The Finnish Game Awards 2024 were held last night, with Remedy's Alan Wake 2 taking home Finnish Game of the Year.
07.05.2024 - 09:33 / wccftech.com / Alessio Palumbo / Tero Virtala / Will
Today, Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment decided jointly with Tencent to cancel the cooperative multiplayer game they were developing.
Originally codenamed Vanguard, the game was designed as a free-to-play live service title. The partnership with Tencent (which also owns a 14% minority stake in Remedy) was announced in late 2021, with the Chinese giant grabbing Asian publishing rights as well as a license to develop a mobile version.
The game was subsequently delayed and then rebooted as Project Kestrel just six months ago, changing its business model from free-to-play to premium. However, that clearly wasn't enough to salvage the project.
Remedy CEO Tero Virtala said in a statement:
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 benefits. 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. I want to thank our Kestrel development team. Though we decided to discontinue the project for wider Remedy benefits, our team has done good work and provided us with valuable learnings. I also want to thank Tencent for their partnership so far. They have been very professional and supportive.
The upside is that Remedy will now reallocate the developers to the existing projects, such as the Max Payne remakes and the continuation of the company's owned franchises, Alan Wake and Control, which the studio plans to grow.
Remedy also still has another cooperative multiplayer game in the works, the so-called Project Condor, a Control spin-off. The game progressed to the production stage in late 2023, and in late March, Remedy showed an infographic with some background details on Condor.
The Finnish Game Awards 2024 were held last night, with Remedy's Alan Wake 2 taking home Finnish Game of the Year.
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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.
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.
Remedy has announced the cancellation of its multiplayer title codenamed Kestrel in order to focus on its existing franchises.
Remedy has cancelled one of its in-development multiplayer projects, codenamed Kestrel.
Remedy Entertainment has decided to cancel the game codenamed “Kestrel” in order to focus on other games in its portfolio, the developer announced.
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