Payday 3
Payday 3 is an upcoming first-person shooter game developed by Overkill Software and published by Starbreeze AB and Koch Media. Setting. The game will take place after the ending of "Payday 2" where the heisters went separate ways and left their lives of crime, but something is to re-motivate the Payday Gang to continue crime. Overkill have confirmed the original crew of characters originating from ("Dallas", "Chains", "Wolf", and "Hoxton", or colloquially, the "core four") will be in "Payday 3" and the game will take place mainly in New York. For the first mission, Overkill has  confirmed a location called the "Gold & Sharke Incorporated" bank. The first games are set in the 2010s, but "Payday 3" will take place in the 2020s, which Overkill have said would add more depth to the Payday Gang's crimes with game-changing differences like more advanced surveillance or the rise of cryptocurrency. Majority of the news of Overkill's plans for "Payday 3" came in 2021, where the 10th anniversary of the "Payday" franchise was celebrated. Development. Overkill Software is a studio of Starbreeze after $30 million acquiration of Overkill and the Payday intellectual property, but both have  struggled with financial troubles with the making of Payday 3, but the project was back in development after Starbreeze signed a €50 million ($60 million) deal in 2021 to co-publish the game with Koch Media. "Payday 3" will be developed using Unreal Engine 5. The game is planned to release in 2023.