What is Techland PL?
Techland Publishing. Website. techland.net. Techland S.A. is a Polish video game developer and publisher founded in 1991 by Paweł Marchewka. It developed Call of Juarez (2006) and its prequel Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood (2009), as well as Dead Island (2011) and Dying Light (2015).
Where is Techland based?
Poland
Techland is a Wrocław-based company established in 1991. Nowadays, they are one of the best-selling producers of high-budget games in Poland. At the beginning of the 1990s Techland mostly focused on distributing games by foreign developers and producing simple programs and video games.
Is Techland owned by Microsoft?
Techland not being acquired by Microsoft or any other publisher, to remain independent.
What has Techland made?
Games developed
| Year | Title | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Dead Island: Riptide | Action role-playing, survival horror |
| 2013 | Call of Juarez: Gunslinger | First-person shooter |
| 2014 | Hellraid: The Escape | Action-adventure, hack and slash |
| 2015 | Dying Light | Action role-playing, survival horror |
Did Techland make Dead Island?
Dead Island is a 2011 survival-horror action role-playing video game developed by Techland and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Is Techland public?
After twenty years of being “a limited liability company”, Techland has changed its company details to “Techland S.A.” “S.A.” is short for “Spółka Akcyjna”, which means a publicly-traded company. It confirms Techland’s legal form as a public company.
Does Techland own Deep Silver?
Techland made two Dead Island games for Deep Silver: Dead Island, and standalone expansion Dead Island: Riptide. Riptide wasn’t brilliant but again it wasn’t awful. But a month after Riptide’s April 2013 release, Techland announced a new zombie-killing game called Dying Light.
Why did Techland leave Deep Silver?
So why was Techland kicked to the curb? According to Maciej Binkowski, a game designer at Techland, the answer is simple. Following the lukewarm reception of the first two games, Deep Silver decided to hand over development to another studio.
Are Dead Island and dying light connected?
Made prior to Dying Light, many of Dying Light’s gameplay aspects are similar to Dead Island’s, some have considered Dying Light as a “spiritual successor” to the Dead Island franchise, even though no actual connection has been made by Techland between the two series.
Who owns Dead Island IP?
Deep Silver
Dead Island (series)
| Dead Island | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Action role-playing, survival horror |
| Developer(s) | Techland, Dambuster Studios, Fatshark, Stunlock Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Deep Silver |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One |
