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SERIES · ESTABLISHED 2011
Payday
FPS
COVERED BY 67 WRITERS
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Andy Chalk, Fraser Gilbert, Liam Croft and 64 more across 15 outlets
4 ENTRIES
Every game in the series
WRITER INDEX
Covering Payday
Each writer's count reflects their lifetime indexed pieces on any Payday entry.
LATEST COVERAGE
Across the series
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·10 Aug
Payday has come to Fortnite, because today's cool gamers are 'discovering legendary IPs in entirely new ways'newsonPayday: Aces High
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Virginia Glaze IGN·29 Jul
Battlefield 6's Record-Breaking Success Earns EA CEO $38 Million Payday, But Laid-Off Devs Aren't Around to CelebratenewsComparisononBattlefield 6
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Elijah Gonzalez Polygon·29 Jul
EA CEO gets big Battlefield 6 payday, while devs were laid offnewsComparisononPayday
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·26 Jun
As its much newer sequel struggles, the 13-year-old Payday 2 is getting a 'massive engine upgrade' that improves performance and cuts the install size in halfnewsonPayday 2
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·29 Apr
Starbreeze hasn't declared Payday 3 dead yet, but it's launching yet another spin-off this year—this time on RobloxnewsComparisononPayday: Aces High
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·24 Mar
There's a new Payday game coming later this year, and it's VRnewsComparisononPayday: Aces High
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Vikki Blake IGN·24 Mar
Payday: Aces High Is a New 4-Player Co-op VR Game Coming to Steam and Meta Where You Can 'Pull Off Daring Jobs in VR Using Black-Market Tech'newsonPayday: Aces High
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Tomas Franzese GameSpot·24 Mar
The Newest Payday Game Is Unexpected, And I Hope It's Better Than Payday 3newsonPayday 3
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Luke Kemp GamesRadar+·20 Nov 2025
After Payday 3's fumbles, Fairgames just might turn out to be the heist game that I cravenewsonPayday 3
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·6 Nov 2025
Crime Boss: Rockay City pokes fun at Payday 3 with a new trailer, in case you're wondering just how bad it's gotten for StarbreezenewsComparisononCrime Boss: Rockay City
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Wes Fenlon PC Gamer·28 Oct 2025
The best way to innovate in gaming 'is to have good margins,' says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, so I guess he'll be reinvesting his $96.5 million payday back into Xbox any second nownewsComparisononPayday
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Rich Stanton PC Gamer·21 Oct 2025
Starbreeze hands off Payday 2 to another developer as it goes all-in on trying to salvage the beleaguered Payday 3newsonPayday 3
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Vikki Blake IGN·26 Sept 2025
Payday 2 DLC Bundle $50 Price Hike Was 'An Error,' Starbreeze InsistsnewsonPayday 2
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·25 Sept 2025
Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right'newsonPayday 2
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Ashley Bardhan GamesRadar+·25 Sept 2025
Payday 2 dev adds DLC subscription to its 12-year-old game as a "cost effective alternative" after price hike, admits "we messed up" as players torch its Steam reviewsnewsonPayday 2
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Andy Chalk PC Gamer·24 Sept 2025
Payday 2 gets a new DLC subscription service, and it's a pretty good deal but a lot of players are mad anywaynewsonPayday 2
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Vikki Blake IGN·24 Sept 2025
Starbreeze Increases Price of Payday 2's Infamous Collection As It Launches $5 A Month DLC Subscription Service on Steam — And Fans Aren't HappynewsonPayday 2 & Infamous Collection
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Rebekah Valentine IGN·12 Aug 2025
Krafton Responds to Ex-Subnautica 2 Leads' Lawsuit, Saying They 'Resorted to Litigation to Demand a Payday They Haven't Earned'newsComparisononSubnautica 2
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Ali Jones GamesRadar+·13 Jun 2025
The chaos of Hotline Miami meets the intricate planning of Payday in this hostage-saving Steam Next Fest demo that's absolutely riffing on Die HardnewsComparisononPayday
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Joe Donnelly PC Gamer·8 Jun 2025
‘We could go from a shooter to a platformer to a horror theme’: How stepping away from Payday 2’s real-world framing has helped Den of Wolves turn high-stakes heisting on its headnewsonPayday 2