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Starbreeze signs Publishing deal for PAYDAY: Crime War with Universal Games and Digital Platforms

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Under the agreement, Starbreeze will receive a 1.5 MUSD advance payment upon signing, and Universal Games and Digital Platforms will cover certain costs for continued development, marketing, live operations and user acquisition with respect to the game. Upon worldwide launch, if any, Universal Games and Digital Platforms will pay an additional instalment of an advance/guarantee and thereafter will recoup its costs, after which Starbreeze will retain a revenue share equivalent to PC and console publishing deals on sales of the game. Starbreeze retains all IP rights for the title. 

"PAYDAY is in the core of our business and we're happy to find a great partner in Universal Games and Digital Platforms to help realize the mobile title PAYDAY: Crime War in the expansive way it deserves. There has been good traction in our open beta last year and we will continue to further develop and tune the title for its release together with Universal," said Mikael Nermark, Starbreeze Acting CEO. 

"We've spent nearly two years building a trusted games team with proven expertise in all aspects of mobile game publishing," said Chris Heatherly, Executive Vice President of Games and Digital Platforms, Universal Brand Development. "With the addition of PAYDAY: Crime Warto our game slate, we can help Starbreeze bring a fresh, new experience to PAYDAYfans on mobile, the largest gaming platform in the world." 

The project will jointly be evaluated during the next six months, where after Universal Games and Digital Platformshas the option to fully exit the agreement if certain KPI's are not met.

The parties will work together to establish the new global release timeframe which is estimated for 2019.

About PAYDAY 

First launched in 2011, PAYDAY is a cooperative first-person shooter computer and video game franchise with more than 17 million units sold on PC, SteamOS, PlayStation™ 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation™ 4, Xbox One and the Nintendo™ Switch system. With more than 5.8 million community members on the main PC digital distribution platform Steam, PAYDAY 2 have had more than 170 paid and free updates since its release in 2013.

PAYDAY 2 in VR is also available for existing owners of PAYDAY 2 on Steam for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift headsets.

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