is our licensing business. That’s the part that I’m responsible for with my great team and is us working with domain experts around the world to bring the best expressions of our IP to fans, no matter what the platform is. We talk about, as a company, having over 1,500 IP; if you played it as a child or into your teens, there’s a very good chance we own it. That gives


us a rich, almost embarrassing treasure of products that we could build. But we can’t possibly build all of them, and some of them require world class experts in a particular genre. Two examples of that are Scopely with Monopoly Go! - arguably the best mobile developer and publisher in the world - and then Larian with Baldur’s Gate 3 - one of the top RPG developers in the world. That’s our licensing presence. And then we’ve got what I’ll call first-party, where


we’re developing product ourselves. That really began a few years ago when we launched Magic: The Gathering Arena. That was built with a team that’s in Seattle and was important to do strategically, because that’s a product that’ll be there for a long time. We acquired a studio in Montreal that used to be called


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