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‘Dying Light’ Creator Techland is Becoming a Publisher

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Techland has been enormously successful as as a game developer, especially in recent years. The company could fill Scrooge McDuck’s vault with the money they continue to make off the idea that lots of folks will want to play an open-world survival game about recruiting friends to beat rotten zombie ass with impossibly cool weapons that defy science in truly satisfying ways.

It should’ve been downhill after the first Dead Island, and though it saddens me to say it, I highly doubt the series will recover after Deep Silver ran it into the ground several times over. Meanwhile, Techland hasn’t stopped alchemically transmuting the undead hordes into mountains of cash, and they’ll continue doing that right up until the deal I assume they made with the devil finally expires and they go back to being pre-2011 Techland.

Dying Light will have a big role in the company’s future, but its inevitable sequel is only part of it. The rest has to do with their following Telltale Games by expanding into global publishing.

If Dying Light is what Dead Island should’ve been, then Techland is shaping up to be the innovative, forward-thinking publisher Deep Silver almost was. A press release detailed their publishing efforts that’ll include two “major multiplatform titles” and four smaller, digital titles every year, all while “scanning the market for opportunities.”

According to the release, their first publishing deal will be revealed “soon.” E3 is soon (June 14-16), so there’s a chance they’ll have something for us in a couple weeks. They’d announce it now, but it takes awhile for them to climb out of all that gold.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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