{"id":76912,"date":"2019-01-18T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/334711"},"modified":"2019-01-18T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:46:00","slug":"starbreeze-delays-console-release-of-overkills-the-walking-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/starbreeze-delays-console-release-of-overkills-the-walking-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbreeze delays console release of Overkill&#8217;s The Walking Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starbreeze has announced that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.starbreeze.com\/2019\/01\/overkills-the-walking-dead-console-release-postponed\/\">it is holding off <\/a>on bringing <em>Overkill\u2019s The Walking Dead<\/em> to consoles, at least for now. Both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the games were due to launch on February 6, but have now been delayed indefinitely, with more details to be released at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>For Starbreeze, the decision to delay the console launch of <em>Overkill\u2019s The Walking Dead <\/em>comes during a rough patch in the company\u2019s history. Prior to its release, company leadership had previously toted the game as its biggest release since <em>Payday 2<\/em>, a game that, despite releasing 5 years ago, is <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/330085\/Payday_2_is_responsible_for_62_of_Starbreezes_Q3_sales.php\">still a top earner<\/a> for Starbreeze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The studio had been banking on the success of <em>Overkill\u2019s The Walking Dead<\/em> to bring it back into the profitable range, but sales of the PC version fell short of expectations. Following the game\u2019s release,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/331407\/Starbreeze_cutting_costs_after_Overkills_The_Walking_Dead_falls_short.php\">Starbreeze announced<\/a> that it had initiated a program to \u201creduce costs and sharpen focus on core business,\u201d including internal and external development, in order to keep what CFO Sebastian Ahlskog described as the \u201ccompany\u2019s important games\u201d alive and headed toward release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starbreeze has announced that\u00a0it is holding off on bringing Overkill\u2019s The Walking Dead to consoles, at least for now. Both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the games were due to launch on February 6, but have now been delayed indefinitely, with more details to be released at a later date. For Starbreeze, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}