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Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television

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[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 56 points 3 months ago

Great to see that Epic didn't snatch that one up.

I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.

[-] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago

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

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.”

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[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago

Exciting announcement. Two of the best creative and narrative focused companies in gaming.

[-] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

That seems like a huge step for Anapurna too, doesn't it?

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] GreyCat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

It's Outer Wilds, no "The".
Sorry for being pedantic :p

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks, edited.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 3 months ago

God damn how I wish James McCaffrey was still with us.

[-] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago
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[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Can't say I love Annapurna, but at least control 2 will be on steam. Hopefully from day 1.

[-] AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Oooh, now it's getting interesting

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Duenan@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

Ps5 disc printing mistake.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Really liked Control, although the Alan Wake DLC was disappointing. Hoping the second on has more Threshold kids!

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