Deep Silver Archive

  • Swag Report: Battle vs. Chess and Nail’d T-Shirts, Get Yours Soon

    Swag Report: Battle vs. Chess and Nail’d T-Shirts, Get Yours Soon

    A pack of promotional t-shirts for Battle vs. Chess and Nail’d arrived at VGB HQ today, courtesy of SouthPeak Games / Deep Silver. What do you think? Like ’em? Cool, because we’ll be giving some away very, very soon. Stay tuned…

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  • Review: Risen (Xbox 360)

    Review: Risen (Xbox 360)

    The track record has not been very good for console ports of PC-first RPGs. Divinity II comes to mind first, as its Xbox 360 port is terrible from what I’ve been able to endure, and as much as I loved it, even the console versions […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: GDC 2010 Blowout

    Screenshot Saturday: GDC 2010 Blowout

    My inbox was flooded with screenshot updates from GDC this week, and it’s taken me the better part of the past two hours compiling them into the 24 galleries posted below. You’ll find loads of screens for all the new PlayStation Move games, and other […]

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  • Screenshot Saturday: New Game Edition

    Screenshot Saturday: New Game Edition

    This weekend’s edition of Screenshot Saturday is all (well mostly) about games that were just announced this week, including Namco Bandai’s The Last Guardian-esque PS3 and Xbox 360 title Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, the surprise iPhone/PSP remakes of cult PS2 action game The Red […]

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  • Risen Xbox 360 Launch Trailer

    Risen Xbox 360 Launch Trailer

    Wizarbox’s Xbox 360 port of Piranha Bytes’ PC RPG Risen arrived at retail game shops this week. I’m only a couple hours in, but already I can confirm that it is a billion times better than the 360 port of Divinity II. I’ll get to […]

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  • Review: Mytran Wars

    Review: Mytran Wars

    It is a storyline that has been tapped many times before: a few hundred years in the future mankind has exhausted our resources and is depending on resources from another planet to provide humans with a future. From there you get the basis of the […]

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  • Review: Risen (PC)

    Review: Risen (PC)

    A recent trend in games has been altering the naming structure to try to either dissociate with older games or mask how many games have preceded the release. Recent examples include the indeterminate Wolfenstein, the third Red Faction game being subtitled Guerrilla, and the removal […]

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  • Risen Teaser Combo

    Risen Teaser Combo

    The countdown is on for Risen‘s PC launch later this week, and Deep Silver is doing some last-minute buzz building with this final pair of cinematic teaser trailers. As if Piranha Bytes fans really needed anything more to fuel their anticipation for this one!

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  • The Making of Risen

    The Making of Risen

    The Piranha Bytes crew sits down to chat about the making of their latest RPG Risen in this informative 10-minute interview video. It’s a long one, so I’ll just step back and let you watch.

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  • Risen Goes Gold on PC, Gets Pushed to 2010 on Xbox 360

    Risen Goes Gold on PC, Gets Pushed to 2010 on Xbox 360

    Much like the launch of Sacred 2 it seems, the planned simultaneous fall launch of Piranha Bytes’ PC and Xbox 360 RPG Risen has been broken up. The good news is the PC version has gone gold and is all ready to start shipping out […]

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