Dambuster Studios Explained

Deep Silver Dambuster Studios Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Nottingham, England and owned by Deep Silver, itself part of the Embracer Group-owned Plaion. The studio was founded on 30 July 2014, and was set up initially to take over the development of from Crytek UK; which was closed later that same day, transferring all of its employees to Dambuster.

History

In 2014, Crytek suffered a financial crisis due to internal structuring, and ceased paying wages to the staff members at their UK subsidiary, Crytek UK (formerly known as Free Radical Design). During the development of , Crytek would sell the Homefront IP to Deep Silver and close down Crytek UK. In accordance with British law,^[2] most of Crytek UK's staff members were moved to a new studio founded by Deep Silver called Dambuster Studios to continue Homefront: The Revolutions development. Dambuster Studios is the third Deep Silver in-house development team, following Volition and Fishlabs.^{[3] [4]}

By August 2019, Dambuster had taken over the development on Dead Island 2 from Sumo Digital,^[5] and had 140 employees.^[6]

Games developed

Year	Title	Platform(s)	Note
2016		PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
2021	Chorus	PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S	Assisted Fishlabs
2023	Dead Island 2	PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Notes and References

1. Web site: Embracer Group Annual Report & Sustainability Report 2020 / 2021 . 25 August 2021 . . 12 September 2021 . 25 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210825223946/https://embracer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Embracer-Annual-Report-and-Sustainability-Report-2021.pdf . live.
2. Web site: Futter . Mike . 30 July 2014 . Deep Silver Buys Homefront, UK Staff To Transfer To New Dambuster Studio, Crytek USA Scaled Back . https://web.archive.org/web/20140730173253/http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/07/30/deep-silver-now-owns-homefront-new-studio-handling-development.aspx . dead . 30 July 2014 . . 30 July 2014.
3. Web site: Sarker . Samit . 30 July 2014 . Deep Silver buys Homefront from Crytek, moves Homefront: The Revolution to new studio . . 30 July 2014.
4. Web site: Pereira . Chris . 30 July 2014 . Crytek No Longer Developing Homefront, Sells Rights to Publisher Deep Silver . . 30 July 2014.
5. Web site: Deep Silver Dambuster Studios takes over Dead Island 2 development. 2019-08-14. Gematsu. en-US. 2019-08-14.
6. Web site: THQ Nordic Annual Report 2018/19 . Lars . Wingefors . 27 August 2019 . Cision.