Last night, Deep Silver publishing house announced that in its very first weekend, the zombie extermination shooter Dead Island 2 reached the mark of one million copies sold. And this is without a release on Steam!

Yesterday it became known that 1C Entertainment will release King’s Bounty II in partnership with Koch Media. We asked Nikolai Baryshnikov to comment on the decision to publish the long-awaited project not on his own.

The Outward role-playing game has sold 400 thousand copies in six months. This is much more than the developer studio Nine Dots expected.

The publisher also published a financial report for the fourth quarter of 2018 and for the whole year.

The fact is that the publisher expects more traffic from the Epic Games Store.

The sudden transfer of the game to the Epic Games Store did not suit everyone.

Another victory of the Epic Games bizdev. Blockbuster Metro Exodus from the Ukrainian 4A Games in the version for personal computers will be distributed only in the “epic” store. There will be no previously planned release on Steam.

THQ Nordic, buying up asset after asset, did not lose. In the third quarter of 2018, the publisher’s net sales increased by 1403% year-on-year and amounted to $139.8 million.

The Austrian corporation THQ Nordic has acquired the German media publisher Koch Media, which owns the game publisher Deep Silver. The transaction amount amounted to €121 million, according to the company’s press release.

Over 30 people were fired from Volition Studio, known for the Saints Row series of games and the new Agents of Mayhem title.

German studios Fishlabs and Chimera Entertainment have announced a collaboration. The two companies will jointly develop a midcore mobile game.