The management of the Remedy studio, as usual, shared the financial results intended for investors, as well as a comment regarding the current state of the entire company and plans for the future. They currently include development of five titlesand Survival Horror is currently closest to completion and release Alan Wake 2. And though it’s still hard to believe after all these years of waiting, now you can even play the full sequel to the 2010 cult thriller from start to finish.
Source: Remedy EntertainmentAlan Wake 2 will surprise Remedy game veterans
At least that’s what the Remedy CEO says. Tero Virtalawho adds in a note to investors that all game content will be on the site soon. After that, the developers will be able to fully focus on debugging and testing, so it is quite possible that Alan Wake 2 will indeed be released sometime this year. But now the release date is still officially sometime in 2023.
Virtala also reported that Alan Wake Remastered since 2021 has not yet brought the studio a share of the profit, so sales fell short of expectations. However, the head of Remedy believes that sales will improve when Alan Wake 2 comes into view, because after that many players and fans will want to remember the history of the first part on next-gen consoles.
Both games are published by Epic Games Publishing, which is one of the reasons why Alan Wake Remastered is still not available on Steam. Even this could theoretically affect the weak sales of the remaster. Virtala doesn’t mention anything like that, so this is more of our own assessment, and of course sales on consoles are important, which are not affected by the PC exclusivity of the Epic Games Store version, but Many gamers have mostly associated the Alan Wake brand with Steam for years..
On the Valve platform, the PC port of the original Xbox 360 version of the game was a significant success in the days following its release in 2012. Thanks to Steam, for example, the cost of developing the PC version paid off in just a few dozen hours. Thus, limiting the availability of a game from a brand that has acquired a large number of PC players to a client that is often not very popular with the same PC players could cause a significant buzz in sales results. On the other side if not for the financial support of Epic Games, who knows if we would ever see a remaster or even a second part.
In the case of other projects that Remedy is preparing, in any case, there have been no major changes in recent months. Development of a cooperative title indicating the position Condorwhich takes place in the 2019 world of Control, so still in concept testing phase. A co-op free-to-play shooter with a working title is also in the same condition Vanguardwhich runs on Unreal Engine and will be published for mobile devices by the Chinese giant Tencent, while the release for PC and consoles will be handled by the Remedy studio itself.
Then we have a remake of the first two parts of the Max Payne series. According to Virtal, the developers have made good progress, However, the Max Payne 1&2 remake is still in the conceptual development stage.. However, in this case, the publisher is Rockstar Games, which still owns the rights to the Max Payne brand. In contrast, the Alan Wake and Control brands are directly owned by Remedy.
Source: Rockstar GamesMax Payne 1 and 2 will get a remake from Remedy
One can speak of a more significant shift only in connection with Control 2. The authors of the project, which until recently was codenamed Heron, now have detailed concepts of the vision of the game itself and all its creative directions, which include gameplay, plot, or illustration. That’s why development moved to the testing phase of these concepts. And to confuse the information about the publishers and companies with which Remedy is currently collaborating, it is worth remembering that 505 Games, which already published the original Control, is involved in the release and financing of the Condor and Control 2 project.
Given the fact that Remedy is currently working on five games, of which all but the Vanguard are powered by the proprietary Northlight engine.probably not surprising The studio plans to release a new game every year. Of course, Alan Wake 2 should be released this year, but there is the question of what could be released in 2024. Other games don’t seem to be at any advanced stage of development, so we’ll have to wait for Remedy’s decision. upcoming plans. They can safely be called ambitious even now.
Source :Indian TV
