Deep Silver

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Deep Silver

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legal form Label from Koch Media
founding 2002
Seat Planegg , Bavaria GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Klemens Kundratitz
Reinhard Gratl
Branch Computer and video games
Website www.deepsilver.com

Deep Silver is a brand label of the German-Austrian media group Koch Media . The company has been operating as a publisher for computer games under this name since 2002 . Deep Silver develops and markets both its own and third-party software productions for common game platforms such as PCs , game consoles and mobile devices. The company has several development studios of its own for this purpose . The head office is in Planegg near Munich. In 2018, Deep Silver and Koch Media were taken over by THQ Nordic AB (now Embracer Group ).

history

The history of Deep Silver goes back to 2002, when Koch Media GmbH started its own publishing activities.

In 2007, Deep Silver GmbH in Vienna, which appeared under the name Deep Silver Vienna , was launched as a subcontractor. The team at the former Rockstar Vienna studio focused primarily on the development and production of full-price titles, especially for console platforms. In February 2010 - shortly after the publication of the first work Cursed Mountain - Koch Media GmbH announced that it would close the studio due to the economic situation. All publishing and development activities were concentrated at the headquarters in Planegg near Munich and continued under central management. After the separation of the German developer Piranha Bytes from its previous publisher Jowood , the Bochum studio announced the development of the role-playing game Risen in 2007 in cooperation with Deep Silver . As part of gamescom 2009, Deep Silver announced that the publisher had secured the trademark rights to Sacred from the insolvent developer Ascaron and wanted to continue the series, which was particularly successful and popular in Germany, on its own.

At the beginning of 2013, Deep Silver and the parent company Koch Media took over the American developer studio Volition after its owner THQ went bankrupt. In December 2013, the financially troubled company Fishlabs , a Hamburg-based developer of mobile games, was taken over to gain a foothold in the market for smartphones and tablet PCs. In July 2014, Deep Silver finally acquired Studio Nottingham, the trademark rights to the first-person shooter Homefront and all assets of the successor Homefront: The Revolution, which is in development, from the financially stricken game developer Crytek . The studio was renamed Deep Silver Dambuster Studios .

In February 2018, Koch Media - and thus Deep Silver - was taken over by the Swedish THQ Nordic AB. After the takeover, the new owner acquired the rights to the game titles Second Sight and Timesplitters and were transferred to Koch Media / Deep Silver for support. The games were originally developed by Free Radical Design, a forerunner of Dambuster Studios. In 2019, the development teams Warhorse Studios and Milestone were taken over.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ THQ Nordic AB buys Koch Media on 4players.de (accessed on February 14, 2018)
  2. ↑ Golem.de : Koch Media closes developer studio Deep Silver Vienna
  3. ^ Announcement by Risen
  4. ↑ Gamersglobal.de: Koch Media announces Sacred3
  5. ↑ http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/23/deep-silver-confirms-acquisition-of-saints-row-metro-and-voliti/
  6. ↑ http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/koch-media-fishlabs
  7. ↑ Golem.de: Crytek sells Homefront and its studio to Koch Media , accessed on July 30, 2014
  8. ↑ THQ Nordic - Publisher buys rights to Timesplitters and Second Sight . ( gamestar.de [accessed on August 19, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Elena Schulz: Koch Media buys Warhorse - Kingdom Come studio changes hands. In: Gamestar . February 13, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Koch Media acquires Milestone. In: Gamesmarkt. August 14, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 .
  11. ^ Christian Klaß: GC: Deep Silver Vienna - Koch Media buys Games That Matter. In: Golem.de . August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .