PayDay 2 News

It just got a lot worse for the embattled video game company Starbreeze, which has suffered a raid on its offices by Swedish authorities.

Starbreeze is desperately trying to save itself from going out of business after a string of high-profile flops.

Heist shooter Payday 2 will crack open on Nintendo Switch early next year - on 23rd February in the UK.

North America will get the game just a few days later on 27th February, meanwhile.

Payday 2 will be getting a digital and physical launch - prices for which are still to be confirmed. There's no word yet on exactly what content will be included.

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Overkill Software has offered a progress report on the development of Payday 2 for Nintendo Switch, and a brief look at some gameplay running in portable mode.

Payday 2 was announced for Switch during a Nintendo Direct back in April. At the time, Overkill said that its heist-themed multiplayer FPS was scheduled to arrive this "winter".

With winter almost upon us (sigh) and still no word on Payday 2's release, Overkill has returned. Sadly, its update video doesn't offer much beyond what we knew already - merely serving as a reminder, and a reassurance, that the Switch version is still in production.

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Payday 2 developer Overkill is giving away 5 million copies of its cooperative heist game on Steam.

Lots of news in the world of Payday 2. Yesterday we reported on the VR version of the game, due out soon. Now, there's news of an Ultimate Edition.

Overkill has unveiled Payday VR, a virtual reality version of its popular multiplayer shooter Payday 2.

Surprise! Nintendo Switch is getting its own version of Payday 2.

The four-year-old first-person shooter released back in 2013 for PC. Its new Switch version is slated for "winter" this year.

Apart from the fact it'll include co-op multiplayer, little is known about this fresh version.

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In a press release announcing Swedish studio Starbreeze has bought the full rights to the Payday franchise, Payday 3 was confirmed.

Starbreeze's agreement with publisher 505 Games for Payday includes a note about money made from Payday 3.

The note says 505 gets a 33 per cent revenue share of Starbreeze's net revenues from future sales of Payday 3, capped at $40m (around £27m), and after Starbreeze has fully recouped its development and marketing costs.

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Payday 2 will kick off its 2016 DLC schedule with a $6.99 Goat Simulator add-on.

Killing Floor 2 developer Tripwire Interactive has issued a response to fans angered by the impending addition of microtransactions to the Steam Early Access hit.

Payday 2 developer Overkill Studios has apologised to its community after a month of changes that infuriated fans.

Payday 2 players recently reacted in anger at the addition of paid-for weapon skins with stat-changing bonuses.

Now, Payday 2 developer Overkill has added new weapon skins with XP and cash boosting upgrades to the game's PC version.

The update has incensed the heist shooter's already disgruntled playerbase, just weeks after Overkill's last widely-criticised addition.

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PayDay 2 producer Almir Listo has defended his team's decision to add paid microtransactions to the team crime shooter's PC version.

PayDay 2 developer Overkill has tweaked the way one of its controversial in-game items works following an outcry over last week's addition of microtransactions to the game.

Furious PayDay 2 players have blasted developer Overkill for adding a microtransaction system to get random loot with gameplay-changing effects.

Developer Overkill has promised to fix Payday 2 on Xbox One by the end of 2015.

Multiplayer heist-based FPS Payday 2 is free to play this weekend on Steam.

The console version of massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online came out last week and now the game has shot to the top of the UK chart.

Payday 2 developer Overkill has pledged to continue support for its popular heist shooter into 2017.

Payday 2 and SpeedRunners, the beloved competitive multiplayer game that's inspired the new Giana Sisters title, have announced some free new crossover content.

Former Battlefield developer and current Eurogamer columnist David Goldfarb has announced plans for a new, untitled role-playing game.

Goldfarb is working on the game as creative chief of new Stockholm-based indie team The Outsiders, and is aiming for a release, at least initially, on PC.

Fellow ex-DICE employee Ben Cousins has also joined the project and will act as The Outsiders' new CEO.

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Payday 2: Crimewave Edition will arrive in June for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, developer Overkill has told Eurogamer.

Payday 2 has just received two new pieces of DLC on Steam. One adds a new heist, the other the game's first playable female character, Clover.

Payday 2 developer Overkill has announced that it's making Hotline Miami-themed crossover DLC for its heist shooter due on 30th September.

The Payday 2 website has been updated with news of another upcoming DLC pack, but you may be forgiven for thinking you've clicked through to a different game by mistake. The page is a pretty spot-on parody of EA and DICE's Battlefield series, right down to the logo, glowing orange and teal colour scheme and pounding soundtrack.

Payday 2 lead designer David Goldfarb has quit developer Overkill Software to start his own indie studio.

Payday 2 is coming to new-gen consoles PS4 and Xbox One in a fancily named Crimewave Edition of the game.

PayDay 2 publisher 505 Games has recruited Breaking Bad criminal mastermind Gustavo Fring for the game's next expansion.

The PlayStation Blog has announced the games to be added to Plus subscribers' Instant Game Collection for May.

Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons have helped Swedish developer Starbreeze turn around its financial fortunes.

Four-player co-op first-person shooter Payday 2 gets its first DLC, Armored Transport Heists, today on PC.

First-person shooter Payday 2 has sold 1.58 million copies - and Starbreeze has hailed the game as a success.

80 per cent of those sales were digital, Starbreeze announced in a note to investors released yesterday.

Payday 2 was developed by Overkill Software, which is owned by Starbreeze, and published by 505 Games.

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UK supplies of heist shooter Payday 2 will be replenished in the coming days, publisher 505 Games has promised.

Payday 2 releases on Steam on 13th August, Overkill has announced.

The game will release on other platforms, including PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, between 13th and 16th August, the developer said.

Payday 2, the follow-up to Payday: The Heist, is a co-op multiplayer shooter that revolves around a heist mechanic.

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Imagine waking up to find that someone had turned your name into a video game Easter egg and hidden it inside one of the world's biggest shooters. Then imagine all this had happened nearly two years ago, and the internet had only just found it out after someone hacked into said game's innards.