Starbreeze outline ambitious future line-up

Starbreeze Studios, best known for Payday 2, have outlined their future plans in their latest interim report (covering the finances from July 1, 2014-June 31, 2015). The company is doing well, growing revenue while profits weren't as good as the year before. The fourth quarter (April-June) was very strong thanks in large to the release of Payday 2: Crimewave Edition.

But the year has been full of deals and partnerships where some of the highlights include acquiring InfinitEye VR and launching a publishing initiative (first title is Raid: World War II - which will be debuted at E3 next year). Starbreeze is also taking aim for the Asian market with Payday Mobile. Geminose is a new "toys-to-life" product that is set to launch next year. Storm has been described as Payday in space and has been in pre-production several years now.

This slide highlights some titles we know about and some that are news to us, CEO Bo Andersson Kllint also issued comments on the projects with the interim report (here are some chosen snippets):

"Overkill's The Walking Dead

In an amazing deal with Skybound and Robert Kirkman, Starbreeze has a decade long collaboration set up to build products on The Walking Dead franchise. We are making great progress and an exciting game is taking shape in our Los Angeles and Stockholm studios.

Overkill's The Walking Dead in Virtual Reality

As a separate product in Virtual Reality, this will be a flagship for our VR publishing. Shown to an amazed audience at E3 this year we are set on monetizing early with a world famous brand. Already touring the US in our mobile OTWD RV, the game is building a pre-release audience early on.

Dead By Daylight

Taken as a page out of the PAYDAY digital product book, Dead by Daylight is in full production at our partner studio Behavior. Four against One in a horror game of hide and seek, this creation is highly tailored to be expandable and re-playable. A great product to affiliate with horror brands for expansions and story. We can't wait to release some terror to the masses in 2016.

John Wick in Virtual Reality

Our first VR dedicated publishing collaboration with Lionsgate. We work with the excellent VR companies Grab and WEVR developing a first person shooter experience based on the John Wick movie franchise. Starbreeze will be launching the game on multiple digital platforms and VR headsets. First out for the VIVE Headset from HTC and Valve."

The final title on the slide The Hunt: Assault on Mythos is another first person shooter with 4-player co-op title, but this time it offers combat with mythological creatures in the Bermuda Triangle. Obviously it's still early days on that project as it's in the design phase.

Finally, Bo Andersson Klint also commented on Starbreeze's VR venture where they picked up the Paris-based InfinitEye VR and with them a new VR headset that is called StarVR.

"The project was launched out of our conviction that the new wave of virtual reality (VR) technology is just the beginning of a whole new era of gaming. Our desire is to strive to become one of the premiere companies in our industry in providing VR experiences for any platform.

Within the initiative, we announced the acquisition of renowned, Paris based, VR hardware developer InfinitEye. InfinitEye had for a long time been on our radar, being a small dedicated team with an amazing prototype for the most immersive head mounted VR headset in development. By giving the player a 210-degree uninterrupted field of view in the headset, it allows a full natural immersion in the game or movie. The headset previously marketed as InfinitEye, has now been renamed StarVR and the team brought into the group as Starbreeze Paris.

The potential for gaming, movies, location based VR, medical, simulation, amusement parks and, in the long run, reaching home users on the consumer market, is enormous and exciting."