26 Facts About Remedy Entertainment

Remedy Entertainment Oyj, trading internationally as Remedy Entertainment Plc, is a Finnish video game developer based in Espoo.

Remedy Entertainment decided to pursue a new project named Quantum Break, which further expanded the live-action component of Alan Wake.

Remedy Entertainment is currently working on Alan Wake II and a remake of their original Max Payne titles, combined into one game.

Remedy Entertainment has specialised in making cinematic single-player action games featuring a strong central character.

Remedy Entertainment's founding members were Samuli Syvahuoko, Markus Maki, Sami Nopanen, John Kavaleff and Sami Vanhatalo.

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In 1997, Remedy Entertainment created a benchmarking tool, Final Reality, with the team later spinning off as a new sister company, Futuremark.

Remedy Entertainment wanted bullet time and slow motion, a hallmark of Hong Kong action films, to be the core mechanic for their game.

Remedy Entertainment introduced elements commonly found in crime fiction and film noir into the game.

Remedy Entertainment spent most of its time in 2000 further refining the game's graphics.

Remedy Entertainment went to the Theatre Academy of Finland to study screenwriting to be able to write a more "ambitious" story.

Remedy Entertainment was no longer involved with the franchise after Max Payne 2, but Rockstar consulted them when Max Payne 3 reached its final stage of production.

Remedy Entertainment was inspired by Stephen King's novels, Twin Peaks, ghost towns in the American Northwest, and tornado patterns, and they invited a landscape architect to serve as the game's consultant.

Remedy Entertainment pushed for a PC version after the game's launch, and Microsoft greenlit its production in mid-2011.

Remedy Entertainment began developing different prototypes for Alan Wake 2.

Remedy Entertainment had experimented with transmedia storytelling in Alan Wake, and Microsoft hoped Remedy would further expand the live-action component in their next project, Quantum Break.

Remedy Entertainment built a new game engine for the game known as Northlight.

In 2013, Remedy Entertainment expanded its board of directors, adding Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games, and Christian Fredriksson, chief executive of security firm F-Secure to the board.

Chief executive officer Matias Myllyrinne left Remedy Entertainment to join Wargaming, with former CEO of RedLynx, Tero Virtala, replacing him and the interim CEO Markus Maki.

In 2017, Remedy Entertainment launched an initial public offering to raise funds to develop projects concurrently, and became a public company listed on the NASDAQ First North Finland exchange.

Remedy Entertainment announced they were working on the single-player component of Smilegate's free-to-play first-person shooter CrossFire 2 .

Remedy Entertainment is working on a new version of the original CrossFire, called CrossFire HD.

Remedy Entertainment fully acquired the publishing rights to Alan Wake in July 2019 from Microsoft, including a one-time €2.

The larger game is part of Remedy Entertainment's "shared universe" between Alan Wake and Control, which Lake said they have had the idea of developing for ten years.

Remedy Entertainment announced plans to open a new studio in Sweden in the first half of 2022, as based on their experience from working during the COVID-19 pandemic, they found a need for a hybrid work model for their Sweden-based staff.

Part of this decision came about when Remedy Entertainment had been working on the cancelled Alan Wake 2 prototype around 2013, at the time based on the same engine used in Alan Wake which had limited their abilities for storytelling.

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Remedy Entertainment added that themes like "World War II, dragons, hardcore sci-fi, or women with tight leather outfits" are something the studio would avoid.