The history of Swedish publisher/developer Starbreeze and their continued floundering attempts to stay afloat are long and complicated. The troubles go back far before where we find ourselves today though. As the company sees millions of dollars in failed investments and projects going out the door, with the most notable of these being the maligned
Anyone who’s paying attention knows that Swedish company Starbreeze is in trouble. OTWD (Overkill’s The Walking Dead) has been an issue from the beginning. With the massive amount of production issues, and a ton of financial losses in 2018 and previous years, the company has been on the rocks for a while. The company lost
Starbreeze and Overkill have had a lot of trouble over the years. Since their early success with The Chronicles of Riddick and a few other games, the intertwined companies have failed to capture much success. The only real exception to this being the pair of excellent shooter titles in the PayDay franchise. So it seemed
So it turns out that Starbreeze is still having trouble. The company admitted to selling off the publishing rights for System Shock 3 to another company, in this case it’s OtherSide Entertainment. The company published a statement on its website indicating the change. Starbreeze’s acting CEO, Mikael Nermark, said that the decision was ‘mutually agreed’
According to a new, and extremely thorough, report from Eurogamer, Overkill’s The Walking Dead was doomed before it even got started. The reasons for the ultimate failure of the game and subsequent collapse of Starbreeze are many, but we will attempt to go through some of them here. One of the biggest issues with Overkill’s
The saga of the breakdown of Starbreeze and their subsidiaries just got a lot weirder. After the financial failure that was Overkill’s The Walking Dead, the company has been working to recover and keep their head above water. The team has also continued supporting The Walking Dead, as they just released the first batch of
Starbreeze has unveiled the next phase of content for the recently released Overkill’s The Walking Dead. This new batch of DLC will take on an episodic structure, with each episode tying into the larger narrative by adding in new missions and gameplay elements to the cooperative zombie shooter. The game unfortunately needs an injection of
It would seem that things are even worse than we could have predicted over at Starbreeze Studios in Sweden. The company already detailed that poor sales from their latest game have left them in a difficult bind, but things are worse than they appear apparently. The company has admitted that they will be out of
Starbreeze Studio’s board of directors has announced that revenue projections for Overkill’s The Walking Dead have fallen short of expectations. This means that the company will have to reduce costs over the next year to keep the company running smoothly. The official press release details how the company is delaying reporting some revenue in order
It looks like Overkill’s The Walking Dead has hit even more issues. The Ps4 and Xbox One versions of the game will miss their November 6, 2018 launch in North America and November 8, 2018 release in Europe, due to issues with polish and a dispute with the console rights holder. This revelation comes from
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