“Payday ” Dev Starbreze kills the cooperative game of Dngeons & Dragons’

After the success of Baldur’s Gate 3, We talked about Hasbro and Wizards on the coast, freeing more games based on Dungeons and Dragons. Bad news for the fans waiting for this: one of them, a title called “Project Baxter”, was completely canceled.

The title was in development with the Swedish developer Starbreze, better known for the Pay day franchise and 2012 Union. In a recent announcement, CEO Adolf Kristjansson said that the “difficult but necessary decision” came while the studio prioritizes a complete overhaul of its cooperative franchise Pay day. As such, the development of “Baxter” has ended, and some of its assigned developers will be “redeployed in Starbreze projects”. Others will be released and will help Starbreze to find a job elsewhere.

“Baxter” was announced for the first time in 2023, Starbeze at the time indicating that it included “Signature Cornerston” of his previous works as a live service model and a cooperative game. Although the studio has been silent since then, the game would have released in 2026 for “all the big platforms”. At that time in 2024, Starbereeze showed an art concept with a teasing that it would show more in the near future.

Dungeons and Dragons is not unrelated to live service games: before Baldur’s Gate 3, There was a restart focused on the cooperation of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance In 2021, and its online servers closed last February. Coast wizards, which has D&D, also canceled five unexpected games before Baldur release, some of which were likely D&D Games. At the time of writing the present D&D Universe – and directed by Star Wars: Jedi The director Stig Asmussen – remains in development.

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