by Joseph Leray
Koch Media CEO Klemens Kundratitz says he has “no doubt” that “Metro: Last Light” and the next “Saint’s Row” game will both launch this year. Koch Media’s videogame publishing branch, Deep Silver, bought the rights to both games when they were auctioned off as THQ floundered in bankruptcy.
Both games had 2013 release dates when they were being published by THQ, and Deep Silver plans to stick to that timeline.
Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Kundratitz also explained that Deep Silver was a natural fit for these properties. “We started with quite substantial bid amounts,” he says. “It wasn’t about a free ride. I was a real desire to get those two assets. Were there other things of interest? Yes, but in the end we got exactly what we wanted.”
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