Tag: Koch Media
News Hunt: Showdown Banishes PS4 Version, Boasts Unreal Engine 5 Visuals on PS5
Now Hunt: Showdown 1896 is my best friend
Hunt: Showdown has banished its PS4 version to the dustbin of history, launching the Unreal Engine 5-enhanced PS5 iteration called Hunt: Showdown 1896. In addition, it brings the new Mammon's Gulch map for players to get lost in, boasting some 16 unique compounds scattered across its vast alpine biome. In...
News Hunt: Showdown Ending Support on PS4, Will Be PS5 Only from August
Won't be playable at all on PS4
Crytek has confirmed plans to end support for Hunt: Showdown on PS4 from 15th August 2024, at which point the title will only be playable on PS5 and the last-gen version taken offline. The move allows the developer to take advantage of an engine upgrade to Cryengine 5.11, and a free PS4 to PS5 upgrade will be offered...
Feature Koch Media Announces New Publishing Label, Prime Matter, with 12 Upcoming Games
Here's everything you need to know
Koch Media isn't a well-known name like EA, Activision, or Ubisoft, but it's a major player in the gaming space. Part of Embracer Group, a conglomerate that also includes THQ Nordic, the company is a leading European distributor and publisher, with its own suite of IPs you'll probably have played before. Under the...
News Saints Row, Metro Publisher Reveals Showcase for 11th June
Koch Media knows something we don't
Koch Media, the owner of franchises such as Saints Row, Dead Island, Metro, and TimeSplitters, will be hosting its first-ever digital showcase in collaboration with Summer Game Fest. The event will take place on Friday, 11th June 2021 at 8pm BST / 9pm CEST / 12pm PT / 3pm ET. It has been teased that "more than a...
News THQ Nordic, Koch Media Owner Has a Ludicrous 118 Games in Development
69 are unannounced
We've reported time and time again about how ridiculously huge Embracer Group is getting, but this takes the biscuit. The company which owns publishers including THQ Nordic and Koch Media alongside devs such as Deep Silver, Saber Interactive, and Milestone has more than 118 games in development right now. Yes, Embracer Group has...
News Instead of Buying IPs, THQ Nordic Is Now Swapping Them
Red Faction departs
Well, this is a bit of a strange situation. THQ Nordic, a publisher who over the past couple of years has been buying up the rights to gaming IPs left, right, and centre has now decided to start swapping them with another company. Koch Media is the other party in question, with the two agreeing on terms that will see the transfer...
Review Hunt: Showdown - A Monster That Needs More Meat On Its Bones
"I'll hold them off, and Bayou some time"
A truly monstrous take on multiplayer shooters, Hunt: Showdown finally makes its way to the PlayStation 4 having already set hairs on edge elsewhere. Despite being in need of some more combat, the game is an unsettling experience that melds player-versus-player and player-versus-environment content to offer...
Interview Hunt: Showdown Is Set to Be One of the Most Intense PvP Titles on PS4
The true Monster Hunter?
Online multiplayer games come in all shapes and sizes nowadays, but one that has caught our eye on a regular basis as it makes a name for itself on PC is Hunt: Showdown. The PvP experience is finally making its way to PlayStation 4 in just a couple of weeks time, bringing an intense search for clues while either avoiding...
News Hunt: Showdown Finally Comes to PS4 on 18th February
Join the hunt
The PlayStation 4 version of Hunt: Showdown really has been a long time coming. Announced for Sony's console back in June 2019, it has spent a number of years in early access on PC where it harboured a community in love with the tense co-op dealings of having to track down monsters using clues while watching your back for other...
News Koch Media Is 'Exploring Ways to Bring TimeSplitters Back'
Future perfect?
A new TimeSplitters game is very much on the cards -- it seems it's just a matter of how THQ Nordic and Koch Media go about bringing the series back from the dead. The last we heard about TimeSplitters was that its co-creator, Steve Ellis, joined the publisher to work on the return of the series. In a
News Sounds Like It's Time for TimeSplitters 4 as Koch Media Acquires Licence
Future perfect
The TimeSplitters series was beloved back on the PlayStation 2, but it sadly fell by the wayside as Free Radical Design began to struggle. The licence for the franchise has rested with Crytek for some years, but nothing has been done with it, despite vocal fans calling out for it, and even attempting to forge remake themselves...
News THQ Nordic Now Owns Metro, Dead Island, Saints Row, More in New Acquisition
Publisher purchases Koch Media
THQ Nordic has felt like a bit of a B-team player for a while, re-releasing a lot of its back catalogue and slowly accumulating more and more IPs. It seemed that no one was really paying them much attention, but that may be about to change; the publisher has just made a serious acquisition in the purchase of Koch Media...
Review NOW That's What I Call Sing 2 (PS4)
Come and get it if you really want it
NOW That's What I Call Sing 2 is really only a game for people who like modern pop music. Only one or two of the 30 songs on the soundtrack were made before 2016, and even then they're five years old at their oldest; the fact that one of these songs is 'Sexy and I Know It' by LMFAO is enough to mark this game...
Review NOW That's What I Call Sing (PS4)
Grand(e)
SingStar PS4 divided opinions when it first launched – it was missing a lot of important features, and seemed rushed out to capitalise on the success of Sony's new system. NOW That's What I Call Sing, a game that many of you probably haven't even heard of, aims to capitalise on the otherwise near-empty console karaoke market, and it does...
Rumour Dead Island Could Be the Next PS4 Remaster That No One Asked For
Moan like the undead
We can't wait to see what the comments section thinks about this one. According to a South African retailer, there's going to be a Dead Island: Definitive Edition landing on PlayStation 4 at some point in the future. Obviously, retail listings are never concrete evidence of an upcoming, unannounced release, but they're usually a...
News Fairytale Fights To Get Free DLC For Those Who Register The Game Within The First 90 Days
If you've bought Fairytale Fights and you want to get $15 worth of free DLC, better get yourself over to Fairytale Fights' website and register your game
If you do so within the first 90 days of release you'll get four "new playable characters" and three new "PvP arenas". It seems a bit crafty DLC being ready this early, but, hey...
News Look, It's Prison Break In Polygonal Form
Chances are you know all about Prison Break on the Telly
But have you seen anything from the game yet? Well, you have now, because Deep Silver have just released some screenshots from the game, you can view the full set here. At a stretch, we'd suggest the game is probably about prisons and breaks - presumably of the Kit-Kat kind.
