Yager Development

Yager Development GmbH
Private
Industry Video game industry
Founded December 19, 1999 (1999-12-19)
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Products Yager
Spec Ops: The Line
Number of employees
130+[1]
Website Official website

Yager Development GmbH 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.com'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, PlayStation 4 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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