According to SteamDB, Helldivers 2 has been put back up for sale on Steam in certain countries, which hopefully means that those affected by its delisting can get back into the action.
07.05.2024 - 22:03 / rockpapershotgun.com / Tero Virtala
Remedy have called it quits on the project codenamed Kestrel. The co-op multiplayer game was an original IP being made with the backing of Tencent, but now Remedy say they've cancelled it to allow them to focus on "other games in our portfolio", all of which are based on "existing franchises".
"Codename Kestrel showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage. Our other projects have advanced well and are moving to the next stages of development, and increasing focus on them provides us with benefit," says Remedy’s CEO Tero Virtala in the announcement. "We can reallocate talented Kestrel developers to these other game projects, and many of our support functions get additional focus on their operations. This is yet another means to ensure that our game projects continue advancing well."
Not much was known about Kestrel other than that it was a premium cooperative multiplayer game. It grew out of an early project, codenamed Vanguard, a free-to-play co-op game which reached proof-of-concept stage last year. At that point, Remedy and Tencent decided that Remedy were better off leaning more into their "core strengths", at which point Vanguard switched to a premium game and adopted the Kestrel project codename.
Now that Kestrel has been cancelled, developers are being re-deployed on new games in "existing franchises". One of those is Control 2, which was confirmed back in 2022, and one is a project codenamed Condor, which is a four-player co-op spin-off set in the Control universe first announced in 2021. Earlier this year, Remedy took total ownership over the Control IP.
According to SteamDB, Helldivers 2 has been put back up for sale on Steam in certain countries, which hopefully means that those affected by its delisting can get back into the action.
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Tencent and Remedy, the developer of Control and Alan Wake, have completely scrapped their joint gaming project codenamed Kestrel, which they have been working on since 2021. The companies were originally developing a free-to-play co-op shooter until they decided to go in a different direction in November last year. They went back to the drawing board, renamed their project from Vanguard to Kestrel and had planned to make a «premium game with a strong, cooperative multiplayer component» instead. Back then, they said their game will «lean more into Remedy's core strengths» and will use repurposed versions of the company's assets and themes. Clearly, though, their partnership wasn't meant to be.
Alan Wake 2, Control developer Remedy has announced that it has cancelled its multiplayer project, codenamed Kestrel. The studio has revealed that it will instead be focusing more on its existing franchises. According to the announcement, Kestrel had started development in November 2023, and was a reboot of previous project, Vanguard.
Acclaimed game developer Remedy Entertainment has announced the cancellation of its co-op multiplayer game, codenamed Kestrel. This decision comes amid Remedy prioritizing the allocation of resources towards other ongoing projects within its portfolio.
Remedy has announced that it has cancelled Project Kestrel, formerly (formerly Vanguard), which was in development with Tencent. Project Kestrel was meant to be Remedy’s first entry into the Games-as-a-Service business model. The cancellation has been announced as Remedy looks to focus on its existing catalogue of games and IP.