Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has introduced it is acquired the total rights to its Control sequence from writer 505 Games for €17m.

As detailed in an investor announcement on Remedy’s web site, the rights acquisition – which incorporates these for publishing, distribution, and advertising – cowl the total Control franchise, together with the supernatural third-person shooter’s 2019 debut sport, the upcoming Control 2 and multiplayer spin-off codenamed Condor, and all future titles within the sequence.

Remedy’s publishing settlement with 505 Games for Control 2 and Condor terminates instantly, and 505 will proceed to function the writer of Control till thirty first December this yr, when the transition interval ends.

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Remedy’s acquisition announcement notes the roughly €17m its forking out for the rights to Control “equals the amount that 505 Games has paid for the development of codename Condor and Control 2 to date including a minor premium”. The internet buy worth might be paid in three money instalments over the subsequent twelve months.

Today’s announcement does, after all, really feel like slightly little bit of historical past repeating; again in 2019 Remedy revealed it had come to an agreement with Microsoft to amass the rights to Alan Wake for €2.5 million – a transfer which resulted within the previously Xbox-exclusive cult basic making the leap to different platforms earlier than getting the remaster therapy and, final yr, a long-awaited sequel.

As for Control 2 and undertaking Condor, each had been announced back in November 2022. They are, nevertheless, probably nonetheless some important approach off, with Control 2 confirmed to nonetheless be within the the “proof-of-concept” stage last October, whereas Condor – as with Remedy’s Max Payne 1 and a couple of remakes – was mentioned to have “progressed into the production readiness stage”.