In 2019, Payday 2 writer Starbreeze Studios was on the brink of going below. The studio was going through an absence of money on-hand to maintain the corporate working, inflicting management to dump belongings to numerous firms to assist save Starbreeze Studios.
Quick-forward to the current day, and Starbreeze Studios is in a significantly better place, introducing a model new studio within the UK whereas persevering with work on Payday 3. In an interview with IGN, Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren spoke concerning the new UK studio, and shared an replace on the upcoming sequel.
“[Payday 3]’s coming alongside rather well. I am tremendous enthusiastic about telling extra about it, however we won’t at this time limit,” Sjögren stated. “We have not launched every other info [other] than we are literally releasing it in 2023, however we’ll and it is going to be a variety of enjoyable.”
Sjögren additionally stated Starbreeze is looking for a co-publisher for Payday 3. Developer Overkill Software program and Starbreeze have not shared a lot else concerning the sequel because it was confirmed to be in growth in 2021. We all know the sport can be set in a “residing, monumental illustration” of New York Metropolis in response to recreation director Erik Wonnevi.
The swap to Unreal Engine may very well be a giant one for Payday 3, as Sjögren famous that the builders, “had a really tough scenario in Payday 2 the place now we have not been capable of preserve our console variations of Payday 2 as much as pair with the PC model. And naturally, an engine like Unreal actually offers you that chance to concentrate on making the sport somewhat than the know-how.”
Starbreeze opens a brand new UK studio
In the meantime, Starbreeze’s new studio within the UK will work on tasks for 2 newly-acquired IPs. Together with this, Sjögren stated Starbreeze is “undoubtedly taking a look at” the opportunity of buying extra IPs for the corporate.
The UK studio can be helmed by Cinder Cone co-founders Tancred Dyke-Wells and Lawrence Bishop. The 2 beforehand launched a recreation referred to as Skeleton Crew earlier this yr, and have expertise engaged on Firewatch, Nintendo Artwork Academy, Battalion Wars, and extra. Sjögren stated the UK made sense for Starbreeze as a result of the corporate was missing builders from the area.
“And one of many hubs that we had been lacking was UK. I felt like there is a good alternative to attach extra folks from the good, actually superior UK growth scene to Starbreeze and I feel opening an workplace there’ll actually assist out.”
With Payday 3 and different upcoming tasks, Starbreeze Studios will proceed to concentrate on live-service platforms for its video games. As Sjögren advised us, “If we do not ship extra and new content material in a swift foundation after the discharge, we undoubtedly have made a giant mistake.”
Logan Plant is a contract author for IGN protecting online game and leisure information. He has over six years of expertise within the gaming trade with bylines at IGN, Nintendo Wire, Swap Participant Journal, and Lifewire. Discover him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.
