Starbreeze opens mobile production management offices in Barcelona, PAYDAY Crime War production boosted by BadFly Interactive
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN (January 16, 2017) Starbreeze AB, an independent creator publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products, today announced its opening of a new mobile production management focused offices in Barcelona. Leveraging internal competencies and the rich mobile development culture of the region, the office will manage and supervise internal mobile projects such as Geminose developed by Behaviour and PAYDAY Crime War, now under the care of BadFly Interactive.
“Starbreeze Barcelona will closely monitor the wrap up of Geminose and also focus its efforts on PAYDAY: Crime War. After a due diligence of the progress on the mobile version of our beloved PAYDAY franchise, we found a lack of focus on our product. As we want to see this game realized as badly as many of our fans, we’ve moved production to another studio, BadFly Interactive. As part of a work-for-hire partnership, BadFly have accelerated the development considerably”, said Bo Andersson-Klint, Starbreeze CEO.
Release date for PAYDAY: Crime War and Geminose will be announced at a later date.
The Barcelona studio, starting with 6 employees, will additionally focus on further developing Starbreeze existing IPs into the mobile space.
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For more information, please contact:
Maeva Sponbergs, EVP of Communication and Head of Investor Relations, Starbreeze AB
Tel: +46(0)8-209 208, email: ir@starbreeze.com
About Starbreeze
Starbreeze is an independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products. With studios in Stockholm, Paris, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Brussels, the company creates games and other virtual reality entertainment products, based on proprietary design and licensed content. Starbreeze's most recent games include PAYDAY 2®, John Wick VR shooter and upcoming survival co-op FPS OVERKILL’s The Walking Dead. Under its publishing initiative, Starbreeze has together with Canadian studio Behaviour Digital successfully launched horror thriller Dead by Daylight.
Starbreeze has set out to develop truly immersive virtual reality experiences, by integrating software and hardware in its StarVR® head mounted display, which is produced together with Acer, displaying a unique field of view and a mission to bring top-end VR to large audiences. Together with IMAX, Starbreeze aspires to dominate the location based VR market with the IMAX VR centers. The first IMAX VR center opened in Los Angeles in January 2017.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Starbreeze's shares are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm First North Premier under the tickers STAR A and STAR B with the ISIN-codes SE0007158928 (A share) and SE0005992831 (B share). Remium Nordic is the company's Certified Adviser. For more information, please visit http://www.starbreeze.com, http://www.starvr.com, http://www.overkillsoftware.com
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