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.
