The release of Payday 3 has not exactly gone to plan. While this was supposed to be a big return for the co-op heist series, the game launched with various issues and it seems players are quickly dropping it in favour of returning to Payday 2. We're roughly one month …
Read More »Starbreeze financial situation improves but search for Payday 3 publisher hits a wall
Starbreeze has been working on getting back to good financial footing over the last year and while it is still an ongoing process, things appear to be going well. After restarting Payday 2 development late last year, the publisher's losses have begun to slow down. For Q1 2020, ending on …
Read More »Financial difficulties and staff cuts force Overkill to drop Payday 2 on consoles
Overkill might be back to working on new content for Payday 2 on PC but the same can't be said for the other versions of the game. This week, the studio announced that it would no longer be maintaining update parity across platforms, instead choosing to primarily focus on PC. …
Read More »Payday 2 returns with Silk Road update and new DLCs
Over the last year or so, Starbreeze has been in a rough financial position, leading to the loss of The Walking Dead video game license, a publisher restructuring and the dropping of StarVR. Prior to this, Payday 2 development had officially ended, but that changed a couple of weeks ago …
Read More »Payday 2 development resumes amid Starbreeze financial issues
Over the last year or so, Starbreeze has been in a rough financial position, leading to the loss of The Walking Dead video game license, a publisher restructuring and the dropping of StarVR. Prior to this, Payday 2 development had officially ended, but Overkill will be returning to the co-op …
Read More »You can grab Payday 2 for free on Steam right now
If you are in need of a new multiplayer game to play over the weekend, then it looks like Overkill has you covered as the studio is giving away five million copies of Payday 2 for free. All you have to do is head to the game's Steam Store page …
Read More »Payday 2 is getting an Ultimate Edition, new H3H3-themed DLC also on the way
The folks over at Overkill have been very busy lately as this week, the company announced that it will soon be releasing a PayDay 2 Ultimate Edition. This will come with the base game and all DLC, with all future DLC being free. Well, with the exception of one character …
Read More »Payday 2 developer set to open VR Arcade with StarVR headsets
Starbreeze studios, the co-developer of Payday 2, has announced that it will be creating a brand new VR Arcade in Los Angeles, utilising its in-house developed Star VR headset as the HMD of choice. Set to open sometime in the Spring or Summer of 2016, the facility will be using …
Read More »Overkill apologises over recent Payday 2 updates
These last few weeks haven't been great for Overkill Studios. The team decided to silently put microtransactions in to the game, which caused a lot of uproar amongst players. Then things got worse when additional bonuses were added to the new microtransaction system, which caused the game's Steam Forum mods …
Read More »Payday 2’s microtransactions just got worse, forum mods quit in protest
The Payday 2 player base has been in uproar since a recent update to the game introduced microtransactions, despite the fact that Overkill Studios at one point said that they would never resort to them. These premium crates can grant gameplay bonuses to players, which many have taken issue with. …
Read More »Apparently PayDay 2 needs microtransactions to survive
Over the last week, Overkill Studios have found themselves in quite a bit of trouble after introducing microtransactions to PayDay 2. The studio didn't offer any official comment until the weekend, when Overkill's Almir Listo responded to questions in a Reddit AMA, explaining that PayDay 2 needed the extra revenue …
Read More »PayDay 2 developers attempt to compromise on microtransactions
Overkill Studios got in to quite a bit of trouble with its community late last week when it decided to introduce microtransactions to Payday 2, completely out of the blue. Fans of the game were quick to call the studio out, particularly since it had said on two separate occasions that …
Read More »Payday 2 developers anger community with microtransactions
Payday 2 developers, Overkill Studios, have angered their community by implementing stat-changing microtransactions in to the heist shooter, despite previously saying that they wouldn't. People were a little worried that Payday would go down this road a while back, though at the time the game's producer reassured players that this …
Read More »Payday 2 to be supported for two more years
Overkill has announced that it plans to support its popular Heist title, Payday 2, for two more years, before moving on to a new game. This means that Payday 2 will keep getting new missions right up until 2017. That’s a lot of support, especially considering that the game launched …
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