’ videos kept me (mostly) sane throughout the first season. He’s done some great videos about various Star Wars shows as well, but you can’t beat Gandalf, baby Elrond and a rather ditzy Boromir, all of whom appear in these videos thanks to Hopkinson’s remarkable impressionist skills and some very goofy deepfakes. But what really makes these videos so much fun is just how clever and witty the banter is, and how Hopkinson is able to really poke fun at the series in a way that isn’t mean-spirited but is nevertheless incredibly on-point. Perhaps the best line in this latest Gandalf Roasts video—the first of Season 2—is when Gandalf replies to Boromir’s suggestion that Celebrimbor just make new, uncorrupted rings with the line: “If you insist on bringing relentless logic to this show, Boromir, you’re gonna have a bad time.”... My favorite part in this roast is when Boromir asks if Sauron’s death and subsequent transformation into a black, venomous mass is how Tolkien wrote the story in his texts."
Meme - "The dwarves are coming! Look to the north!"
Game of Thrones Director: "We kinda forgot the sun rises in the east"
High King Fëanor - Alpha Chad of Middle-earth on X - "Just want to reiterate something concerning Galadriel. Canonically: Her grandfather was killed by Morgoth. One of her uncles was slain by balrogs. Another uncle was killed by Morgoth. Eight of her eleven cousins were killed in combat. One of her three brothers was killed by a werewolf. Her other two brothers were burned alive. Her daughter was tortured by orcs and ended up abandoning Middle-earth due to torment and sailed into the West. Also, she was separated from her mother and father for over seven thousand years after she came to Middle-earth. Not once did she pick up a sword and go on a revenge quest, nor did she behave like an insufferable twat. Had the people working on Rings of Stupid actually read the source material instead of using it as kindling, they might've been able to portray her just a bit more accurately. Art by YidanYuan"
Rings of Power Galadriel Actress Morfydd Clark Cries About Criticism From Male Lord Of The Rings Fans As Rings Of Power Season 2 Premiers - "Rings of Power season 2 is out on Amazon Prime Video, and they are already beginning the typical victim press tour for shows that don’t live up to their original I.P. and, therefore, upset fans. Actress Morfydd Clark, who plays Galadriel in the show, is now complaining about the fans. It seems that public relations firms for entertainment companies have one move when they develop a new TV show or movie for “modern audiences,” and they inevitably fall flat among viewers—to play victim over identity politics. Disney most poignantly capitalized on this strategy with their failed films Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the MCU’s Captain Marvel, but it’s become much more standard as of late. When ramping up for the recent series of Doctor Who, showrunner Russell T. Davies gave several interviews about how the new iteration would “upset fans,” while Ncuti Gatwa went from media outlet to media outlet complaining about racism. This resulted in his infamous “touch grass” statement, in which he told viewers not to watch the show. This resulted in some of the lowest-rated episodes in Doctor Who’s history. Since then, Amandla Stenberg of Star Wars: The Acolyte has made a ridiculous music video called “Discourse” in which she rants about the alleged racists who don’t like what Leslye Headland and company did with the property. Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power has followed the same trajectory as these other programs with their strange, diversity casting choices and bastardization of J.R.R. Tolkien’s elegant lore. Between having a black elf where they poignantly feature a white man calling him “knife ears” (which sounds a lot like a different word that starts with N), and every segment seems to have the same skin color makeup to present diversity, it’s created an unbelievable world and rings fake among fans. During a recent press tour, actor Ismael Cruz Cordova leaned into the racial elements of his role with Entertainment Weekly, saying he’s proud he created “a big controversy of me being the first elf that wasn't white. I loved the nerve that I pinched. I really do. I was so excited to create something new.” Upsetting fans by trying to stoke racial divisions hardly seems something to be proud of. It’s odd how these actors rarely talk about their hard work in the role or the scripts being something special. As Rings Of Power Season 2’s trailer was ratio’d by fans with thousands of dislikes when it was revealed after San Diego Comic-Con, it seems these actors are aware the production is sub-par, and so they are left with one defensive marketing gimmick to try to stir up political backing for their show. Morfydd Clark is following the same narrative for Galadriel, a character who looks and acts nothing like the sorceress elf in The Lord Of The Rings but has now been made into the generic 120-pound strong female lead warrior princess who beats up fully grown battle-hardened men because she can. In an interview with Elle, she started the victim narrative around her being a female lead: “I was just totally unprepared when season 1 came out. I’ve seen a really dark side of what it means to be someone who [anyone] can write a message to on Instagram, and a really lovely side.” In case anyone wasn’t clear that she was crying sexism because of Lord of the Rings fans disliking the bad characterization of Galadriel, she added that the criticisms come from “primarily from men.” As the male demographic is most interested in a sweeping epic fantasy like Lord of the Rings, it seems strange that she would attack the people watching the show rather than aiming to make it better."
'The Rings of Power' Season 2 review: Beautiful but empty - "Season 1 of the outrageously expensive Amazon Prime series had a lot going for it. The sets, the costumes and the effects are gorgeous. You can tell and respect how much work it took to bring this series to life. The story also had a lot of opportunity to go in almost any direction... Unfortunately, all that promise has been utterly wasted on the confusing, directionless and emotionally bankrupt second season of "Rings of Power" (streaming Thursdays, ★½ out of four). If Season 1 was a leisurely stroll through Middle-earth, Season 2 gallops away, leaving many of the important details, character developments and stakes behind. If you can possibly remember what happened in the first season − and I was still vaguely confused even after watching a recap video, which is a mark against the series because homework should not be required − you'll know things are looking grim in Middle-earth... the new episodes are far more interested in the big-picture plot twists and mythology than any of the characters. There are no magnetic heroes to ground the story from its many locations. The producers expect to scare us with monsters and villains but give us no one to love. Much hangs on the shoulders of the young cast, especially Aramayo and Clark, but mostly they lack the talent or depth to add gravitas to the story. The series cycles through the storylines in perfunctory fashion. The relationships often don't make sense, and it's hard to keep track of who is related to whom, let alone their names and motivations. And that's a problem, because you can have the most beautiful sets and the most daring plot of any TV show around, but the essence of story is characters. Audiences are drawn to people, even if they're dressed up as dwarves or Harfoots. When dwarf prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur) fights with his father, Durin III (Peter Mullan), it's hard to care, even if you can remember what they were fighting about in Season 1 (the writers feel no need to remind the audience). It's heartbreaking to see a story with so much potential, so much work behind it, and with such beloved source material crumble the way "Rings of Power" has. Certainly, Hollywood has proved that no production is too big to fail, no matter how much money is thrown at it."
Clearly, they need even more money
Rings of Power: No Themes, No Meaning, No Point - YouTube
Rings Of Power - The Ultimate Insult To Tolkien - YouTube
Meme - Juicy Tolkien memes: "Hey Tolkien fans. The Rings of Power-cast have something they want to tell you. *showing middle fingers*"
‘The Rings Of Power’ Season 2 Debuts To Truly Shocking Review Scores On Rotten Tomatoes - "I’m not sure what to think about the glowing reviews of Amazon’s The Rings Of Power Season 2 but I’m tempted to say that the critics must be crazy. I’ve said it before and Eru knows I’ll say it again. With just 39 critic reviews in at the time of this writing—prior to the first three episodes dropping this Thursday, August 29th—the show is at a startling 85% Fresh, 2 percentage points above Season 1’s 83% (with 491 critic reviews). From what I’ve gathered, some critics have watched just the first three episodes while others have seen the entire season. It’s less clear why this is the case. In Season 1, critics were given just two episodes (which I initially enjoyed, before losing faith as the season wore on). It’s not enough to judge an entire season of television by, and I wish Rotten Tomatoes would not offer up seasonal scores until the entire season was out and reviewed... Suffice to say, I do not trust this score, though I am open to being wrong in my skepticism. I do not trust the critical consensus when it comes to shows like this or The Acolyte (I don’t think it deserves 78%) or Netflix’s bizarrely praised Hit Man or the dreadful True Detective: Night Country. There’s something odd about all these mediocre offerings receiving such gushing praise over and over again. Do we no longer have standards? The broader culture never has, but shouldn’t critics? What happened? Then there is the question of bias. Screeners only went out to some outlets. Was Amazon being selective about who received these early screeners, hoping to ensure a better Rotten Tomatoes score before the premiere? This sort of thing happens all the time. It’s not at all unusual. Consumers should be appropriately suspect of early reviews, especially when it comes to TV shows. Despite admitting that the trailers have looked pretty good, I just don’t buy it. Like this season’s villain, Annatar, trailers can be deceiving... Of course, I haven’t asked the sea whether Season 2 will be an improvement over the first (not in and of itself a particularly challenging feat). I probably should. After all, the sea is always right. I’ll go to the sea and say: “Give me the meat and give it to me raw!” and the sea will say “Do you know why a ship floats but a rock sinks?” and I will say “Morrrrdor!” and we will all have a good laugh; the meat, the sea and I. To be fair, there were some good moments in the first season and even some good lines interspersed among all the bad. The orcs were really cool, with the best makeup and design of any orcs on TV or in movies. And some turns of phrase really turned nicely. “There can be no trust between hammer and rock” is a pretty good line. But many of the better lines are just bits from The Lord of the Rings twisted and shoved into these characters’ mouths. “No matter the sorrow, no matter the cost, not all those who wonder or wander are lost” is hardly original, dear Harfoots. Most of the “deep” lines in the series are just kind of silly—phrases that are trying so very hard to sound deep, but are almost nonsensical on closer examination. “Sometimes, to find the light, we must first touch darkness” is one such line. After all, if you’re trying to find the light we must assume that darkness is already upon us. That’s why you’re trying to find the light in the first place! There are many similar examples. And many, many more problems with the show both in terms of its fast-and-loose affiliation with Tolkien’s lore and worldbuilding, and its messy storytelling. It was pretty, no doubt, but the costumes looked like costumes and the world felt fake in all the wrong ways."
Sean D Knight on X - "I don't care how the writers contrived Elrond kissing Galadriel. This fanfiction is disgusting. The writers and fans are weirdos. Amazon’s #TheRingsofPower Is An Expensive Lesson In Bad Writing"
High King Fëanor - Alpha Chad of Middle-earth on X - "I genuinely want to throw up right now. Canonically, Galadriel is Elrond's mother in law. Rings of Stupid is gross. It is a gross show. And I just cannot wait to see all the clapping seal freaks, the Tolkien tourists, come out and try and defend this. Go on! Give me an excuse."
Embracer Reports 10% Drop in Entertainment Sales Blaming Tolkien IP - "Embracer has reported disappointing results for the second quarter of 2024, reporting a large drop in net sales of 21% across the gaming group to SEK 8.6 billion ($782 million), with net sales of its entertainment and services also dropping by 10%... In its entertainment and services division, which also includes comic book publisher Dark Horse Media, Embracer reported a 14% drop in organic growth, which it put down to “lower activity and tough comparison figures year on year” within subsidiary Middle-earth Enterprises, the holding company for “Lord of the Rings.”"
