Italian Digital Bros. will buy out a third of the publisher Starbreeze. The latter, we recall, has been trying to improve things for more than a year.
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The seller of the Starbreeze share will be Korean SmileGate, the author of Crossfire.
An Italian publisher will buy 30.18% of shares and 40.83% of voting rights from her. Exactly when the deal will happen is unknown, but it will cost Digital Bros. in $21.2 million. At the same time, the nominal value of Strabreeze shares is $39 million, writes Gamesindustry.biz .
Before that, Digital Bros. already owned 7% of Starbreeze and 28.6% of voting rights. She wants to increase the share in order to gain more control over the corporate strategy of Starbreeze.
The publisher is also interested in profit from the popular Payday franchise. The Swedish studio is currently developing the third part of the series. On it, Digital Bros. he expects to earn, according to his calculations, up to $ 40 million.
Note that the publisher has already indirectly participated in the development of the franchise. The Payday 2 version for consoles was published by the “daughter” of Digital Bros., 505 Games.
Starbreeze is a Swedish publisher that has just gone through a restructuring. It lasted a year. During this time, she has sold many of her IP, including System Shock 3, Dead by Daylight and Psychonauts 2. Payday 3, according to Digital Bros., will allow the studio to gain a foothold in the market again. However, the title will not be released until 2022.
Digital Bros. itself it has been in existence since 1989. Until now, she was interested in expanding into Asian markets, including China and Japan. However, it also has offices in the USA, France, Germany and a number of other countries.
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