Rockstar Games buys Dhruva Interactive and takes over the Payday franchise

The sale of Dhruva Interactive for $ 7.9 million to Rockstar Games is confirmed, which gives them ownership of the Payday franchise

The video game industry is one of the cruelest and one day you can succeed and the next day no one will remember you. This has happened to the Starbreeze studio, who developed the popular game Payday. In order to avoid bankruptcy, said studio has decided to sell its Dhruva Interactive studio to Rockstar Games for $ 7.9 million. This means that Rockstar Games will keep the Payday franchise.

Starbreeze sells Payday franchise to Rockstar Games

The Swedish study during the presentation of its accounts showed that it needed liquidity to try to keep the company afloat. Dhurva, according to the issued press release, has 300 employees specialized in game art and design. Now this studio will become part of the Rockstar India division. The company emphasizes that the current projects of different clients will not suffer interruptions.

“Dhruva Interactive has been a benchmark for game development in India for decades and we are delighted to include them in the Rockstar family. The addition of the Dhruva team to existing talent at Rockstar India will expand the studio's capabilities and reinforce our belief and commitment to the local development community, ”said Daniel Smith, Rockstar India Studio Manager

Rockstar Games is the undisputed leader in innovation and creativity in modern game development. Dhruva Interactive was founded with the goal of creating a world-class game development community in India, so the addition of the Dhruva team to the Rockstar Games label is further proof that we have managed to create a talented team that can contribute to the best games in the world while helping to create a thriving community of local game developers in India, ”said Rajesh Rao, CEO and Founder of Dhruva.