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Control developer Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that it's started working on yet another new game, meaning the studio has six publicly announced games yet to arrive.
In Remedy's latest business review, CEO Tero Virtala explained that, as of last quarter, "Almost all of our internal Control developers have now moved on to work on other Remedy projects, including a new, exciting early-phase project."
Asked for comment on whether that game was separate to Remedy's previously announced projects, Virtala replied: "Yes, we have a new project, but it is in very, very early stages. Nothing more to expand on that.” Remedy didn't comment on if that new project had a publisher at this time.
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This means that, publicly, Remedy is now working on six as-yet-unreleased games: it's creating single player modes for first-person shooters CrossfireX and Crossfire HD, two projects for Epic Games set in the Control/Alan Wake universe (one billed as a AAA game, and the other as a smaller project), unrevealed free-to-play co-op game Vanguard, and the new, early-stage project.
It's worth bearing in mind that since being founded in 1996, Remedy has released just 9 games, meaning this is a huge increase in scope from just a few years ago.
It's a major increase in project size for Remedy, and Virtala adds in his quarterly review that the company has expanded to 281 employees – and it doesn't seem to be stopping growth anytime soon. "We have now started to implement the next phase of our strategy to reach ambitious long-term growth objectives," wrote Virtala. That growth can only have been helped by the fact that Remedy recently had its biggest ever financial year, without releasing a single game.
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