The company Starbreeze has announced its financial results for the first half of 2024. We have highlighted the key points from the report.

The Swedish company Starbreeze announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2023, which ended on June 30. Its revenue increased by 36% due to the demand for PAYDAY 2.

In 2018, the Swedish company Starbreeze was on the verge of bankruptcy. To avoid this, it was forced to restructure, sell some assets and cut costs significantly. Starbreeze managed to solve its financial problems only five years later.

Starbreeze promises to help developers with marketing, community management and financing.

This is 96.5% of the revenue of the entire Starbreeze company. Compared to last year, sales of the series fell, but only slightly — by 9%.

Swedish Starbreeze reported for the first quarter of 2022. It didn’t go well. All key financial indicators have fallen compared to last year.

Starbreeze shared its financial results for the fourth quarter and the whole of 2021. The company is still not making a profit, but its losses are gradually decreasing. She also announced that the revenue of the PAYDAY shooter series reached the billion Swedish kronor mark ($107.3 million) — it took 10 years.

Koch Media, a subsidiary of Embracer Group, decided to support the Payday 3 shooter. She has already signed a deal with Swedish Starbreeze and promised to allocate approximately €50 million for the game.

The troubles of the Swedish Starbreeze do not end there. She planned to find a publisher for Payday 3, but negotiations with partners were disrupted by COVID-19. Now Starbreeze needs almost $27 million to save the situation.

The System Shock 3 team was disbanded, the project remained unfinished. And it seems that the future of the OtherSide Entertainment studio itself is under threat.

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.

The restructuring at Starbreeze will lead to the creation of two new companies. They will be given the remaining assets and employees that are related to the publisher’s core business.

Starbreeze has extended the restructuring period for the third time. The Swedish company was given three months to complete it.

This is the third time Starbreeze has asked to extend its restructuring period. It seems that it is not easy for the company to stay afloat.

In the coming weeks, Rockstar Games will close the deal to acquire the Indian studio Dhruva Interactive. Now the developer is owned by the Swedish publisher Starbreeze AB.

The company earned several million dollars on Overkill’s The Walking Dead, but it didn’t help.

The former executive director of Starbreeze Bo Andersson Klint (Bo Andersson Klint) did not participate in insider trading. This is the conclusion reached by the Swedish State Administration for Combating Economic Crime, writes Variety.

Starbreeze stated that after the restructuring, it will focus exclusively on the development and publication of video games. This means that it can abolish its VR divisions.

The Stockholm office of the publisher of Overkill’s The Walking Dead and Payday 2 was raided by the police. It is reported that one of the employees of Starbreeze has been detained.