Yager Development

Yager Development
Private
Industry Video game industry
Founded 1999
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Products Yager
Spec Ops: The Line
Number of employees
130+[1]
Website Official website

Yager Development is an independent German video game developer founded in 1999 by 5 developers and artists. They are most known for developing Yager in 2003, Spec Ops: The Line in 2012 with 2K Games. They later began work on Dead Island 2 together with Deep Silver, however Deep Silver cut ties with Yager in 2015.[2] As a result, Yager Development's division, Yager Productions GmbH, filed for insolvency in July 2015.[3]

Spec Ops: The Line has won multiple awards, including Machinima's 2012 Inside Gaming Awards for the Best Narrative.[4]

Games developed

Title Year Genre Platform Publisher
Yager 2003 Combat flight simulator Xbox, Win THQ
Aerial Strike: Low Altitude - High Stakes 2005 Combat flight simulator Win DreamCatcher Interactive and THQ
Spec Ops: The Line 2012 Third-person shooter Win, PS3, X360, OS X, Linux 2K Games
Dreadnought 2016 Space flight simulator Win Grey Box

References

  1. "YAGER". Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. Futter, Mike (July 14, 2015). "Deep Silver Drops Yager As Developer Of Dead Island 2". Game Informer. Retrieved July 15, 2015.
  3. Hurley, Leon (July 29, 2015). "Yager's fine. It's just the Dead Island 2 bit that's shut down". GamesRadar. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  4. "Best Narrative - Spec Ops: The Line (Inside Gaming Awards 2012)". 6 June 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2013.

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