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Deep Silver expands from Saints Row IV to free-to-play mobile games

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Koch Media’s Deep Silver made its mark last year with console titles like Saints Row IV and Metro: Last Light. But now the German game publisher is expanding into mobile games to take advantage of gaming’s fastest-growing category.

Klemens Kundratitz of Deep Silver
Klemens Kundratitz of Deep Silver

In 2013, Koch Media’s Deep Silver acquired mobile game developer Fishlabs, a Hamburg, Germany-based studio with 52 developers, to expand into mobile. That division is at work on Deep Silver’s first mobile games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.