 Starbreeze partnered with Electronic Arts to develop a reboot to the Syndicate series , but it ended up being a commercial failure , and many staff members moved to rival company MachineGames , established by Starbreeze 's founders . As a result , the company shifted part of its focus on developing smaller games , such as Brothers : A Tale of Two Sons . Starbreeze began expanding the company in 2012 with its acquisition of Overkill Software . Overkill 's first title after the acquisition , Payday 2 , helped Starbreeze make a record profit after suffering an accumulated loss of $ 14 @.@ 4 million since its inception . In 2015 , the company announced that it would start publishing video games from independent developers , and that it had begun the development of a virtual reality headset named Project Star VR . 
