Category Archives: Koch

Techland has said it wasn’t surprised when Germany banned its zombie-shooter Dead Island from being sold in the country. Matter of fact, the firm and its publisher Deep Silver were aware of such a possibility “from the very beginning.”

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Koch Media’s announced that it’s to distribute NCSoft titles in the UK. As part of an existing deal for European countries like France and Spain, the company will handle distribution for the Guild Wars Trilogy, as well as the release of Guild Wars 2, whenever that is. ” Guild Wars 2 is set to be our biggest ever release and our partnership with Koch Media will give us unprecedented focus from UK retailers supported by a highly effective operational team,” said NCSoft sales boss Sarah Rogers. GW2 currently has no date as yet.

GT’s posted some new footage of Dead or Alive: Dimensions, showing off quick-time events for the fighter, as well as other bits of gameplay. You can watch them below the break. The fighter is due out later this month for 3DS.

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Publisher JoWood, which filed for insolvency earlier in the month, has filed a lawsuit against Koch Media claiming the firm underpaid for 6.4 million JoWood shares back in 2006.

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Koch has announced Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth for DS and Doctor Who: Return to Earth for the Wii, both of which will release “in the coming months” in Australia, the UK and parts of Europe.

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Word on the street has it that the publisher for Techland’s Dead Island, the zombie shooter long in the works from the Call of Juarez folks, is none other than Deep Silver.

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Funcom has announced a date of May 11 for the first expansion to Age of Conan.

There is also a pre-order program in place for Rise of the Godslayer, should you wish to undertake the adventure into the lands of Khitai.

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Funcom has announced that a retail release containing both Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures and the expansion Rise of the Godslayer is to be published by Deep Silver.

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Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, announced today that it has cemented the North American publishing rights for the Xbox 360 version of Risen.

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Koch just confirmed a February 5 street date for S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Call of Pripyat in the UK, Nordic and Italy.

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Lost Horizon, the PC point and click adventure game from the makers of Secret Files, has some new screens for it posted over on IGN.

Set during the 1930′s, the game contains locales such as Hong Kong, Morocco, and Tibet, as the player takes on the role of smuggler and former British soldier Fenton Paddock.

Tasked with finding a lost expedition in Tibet, he must beat the Nazis to the ever mythical Shambala if he is to prevent them from using the magical kingdom as a weapon for further conquest.

Shambala should sound familiar to some gamers at this point, but we won’t say why just in case.

Lost Horizon is set for release next year on the PC.

Kotaku’s got ten shots of Prison Break in game form.

According to the email we received a while ago from Deep Silver’s, the shots show a “highly detailed reconstruction of instantly recognisable environments from the show such as the prison yard, inside the cells, and the Prison Industries workshop.

“Also revealed for the first time is the in game image of Lincoln Burrows, snapped as he makes his escape from Fox River in an iconic scene from the TV series.”

Astonishing. Check the shit out of that prison.

Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes released a demo for Risen today.

It contains some adventures on the island of Faranga and allows users to test how well the full version of Risen will run on their PCs.

The demo includes the introduction of the game where the nameless hero survives a shipwreck in a storm and lands on the shore of the Island of Faranga.

Risen is expected for release on PC tomorrow.

Koch Media has announced that Prison Break: The Conspiracy will be released for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 March 26 in Europe.

Based on the television series, the action/adventure game features agent Tom Paxton who is sent to the Fox River State Penitentiary to find out why Michael Scofield became a bank robber.

The storyline runs parallel to the first season of the series as Paxton encounters several characters that should be familiar to you if you watched the show, and he also experiences some of the key events that happened, but from his own perspective.

Here’s hoping it’s better than the one for LOST.

Thanks, StrategyInformer.

A video showing off Sacred 2′s Ice and Blood expansion on PC has surfaced over on CVG.

Watching it, you will become privy to the new Cursed Forest area.

The expansion adds more to the world of Ancaria with two new regions and over 30 hours of additional gameplay, but a new playable character is to be made available along with lots and lots of new enemies, items, missions, and weapons.

Cool. Go watch.

Piranha Bytes has announced that its RPG Risen has gone gold for PC and will be released on October 2, as expected.

However, its publisher Deep Silver has revealed that the Xbox 360 version has been moved to an early 2010 release.

No reason was given for the delay.

Via Shack.

Koch’s Wii survival horror’s taking a bit of a sacking at review ahead of its launch this week.

The Himalayan adventure, set in the late 1980s, follows a mountaineer as he searches for his lost brother.

Things don’t go very well, obviously. Do as thou wilt.

• Meristation – 7.5/10
• IGN – 7.5/10
• Gamespot – 7.5/10
• GamerVision – 6/10
• Eurogamer Spain – 7/10

Cursed Mountain, the new horror action title from Deep Silver and Koch Media, has arrived in stores.

The Wii exclusive is set in the 1980′s and has mountaineer Eric Simmons climbing the Himalayas looking for his lost brother.

Wonder how many Yetis he will run into to. One thing is for sure, he will encounter loads of souls whose bodies were broken and who knows what else while searching for the mysterious artifact known as the Terma.

Mwha ha ha.

Press release is through the break.

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Reaction to Risen being refused classification in Australia has caused the president of the Game Developers Association of Australia to describe the rating system as “awful”, “ridiculous” and “antiquated”.

“We are once again caught in this awful, ridiculous web of the antiquated classification system that we all have to endure,” Tom Crago stated in a radio interview. “Here in Australia the sooner that changes, the better; it is obviously a battle to ensure common sense prevails. We will get there eventually, but in the meantime as gamers in Australia we suffer, and to be honest we are embarrassed at how backward our government is.

“We are the butt of a lot of jokes. I travel; obviously a lot, talking to other developers and publishers and people cannot believe it that we still have this ridiculous system here in Australia, designed twenty or thirty years ago, and hasn’t changed since.”

Crago added that an R rating added to the mix would help matters, as all games must adhere to the requirements for an age 15 rating, further stating that “the law needs to evolve and move with the times”.

“The way I look at it, ultimately the war is won, we will get there in the end, and it’s just a case of counting the days until common sense prevails.”

Thanks, GI.biz.

Andy Serkis and John Rhys Davies head the cast for Piranha Bytes’ latest RPG, Risen.

Serkis takes the role of The Inquisitor, John Rhys Davies performs as Don Esteban, Lena Headey, (Sarah Connor Chronicles) takes the role of Patty.

Fincher is played by Burn Gorman, Brendan Coyle takes the role of Commandant Carlos, Damian O’Hare plays Olf, Simon Greenall plays Luis, Oscar is played by Donald McCorkindale and Stuart Organ plays Brogar.

The Archers actress, Louiza Patikas represents Sara and Timothy Watson from Eastenders and Casualty takes the role of Romanov.

“The quality of the voice casting reflects the quality of the game” stated Koch Meida’s Paul Nicholls. “With such an amazing lineup of talent from movies and TV, there is a voice everyone will recognize; we will attract a new generation of RPG players to the genre”.

Game’s out for PC and Xbox 360 October 2.

Full press release below.

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