Digital Bros to acquire minority stake in Starbreeze from Smilegate for €19.2m.

Digital Bros, an Italian video game company that develops, publishes and distributes games, agreed to acquire minority stake in Starbreeze, a Swedish video game developer and publisher, from Smilegate, a South Korean video game developer and publisher, which develops, publishes and services mobile and PC online games, for €19.2m. The link between the two companies is the Payday franchise. The console versions of Payday 2 were published through Digital Bros. subsidiary 505 Games, and the online shooter was the bedrock of Starbreeze's success for many years.