Remedy Cancels Multiplayer Game Codename Kestrel - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 May 2024 / 1,854 Views
Remedy Entertainment announced it has cancelled the premium cooperative multiplayer game, Codename Kestrel, in order "to focus more on the other games in its portfolio."
The game was in the early concept stage and had a small team working on. It was being co-financed with Tencent and was to be co-published with Tencent. Development on the game started in November 2023 as a reboot from another game codenamed Vanguard.
The developers working on Codename Kestrel will be moved to other projects at the studio.
"Codename Kestrel showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage," said Remedy CEO Tero Virtala. "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."
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They have spent like 7 years working on this game, I seem to recall it being announced in 2017 as Project Vanguard, then in 2023 development got rebooted with a new codename, Kestrel. 7 years down the drain, I feel bad for all of the devs who worked on it over the years. But it's probably the right call to focus their development resources on Control 2, Project Condor (the Control co-op game), and the Max Payne remakes, when people think of Remedy they think of singleplayer narrative games, not multiplayer.
It never made it into full development though, it was basically prototyping and experimenting with concepts. Only a small number of people.
