

Starbreeze paid over $30 million for the series, and then Plaion added another €50 million to help out with the game’s development.


Payday 3 is coming over seven years after its initial announcement, which came in 2016 shortly after Overkill Software’s franchise was acquired by Starbreeze Studios that year. Between the two games, Overkill Software also worked on a Walking Dead game simply titled Overkill’s The Walking Dead. Overkill Software did develop a mobile spin-off called Payday: Crime War that launched last year, but it’s been a minute since people were able to pull off the series’ heists on a console. The Payday series has been gone for a while, with Payday 2 launching a full decade ago in 2013 by the time Payday 3 comes out this year.
