Popular Robbery and Hostage-Taking Franchise “Payday” Is Coming to Mobile

Payday is a popular 2011 first-person shooter in which players adopt the persona of various bank robbers who appear lifted from either The Dark Knight or Point Break. The goal, as one would surmise, is to take money and terrorize people via the hostage process. It’s good family fun.

Despite the game’s popularity on Playstation 3 and PC, it has evaded mobile development for some years. However, rest easy, aspirant ne’er-do-wells – Payday is coming to mobile.

The Swedish studio behind the game, Starbreeze, has partnered with Cmune, a Chinese mobile games specialist better known for goofy micropayment games supported by Facebook. Starwood has ever acquired 6.3 percent of Cmune in the process , a $1.4 million investment.

If anything, this speaks volumes about the gaming power in mobile devices now. Sure, it’s easy to argue that the processing power is somehow not current, since we’re looking at PS3 games four years later, but that’s a pretty awesome achievement.

Personally, this game has zero appeal to me. Sure, I appreciate a good heist film where one is rooting for the criminals, but something about playing the active, first-person role in the whole thing doesn’t work for this author, yet still I think Grand Theft Auto is wildly entertaining. Chances are I feel this way because I actually witnessed a bank hostage situation when I was a kid. Clearly, I’m a conflicted individual.

But hey, if this is your cup of tea and you’re jazzed to put on some clown masks and raise hell, who am I to judge?

No word yet on when this new version of Payday will be released, but don’t be shocked if we get into 2016 before it shows up in your respective app store.

Source: Starbreeze

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