11 Facts About Deep Silver

Deep Silver is an Austrian video game publisher and a division of Plaion.

Deep Silver was announced in November 2002, with their first release to be Anarchy Online: The Notum Wars.

Deep Silver Vienna has only produced one game, Cursed Mountain, which was developed in association with Sproing Interactive and released in August 2009 for the Wii.

Deep Silver first gained widespread attention with their release of Dead Island and their acquisition of Volition.

Deep Silver acquired a minority interest in Berlin-based free-to-play game developer Infernum Productions in December 2012.

Related searches

In February 2013, Deep Silver announced its intentions to expand into the mobile games market.

In July 2014, Deep Silver acquired the rights to Homefront and its in-development sequel, Homefront: The Revolution, from German developer Crytek.

In May 2020, Koch Media and THQ Nordic, by this time both part of Embracer Group, exchanged several intellectual property rights: Deep Silver received Red Faction and Painkiller, while handing off Risen, Rush for Berlin, Sacred, Second Sight, and Singles: Flirt Up Your Life.

In January 2013, Deep Silver announced a special edition of their then-upcoming game Dead Island: Riptide, titled Zombie Bait Edition, which would include a statuette of a mutilated female torso in Europe and Australia.

In January 2019, Deep Silver partnered with Epic Games on a one-year exclusivity deal for the personal computer version of their upcoming game Metro Exodus on Epic's digital distribution storefront, the Epic Games Store.

Franchises published by Deep Silver include Metro from 4A Games and Volition's Saints Row, both of which were acquired through THQ's bankruptcy auction in 2013, as well as Techland-created Dead Island.