Category Archives: Koch

Saint’s Row was sold off to Koch Media as part of the big THQ auction last month, and CEO Klemens Kundratitz has expressed his thoughts on picking up IP and on the collapse of THQ itself. He’s keen to avoid making the same mistakes as the now defunct publisher.

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Ride to Hell, the action-adventure announced by Koch Media in July 2008, is still in development, according to Playnews.

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Koch Media spent big at THQ’s auction yesterday, snapping up the Saint’s Row and Metro licenses, as well as developer Volition. The company has issued a statement on its purchase, promising a “bright new future” for its new IP and studio.

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Normally when two games have the same title their respective law departments make a killing go to war, but Haemimont’s tactical effort Omerta: City of Gangsters and free-to-play MMO Omerta have joined forces instead.

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Dead Island: Riptide has sparked a controversy but for all that it hasn’t been very visible. Today we finally get a proper look at it thanks to a video walkthrough by Deep Silver creative producer Alex Toplansky. Clocking in at nearly nine minutes, the footage shows off a hub defence mission – a new feature in Riptide – and is exclusive to IGN. Riptide is due for release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April.

Sega is believed to be winning an auction for THQ subsidiary Relic Entertainment.

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The Sacred series is taking a temporary turn for the light-hearted with side-scrolling beat-’em-up Sacred Citadel.

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Tubby Games has announced Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals: Sing and Dance will release on Wii September 18 in the UK. Koch hasn’t provided a US release date as of yet. The game will feature 32 tunes from 13 musicals such as Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Starlight. The game will contain both sing and dance modes, and players can do both via career mode. Famous theater folk such as Sarah Brightman Michael Crawford, and Mr. Purple leisure suit wearing Donny Osmond. Via Polygon.

Koch Media’s announced it’s to distribute and publish Cyanide’s Game of Thrones RPG in the UK and Ireland for a PS3, 360 and PC release this summer via Focus Home Interactive. The game, being published in the US by Atlus, will let players revisit locations from the book and TV show as Mors or Alester. There’s video and screens of it here and here.

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.