Former Ubisoft executive producer Stefan Delacroix (Stéphane Decroix) has been appointed head of game development at the Swedish company Starbreeze. At Ubisoft, Delacroix worked on the Watch Dogs franchise, and at Starbreeze he will be responsible for the development of The Walking Dead, Crossfire, Payday and other titles.

Swedish developer and publisher Starbreeze suffered losses of $22.2 million in EBITDA in 2017.

The lead designer of Civilization IV, Soren Johnson, and the art director of the Civilization V project, Dorian Newcomb, have been developing a new strategy called 10 Crowns.

After the failure of RAID: World War 2, Swedish Starbreeze Studios sold 20 million of its shares worth $ 30 million.

Swedish studio Starbreeze Studios closed the 3rd quarter of this year with a loss of $4.1 million before taxes. The company’s management says that the decline is temporary and is associated with business expansion.

The author of Payday became the publisher and the largest investor of Psychonauts 2, Timothy Schafer’s new game.

Starbreeze Studios acquired a 90.5% stake in Indian outsourcing studio Dhruva Interactive for $8.5 million.

Cmune received $1.4 million from the publisher and developer of Starbreeze. With this money, the studio will release a mobile version of the Payday shooter.

One of the main releases of 2013 – the sad Nordic platformer Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from Starbreeze Studios – will appear on iOS, Android and Windows Phone for Catholic Christmas.