Remedy abandons development of the game known as Project Kestrel. The studio justified this cancellation by a desire to concentrate on other titles currently in development. Fortunately, this cancellation does not involve layoffs.
Remedy Entertainment (Alan Wake) has announced the cancellation of the game known as Project Kestrel. Although little information about it has filtered out, we knew that it was initially a question of a multiplayer and free-to-play game. Secondly, the title would have been reconsidered as a premium game. However, Project Kestrel never got beyond early development, and will now never see the light of day.
Remedy Entertainment justified this cancellation by a desire to focus on other games in its portfolio. Tero Virtala, CEO of Remedy, explained in a press release: “ Codename Kestrel showed promise, but the project was still in the concept stage. Our other projects have progressed well and are moving into the next stages of development, and focusing more on them provides us with benefits “.
He then specifies that he “ This is another way to ensure our game projects continue to progress well. “.
Good news during this gloomy period for the video game industry, Remedy assured that the cancellation of the game did not involve layoffs and that the employees who worked on it would be assigned to new positions. Nevertheless, the “ overall recruitment needs » will be revised downwards…
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