Starbreeze making a downloadable game

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 20 May, 2011

Project Red Lime increasing scope.

Swedish developer Starbreeze is making a new downloadable game.

"The development of a downloadable game continued during the third quarter," read Starbreeze's financial report (translated for Eurogamer by Eurogamer.se).

"At the moment it is still self-financed. A smaller team also worked with adapting to and learning the licensed Unreal Engine which will be used as a technical base for all Starbreeze productions over the coming years."

Meanwhile, Project Red Lime, heavily rumoured to be a Syndicate reboot, has grown in scope.

"After the end of the quarter an agreement was made with Electronic Arts to increase the scope of the project," continues the document. "This has mainly been done in order to perform a number of creative improvements. At the time of publishing this report the agreement hadn't been formalised in written contract form.

"The high staff turnover during the autumn and winter had a negative impact on the production time. Most of the people who left have been or will be replaced with hired consultants and new staff."

EA hasn't confirmed that it's planning a new Syndicate title but rumours abound that The Darkness dev Starbreeze is working on it.

In April 2010 Starbreeze was spotted trade-marking the name Syndicate three times. Further Syndicate trademarks were spotted later in the year.

EA signed Starbreeze in early 2008 to rework a major franchise for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Could Syndicate be it? E3 is just around the corner.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • pauleyc #1 1 year ago

    Ooohh, please let it be a Syndicate reboot/remake!

  • Subdominator #2 1 year ago

    I don't understand why they keep all the secrecy. If it is Syndicate then just admit it and all is good.

  • Drygore #3 1 year ago

    A friend of mine just got a job at Starbreeze as an animator (worked at Dice earlier, making Mirrors Edge, Bad Company 2 etc.), he refuses however to tell me if it is infact Syndicate (i understand that ofc). But im gonna keep pushing the bastard ;-) Anyway, lets hope that it actually is Syndicate!

  • nbringer #4 1 year ago

    MINIGUN!!! UZI!! Oh boy!... Wet pants...

  • yoomazir #5 1 year ago

    "The high staff turnover during the autumn and winter had a negative impact on the production time. "

    What the hell does that mean, key members left Starbreeze? I hope not, I deeply enjoyed their last games, if people leave it may lower down their quality :-/
    Edited by yoomazir at 21/05/11 @ 10:54

  • governmentyard #6 1 year ago

    I'll keep looking forward to their games until they make a shit one. Bring on the Syndicate.

  • lockload #7 1 year ago

    Of course it syndicate

    EDIT: Fucking spammers, eurogamer sort it out
    Edited by lockload at 21/05/11 @ 19:40

  • pkaulf #8 1 year ago

    I still don't really understand why they ditched their own perfectly good engine for Unreal Engine 3.