505 Games & Starbreeze Are Making Payday 2

<p>Yes&comma; that headline is correct&period; Starbreeze&comma; the folks behind the fantastic <em>Chronicles of Riddick&colon; Escape From Butcher Bay<&sol;em> and the original <em>The Darkness<&sol;em>&comma; are pairing with publisher 505 Games &lpar;whose games are of&&num;8230&semi; questionable quality&rpar; to make the sequel to acclaimed downloadable co-op hiest-em-up&comma;<em> Payday&colon; The Heist<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>How are Starbreeze allowed to make that sequel despite the fact that they never made the original&quest; Well&comma; earlier this year&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2012&sol;04&sol;19&sol;starbreeze-attempting-acquisition-of-payday-the-heist-studio&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Starbreeze successfully completed their acquisition of Overkill Software<&sol;a>&comma; the developers of the original&comma; and&comma; as a result&comma; gained the rights to the IP of <em>Payday<&sol;em>&period; So now you know&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; under the partnership with 505 Games&comma; Starbreeze will also be releasing another downloadable game entitled <em>P13<&sol;em>&semi; this one an entirely new IP&period; Nothing else has been released as fact about the project&comma; except that it will be &&num;8220&semi;action-adventure&&num;8221&semi; and that the developers have partnered with Swedish film director <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Josef&lowbar;Fares" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Josef Fares<&sol;a> to help guide the game&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;storyline&comma; look and feel&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I still really enjoy the games of Starbreeze&comma; I even mildly enjoyed the <em>Syndicate<&sol;em> reboot from earlier this year&period; And I thought <em>Payday<&sol;em> had a lot of potential that a sequel could definitely fix&period; This&comma; essentially&comma; is a match made in heaven for me&period; Well&comma; except for the 505 Games part&period; That can go die in a hole&comma; for all I care&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;computerandvideogames&period;com&sol;368949&sol;starbreeze-partners-with-505-for-payday-2-and-p13&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">CVG<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2012&sol;09&sol;17&sol;505-and-starbreeze-teaming-up-for-payday-2-and-p13-in-2013&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Joystiq<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;