{"id":1178,"date":"2020-01-22T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2020-01-28T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:12:07","slug":"digital-bros-will-buy-starbreeze-assets-from-smilegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/digital-bros-will-buy-starbreeze-assets-from-smilegate","title":{"rendered":"Digital Bros. will buy Starbreeze assets from Smilegate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Italian publisher Digital Bros. will increase its share in Starbreeze to more than 30%, through the acquisition of all assets held by Crossfire developer Smilegate. The deal valued at \u20ac19.2m will also give Digital Bros. 40% of voting rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starbreeze&#8217;s pirme asset has been the Payday franchise. The console versions of Payday 2 were published through Digital Bros. subsidiary 505 Games, and the online shooter has been successful for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently in development is Payday 3, and it is expected to become Starbreeze&#8217;s another success also very lucrative for its publisher. According to the statement of Digital Bros., it has the potential to &#8220;earn out of up to US $40 million on 33% of net revenues&#8221; from Payday 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Bros. described the increase of its stake in Starbreeze as &#8220;a step enabling the Group to exert greater control over the corporate strategy of Starbreeze AB going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian publisher Digital Bros. will increase its share in Starbreeze to more than 30%, through the acquisition of all assets held by Crossfire developer Smilegate. The deal valued at \u20ac19.2m will also give Digital Bros. 40% of voting rights. Starbreeze&#8217;s pirme asset has been the Payday franchise. The console versions of Payday 2 were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[212,214,213,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}