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Sweden’s Starbreeze invests $1.4M in mobile shooter game developer Cmune

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Swedish game publisher Starbreeze announced tonight that it has invested $1.4 million in mobile shooter game specialist Cmune.

Cmune will take Starbreeze’s hit Payday online game series to mobile devices. That new game will be a licensed Payday experience that is tailored to mobile. With the success of other console ports like the space shoot-’em-up Geometry Wars 3 and adaptations like the turn-based shooter-turned-puzzler Hitman: Go, Cmune is hoping to find a different path to profits in the $30 billion game industry.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.