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Payday 3 reveals two new characters and a year of post-launch DLC

By Jonathan Bolding published 10 September 23

News Year 1's theme will be "The Bad Apple."

News

Payday 3 looks like it's making the wise decision to not change very much at all

By Morgan Park published 11 June 23

NEWS We finally got a release date during today's Xbox Games Showcase.

NEWS

Starbreeze reclaims Payday 3 publishing rights from Plaion, says it will 'significantly accelerate our content development roap'

By Andy Chalk published 6 May 25

news As Payday 3 continues to struggle, Starbreeze is looking ahead to "broader strategic opportunities for the Payday franchise as a whole."

news

Payday 3's game director is stepping down after a hard first year for the heist game sequel

By Lincoln Carpenter published 11 September 24

News Starbreeze gets another leadership shakeup following its CEO departure back in March.

News

Payday 3 sales dropped off hard in 2024, but Starbreeze has hope for the future

By Jonathan Bolding published 21 February 25

News After a year and a half of updates from the launch, Payday 3's troubles continue.

News

Thank god they didn't overwrite Payday 2 with Payday 3

By Tyler Colp published 26 October 23

news Payday 2 still has more active players than its new sequel.

news

Payday 3's long-awaited first patch is delayed again: 'Please bear with us'

By Tyler Colp published 16 October 23

news Starbreeze is taking extra time to make the patching process faster for the future.

news

Payday 3 dev says it's making 'a bunch of changes' to the game's detested progression system 9 days after saying it had no plans to do so

By Joshua Wolens published 4 October 23

News Payday 3's progression has stuck in players' craws since release, but it looks like it's due for an overhaul.

News

Payday 3 review

By Tyler Colp published 26 September 23

best-laid plans A promising co-op FPS anchored to a charmless grind.

best-laid plans

Payday 3 dev diary details all the sociopathic stuff you can do with hostages

By Rich Stanton published 15 June 23

news Starbreeze isn't reinventing the wheel, but it is tweaking bits of it.

news

Payday 3 did too good a job of silently releasing a stealth trailer, so the devs had to prompt fans with bad poetry

By Rich Stanton published 17 July 23

news "Were we mistaken? Should another path have been taken?"

news

Payday 3 slammed on Steam by players forced to wait in server queues just to play by themselves

By Tyler Wilde published 22 September 23

news Launch-week server errors have also made it hard just to reach the main menu at times.

news

Payday 3 developer promises '200+ QoL improvements' this month following an atrocious launch

By Mollie Taylor published 2 October 23

news Starbreeze also says matchmaking is "stable and has good performance" now.

news

Payday 3's server problems reveal a deeper issue that an offline mode can't solve

By Tyler Colp published 27 September 23

Queue blues The challenge system is in desperate need of a rework.

Queue blues

Payday 3 hasn't had updates because of a 'critical error in our backend', Starbreeze says the launch has been 'frustrating'

By Rich Stanton published 15 November 23

news "We have no reason to want to delay updates for this long."

news

After a catastrophic launch period, Payday 3 is assembling a veteran crew for its own daring rescue mission

By Rich Stanton published 24 January 24

news "We're well aware that many of you aren't satisfied."

news

Payday 3's technical playtest starts next week on Steam

By Andy Chalk published 27 July 23

news You can sign up for a chance to get in on Steam.

news

Payday 3 fans lament its inevitable shutdown after Starbreeze confirms transition to always-online: 'This game is on death row'

By Joshua Wolens published 14 July 23

News Fans worry about what it means for mods, the game's longevity, and their dodgy internet connections.

News

Payday 3 dev reflects on 'disastrous' launch—'The game just felt unfinished… it was a bad experience'

By Rich Stanton published 14 October 24

news "The whole stage just collapsed and everyone left."

news

Payday 3's first update is delayed to mid-October 'to ensure its stability,' more server maintenance is coming this weekend

By Andy Chalk published 5 October 23

news Starbreeze's troubled shooter runs into yet more problems.

news

Payday 3's launch has gone so badly that Starbreeze says it's now 'looking at the possibility of some sort of offline mode'

By Andy Chalk published 25 September 23

news Payday 3's matchmaking is still broken, driving Steam reviews down to "mostly negative."

news

Starbreeze explains ongoing Payday 3 patch delay: 'There was a significant risk to player progression being wiped' by update errors

By Andy Chalk published 25 October 23

news Payday 3's first patch is now in the console certification process.

news

Payday 3 is finally getting an offline mode as Starbreeze CEO its sales and player numbers are 'significantly lower' than he would like

By Andy Chalk published 15 February 24

news Starbreeze announced a major overhaul of Payday 3 today including changes to progression, matchmaking, the UI, and the always-on requirement.

news

Hands-on with Payday 3's expanded stealth heisting, in which everything goes wrong

By Tyler Wilde published 26 June 23

Preview Trying to rob a bank without a plan is as hard as it sounds.

Preview

Payday 3 developer drops Denuvo from the game before it's even out

By Wes Fenlon published 15 September 23

News Can you walk something back before you've even walked it forward?

News

Six months after the disastrous launch of Payday 3, Starbreeze CEO is out as the company says it needs 'different leadership' for the future

By Andy Chalk published 12 March 24

news Tobias Sjögren had been at the head of Starbreeze since 2020.

news

Payday 3's long-overdue first patch is live: 'We’re finally up and running as things should be'

By Andy Chalk published 2 November 23

news The patch makes a number of fixes and balance changes, but it's not enough for some fans.

news

After Payday 3's disastrous launch, Starbreeze partners up with an Australian studio to lend its 'expertise in release management' to a Fortnite Island

By Joshua Wolens published 26 October 23

News Timing is an art.

News

Payday studio Starbreeze is working on a co-op multiplayer D&D game, and the more I think about it the more it makes sense

By Andy Chalk published 4 December 23

news Robbing banks is basically the same as raiding dungeons, right?

news

Den of Wolves is a 'mind-f***' heist game from the Payday designer set in a sci-fi city 'where late-stage capitalism has gone rampant'

By Tyler Wilde published 8 December 23

News Here's what we know about Den of Wolves, a co-op shooter inspired by Inception, Ghost in the Shell, and Blade Runner.

News
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