Techland announced that the spin-off Dying Light: The Beast has surpassed 1 million wishlists in less than three months since its announcement.

The creators of Dying Light ended 2023 with an operational loss of 90 million zloty (22.7 million dollars), reports the Polish publication Puls Biznesu, citing Techland’s financial report. This is the worst result in the company’s history.

The Polish company Techland has downsized part of its staff. This was reported by the portal GRY Online, which noticed posts by the laid-off employees on social media.

The Chinese colossus is preparing for another major deal. Tencent will acquire a key Techland package. This was announced by Pawel Marchewka, the founder and permanent CEO of the Polish company.

The Polish company Techland revealed this figure in a press release for PAP Biznes.

The capitalization of CD PROJEKT continues to fall. According to Business Insider, the market value of the developers of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 dropped below 10 billion zlotys or $2.08 billion. After that, CD PROJEKT lost the title of the most expensive Polish gaming company.

Very few details are known about the new project. It is reported that this is a new IP and that the game will take place in a large-scale fantasy world.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human shows excellent sales at the start. However, Techland encountered a lot of problems during production. We talked with a senior studio producer about the difficulties of developing a sequel, the expansion of the company, the work of the narrative team and the impact of the pandemic on internal processes.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human has an extremely successful start on Steam. Zombie action from Techland became the best-selling game of last week, capturing more than half of the places on the bestseller chart. He took six lines at once, including the first three.

Since its foundation, Techland has remained a closed company. However, now the developers of Dying Light have become a “joint stock company”. This may indicate that the company is preparing to enter the stock exchange.Dying Light 2

Recently, rumors appeared on the web that Microsoft is going to buy Techland. However, now the community manager of the Polish studio has stated that this is not true. According to him, the developers of Dying Light 2 do not intend to make a deal with Microsoft or anyone else.

A new publisher has appeared in Poland. Former Techland developers decided to release games themselves and launched a startup called Untold Tales. The publisher’s priority is single—player titles with an intriguing plot.

When the publishing division is closed, 13 employees will be laid off.

The weekly audience (WOW) of the zombie action game Dying Light by the Polish studio Techland is half a million players 2.5 years after the release of the game.

A report by Konrad Czernik from Techland. He spoke about the difficulties that arise when trying to create an art department. In addition to quality issues and time constraints, when developing a game, you constantly have to face problems of communication, motivation and personal boundaries. Konrad also talked about how difficult it is for programmers, artists, producers, designers and managers to work together. And also about the common tasks of game development and how the…