Deep Silver Dambuster Studios Ltd. is a British

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based in

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, England. The studio was set up by

Deep Silver Deep Silver is an Austrian video game publisher and a division of Plaion. Eugenio Vitale serves as the director of games development for Deep Silver. History Deep Silver was announced in November 2002, with their first release to be '' Anarc ...

on 30 July 2014 to take over the development of '' Homefront: The Revolution'' from

Crytek UK Free Radical Design Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Nottingham. Founded by David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate in Stoke-on-Trent in April 1999, they are best known for their ''TimeSplitters'' series of games. ...

, which was closed later that same day, transferring all of its employees to Dambuster Studios.

History

Dambuster Studios was founded on 30 July 2014. Its predecessor,

(formerly known as Free Radical Design), was a subsidiary of Crytek. Crytek in 2014 suffered a financial crisis due to internal structuring, and was unable to pay wages to the staff members at the UK studio. The company at that time was working on '' Homefront: The Revolution'', but Crytek decided to sell the franchise to

and closed down the studio. Most of its staff members were moved to Dambuster Studios, a studio founded by Deep Silver, in accordance with

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, to continue ''Homefront: The Revolution''s development. Dambuster Studios is the third Deep Silver in-house development team, following Volition and Fishlabs. By August 2019, Dambuster had taken over the development on '' Dead Island 2'' from Sumo Digital, and had 140 employees.

Games developed

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