Now with development on Payday 2 starting up again, Starbreeze and Overkill Software have unveiled their new plans for the co-op FPS, which includes a free update, Silk Road, and three DLCs. With the Silk Road update, all players will get access to a new cosmetic system that lets you choose both the mask and […]
Starbreeze is selling a studio to Rockstar Games as it continues to restructure in an attempt to avoid shutting down. Dhruva Interactive, an art production studio that’s worked on Halo, Forza Horizon and Payday 2, was acquired by Starbreeze for $8.5 million and is being sold to Rockstar for $7.9 million. For that $7.9 million, […]
Payday 3 is full development right now, but Overkill Software is playing with its predecessor Payday 2. Its publisher Starbreeze announced the shooter will receive VR support later this year. As the teaser video below demonstrates, those playing in VR won’t be restricted to playing with other headset wearers — not sure if that is good […]
Starbreeze announced the acquisition of Nozon, a Belgian visual effects studio that created PresenZ, a sophisticated visual effects tool that adds six degrees of freedom (6DoF) to cinema quality visual effects for VR. It’s no secret that Starbreeze is betting heavy on VR. The company announced during E3 2015 that it had acquired InfiniteEye and […]
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Acer and Starbreeze announced that they are shipping the first run of StarVR HMDs to IMAX in preparation for the IMAX VR Center, which is set to open in LA before the year’s end. Starbreeze first announced the StarVR HMD to the world during E3 2015. The company brought a trailer full of StarVR HMDs […]
On May 16, Acer and Starbreeze Studios revealed that the two companies were in talks about a manufacturing partnership for the upcoming StarVR HMD. The board of directors from both companies have since approved a joint venture that will see the two companies share resources to accelerate development of the StarVR HMD. Acer and Starbreeze […]
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It’s been said time and again, you have to experience VR to understand what the excitement is about. Starbreeze, the creator of the upcoming StarVR HMD, and publisher of Payday 2 and the upcoming The Walking Dead Game from Overkill, believes in this concept enough to open up an arcade so that everyone can experience […]
Last year, Overkill released John Wick DLC for Payday 2 that brought the Keanu Reeves action-thriller into the game with a new playable character, weapons, and three—three!—pairs of sunglasses. Now the studio’s got something very similar in the works for Point Break. Unlike its predecessor, however, this DLC is not based on the Keanu Reeves […]
The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of acclaimed indie adventure game Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons will launch on August 12 through digital channels. A physical release in Europe will follow on September 4, though plans for a physical version in the United States have not been announced. A Tale of Two Sons […]
Payday developer Overkill Software’s cooperative first-person shooter based on The Walking Dead will release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, the developer’s parent company Starbreeze has announced. 505 Games will publish the shooter, giving Starbreeze for a $10 million licensing fee and royalties on console sales. “We believe that ‘Overkill’s The Walking Dead,’ represents […]