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Starbreeze gives a quick update on Payday 3, says the game's development is progressing according to plan and should meet its announced 2023 release.

Starbreeze is capitalizing development expenditures for a new IP, wants to ship its next game past Payday 3 in 2025 and will be set in a non-Payday IP.

Embracer Group now owns the rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit video games, movies, adaptations, and more, directly synergizing with other teams.

Action RPG 'Dolmen' will support Intel XeSS super-resoltuion technology when it launches... on May 20... without a GPU. LOL.

Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors concisely summarizes the company's widespread business model while promising more strategic M&A.

Embracer Group employs hundreds of devs in Ukraine and plans to donate $5 million to humanitarian aid and relief in the region.

Deep Silver parent company Koch Media has donated $500,000 to Ukranian relief, ousting Activision-Blizzard's $300,000 donation.

Payday 3 update: Starbreeze says Overkill's new Payday sequel is going 'according to plan,' still set for a 2023 release.

Sony takes a move from the Xbox Game Pass playbook by securing day one releases on PlayStation Now...is Spartacus coming soon?

The Embracer Group has made 71 acquisitions, buyouts, and purchases from 2016 - 2021, plans to secure $851 million for more M&A.

Hot Wheels Unleashed is one of the most successful games in Embracer's Q3 period with over 1 million copies sold in the period.

Metro Exodus has sold 6 million copies since its release in 2019, making it a landmark success for 4A Games and Deep Silver.

Nightdive Studios has found a major-league publisher for its new System Shock reboot, which is coming to consoles and PC in 2022.

Flying Wild Hog says they've been 'working our flying wild butts off' to make Shadow Warrior 3 the best FPS game it can be.

Volition teases its new Saints Row game, which is apparently a reboot and not a fully-fledged series sequel like Saints Row V.

Embracer Group goes on a new buyout spree and acquires eight new studios including old-school Duke Nukem 3D dev 3D Realms.

Flying Wild Hog is working on four separate projects, and we know about three of them. The fourth game will be revealed soon.

The only next-gen Xbox Series X/S exclusive on the market is a third-party game that's also coming to Sony's PlayStation 5.

Shadow Warrior 3 developer Flying Wild Hog are working on four major games including the team's most ambitious project ever.

Deep Silver parent company Koch Media is holding its own E3-timed digital stream, and we could see Saints Row V and Dead Island 2.

The not-E3 offshoot Summer Game Fest returns this year on June 10, and 35 major industry players have been confirmed for the show.

Starbreeze only lost $486 thousand in Q1'21, a reduction of 95% over last year, and latest financials show positive uptick.

Deep Silver has apparently signed Dead Island 2 and possibly Saints Row V as Epic Games Store timed exclusives at release.

505 Games no longer publishes Payday games, but a contract shows the company will still receive a cut of future Payday 3 earnings.

E3 2021 officially takes place from June 12-15 in all-digital format, major industry publishers will show up with new reveals.

Embracer (formerly THQ Nordic) raises a whopping $890 million to help fund new games, acquisitions, and publishing deals.

Starbreeze signs a 50 million Euro publishing deal with Deep Silver's Koch Media, Payday 3 is coming to consoles and PC in 2023.

Koch Media expects 'significant product releases in 2021 and beyond,' and owner Embracer Group says FY2022 will be its best year.

There's two possibilities: Dead Island 2 is a next-gen PS5/Series X exclusive, or Dambuster is working on another new game.

Embracer Group's big three-studio buyout today pushed their IP ownership all the way to 244 franchises across 137 studios.

THQ Nordic expands diversification into VR with new Vertigo Games acquisition making it one of the most balanced games companies.

Sony's PlayStation 5 could cost up to $599 for a 2TB SSD model, and less for the 865GB base model.

Embracer Group has a big watchlist of IPs and studios it wants to buy, and just raised over $100 million to help fund these acquisitions.

Saints Row V is on the way, possibly with a E3 2020 reveal and a launch on next-gen consoles.

Dead Island 2 might hit at 2021 launch at the earliest.

Project xCloud just got a lot more enticing.

Most of Deep Silver's biggest games could skip Steam in favor of the Epic Store.

THQ Nordic wants to change its name to something a little...odd.

Metro Exodus is a massive success and helped spike THQ Nordic's earnings by five-fold.

Friday's F. Gary Gray set to direct a Saints Row film adaptation.

So now Metro Exodus is receiving POSITIVE Steam reviews, despite the Epic Games Store controversy.

'PC will always be at the heart of our plans.'

Skipping a whole platform is incredibly bad for business, so Deep Silver likely won't do it. But they could move farther away from Steam.

Metro Exodus has been boycotted on Steam since its departure from Valve's platform.

THQ Nordic AB has shined some light on the publishing fiasco that Metro Exodus' Epic Games Store exclusivity deal has caused.