 Starting in 2014 the company began broadening its business . On 25 September 2014 , Starbreeze Studios announced that they had acquired a Los Angeles @-@ based studio called Geminose for $ 7 million . The studio is currently working on a toys @-@ to @-@ life game . In May 2015 , Starbreeze announced that the company would start publishing video games from independent developers . The first independent title set to be published by Starbreeze is Raid : World War II , an upcoming four @-@ player , World War II shooter , being developed by Lion Game Lion . During E3 2015 , Starbreeze Studios announced Project StarVR , a virtual reality headset , which is currently under development by InfinitEye , a firm acquired by Starbreeze . The company also acquired Payday Productions and the film rights to Payday in July 2015 . In terms of projects , Starbreeze subsidiary Overkill is working on Overkill 's The Walking Dead , which is set to be released in 2017 with the help of publisher 505 Games , and Storm , which was merged from Starbreeze 's own Cold Mercury . Starbreeze is also set to publish a John Wick game developed by WEVR and Grab for virtual reality platforms . The core Starbreeze team also received investment from Korean publisher Smilegate to develop a new first @-@ person cooperative game set within the Crossfire universe . Starbreeze also announced that it will be publishing Dead by Daylight , an asymmetrical , multiplayer , survival horror game developed by Behavior Interactive . 
