Starbreeze acquires Payday dev Overkill Software

News by Johnny Cullen Contributor

Published on April 19, 2012

Starbreeze has announced it plans to acquire Payday: The Heist studio Overkill Software, pending final approval from shareholders. If approved, Overkill will be brought into the Syndicate studio for current efforts Project Mercury and V13, the latter being worked on in collaboration with Swedish director Josef Fares.

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