Great to see that Epic didn't snatch that one up.
I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.
Remedy and Epic agreement was for 2 releases, so I guess Alan Wake Remastered and 2 fit the quota and now they're free.
Agreed with their bad publisher choices though
While I dislike Epic as much as the next guy, lets put taste and emotion aside: they went with Epic because Epic offered them a truckload of money. Presumably, enough money to offset any sales lost due to being limited to EGL temporarily, as well as gamers who boycotted the game for the time it was an exclusive, and presumably, no other publisher was offering them as much, or if they were, there were probably even more downsides.
If there was a more financially sensible choice for Remedy, I guarantee you, they would have made it. People have to remember that video games aren't just passion projects meant exlcusively to please fans, they're gigantic, expensive undertakings, surrounded by a massive industry that functions with as much bureaucracy and red tape as any other indistry.
It makes me wonder how it would feel as a game dev getting this deal taken to the extreme.
“Hello, human. I’ve come from the pits of Tartarus to offer a deal. You’ve just finished making a video game. My request is: Do not release it anywhere for 2 years. In exchange, I will give you 5 million dollars.”
Exciting announcement. Two of the best creative and narrative focused companies in gaming.
That seems like a huge step for Anapurna too, doesn't it?
Not really I don't think ... Anna Purna already publishes a lot of games and has published a lot of notable films in the past few years.
I feel like if anything it's most notable because Anna Purna has deeper pockets than Remedy, more experience in film and television, and produce notably high quality creative and narrative work, meaning that they're unlikely to screw up Remedy's writing chops and can legitimately help them expand their mixed media ambitions.
I am just now learning from your comment that Annapurna does film! I just know them from Kentucky Route Zero and Outer Wilds. Crazy, I thought they were just a gaming company.
It's Outer Wilds, no "The".
Sorry for being pedantic :p
Thanks, edited.
God damn how I wish James McCaffrey was still with us.
Can't say I love Annapurna, but at least control 2 will be on steam. Hopefully from day 1.
As I understand it, Control 2 will be self-published by Remedy and is just being co-financed by Annapurna in exchange for film and tv rights
Oooh, now it's getting interesting
Annapurna is Annapurna and is already "weird". But noticing a lot more push for video games as film. And not just the nonsense of shit like Rampage and Borderlands but stuff like Remedy-verse and El Paso Elsewhere as well as Blumhouse getting involved as more of a publisher (?).
We are probably in for a bad time because... yeah. But I am optimistic. Because Remedy (heavily involved rather than just licensed) and Xalavier Nelson Jr and the like are REALLY good at taking advantage of the medium to tell their stories and... their stories are actually pretty okay as stories with a LOT of character work.
Annapurna somehow just stuffed up the PS5 copies of Outer Wilds.
The discs have been printed with just the base game without patches or the dlc.
They really stuffed that up.
Really liked Control, although the Alan Wake DLC was disappointing. Hoping the second on has more Threshold kids!
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