Das Team hinter dem von Kritikern gelobten Echtzeitstrategiespiel (RTS) Iron Harvest 1920+ war mit gleich vier Auszeichnungen in den Kategorien “Bestes Deutsches Spiel 2020“, „Bestes Game Design“, „Bester Sound“ und „Bestes Studio“ der große Gewinner bei der jährlichen Preisverleihung des „Deutschen Entwicklerpreises 2020“.
„Es ist eine große Ehre und ein tolle Leistung für das gesamte Team, so viel Anerkennung für die harte Arbeit zu bekommen. Iron Harvest ist das größte Projekt, welches das Studio bisher angepackt hat, umso schöner ist es zu sehen wie gut es angenommen wird“, sagt Jan Thysen Kreativdirektor bei King Art Games.
"Bereits der erste Eindruck von Iron Harvest hat uns begeistert, und das Team von KING Art Games hat uns überzeugt, dass mit Iron Harvest ein außergewöhnliches Spiel entsteht," kommentiert Klemens Kundratitz, Managing Director bei Koch Media. "Die nun erhaltenen Auszeichnungen im Rahmen des Deutschen Entwicklerpreises 2020 sind hoch verdient und wir als globaler Publisher freuen uns zudem, dass es nicht nur ein großartiges deutsches Spiel ist, sondern im globalen Wettbewerb erfolgreich ist. Wir gratulieren dem ganzen Iron Harvest-Team, sowohl für den Erfolgs ihres Herzensprojekts als auch als Studio."
Iron Harvest 1920+ wurde am 1. September 2020 veröffentlicht und ist auf Steam, GOG und dem Epic Store erhältlich - mit anhaltendem Support und regelmäßigen Inhaltserweiterungen. Mit dem ersten DLC, und den Konsolenversionen am Horizont, freut sich das Bremer Studio auf den bisherigen Erfolgen des Spiels aufzubauen.
„Wir freuen uns wirklich auf unsere erste große Spielerweiterung (DLC), welche bisher ungesehene Elemente und Raffinessen zum Spiel hinzufügen wird – the sky is the limit“, sagt Executive Producer Julian Strzoda.
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Koch Media is a leading producer and distributor of digital entertainment products (software, games and films). The company's own publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe and the USA. The Koch Media group has more than 18 years of experience in the digital media distribution business, and has risen to become the number one distributor in Europe. It has also formed strategic alliances with numerous games and software publishers: Bethesda, Capcom, Kaspersky Labs, NC SOFT, Sega, Square Enix and Tecmo-Koei, etc. in various European countries. With Headquarters in Planegg near Munich/Germany, Koch Media owns branches in Germany, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Nordic regions, Benelux and the USA. www.kochmedia.com
The group’s publishing activities, marketing and distribution extend throughout Europe, America, Australia and Asia. Koch Media has more than 25 years of experience in the digital media business and has risen to become a leading global publishing partner. The Koch Media Group runs a multi-label strategy with fully owned publishing units such as Deep Silver, Milestone, Vertigo Games and Ravenscourt which publish games for consoles, PC and VR platforms across all physical and digital channels.
Additionally, as global publishing partner Koch Media has formed long-term multi-national publishing collaborations with numerous game publishers including Bethesda, Capcom, Codemasters, Konami, Koei Tecmo, Sega, Square Enix, Warner Bros and many others. With its parent company in Höfen, Austria, and the Publishing HQ in Munich, Germany, Koch Media owns local publishing companies in Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Australia, the United States as well as Japan and Hong Kong.
The Koch Media Group owns seven game development studios: Deep Silver Volition (Champaign, IL / USA), Deep Silver Dambuster Studios (Nottingham / UK), Deep Silver Fishlabs (Hamburg / Germany), Warhorse Studios (Prague / Czech Republic), Milestone (Milan / Italy), Voxler (Paris / France) and Vertigo Games (Rotterdam /The Netherlands). Additionally, the Koch Media Group collaborates with numerous independent development studios around the world.
Part of the Koch Media Group is also Koch Films, a European independent film distributor with business primarily in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy as a cinema, TV, online and Home Entertainment distributor. The Koch Media Group also owns Gaya Entertainment, a leading video game merchandise company in Munich, Germany, and the Quality Assurance Facility in Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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