After Developer Studio Remedy in February 2021 brought his award-winning third-person shooter “Control” on the Playstation 5, the studio briefly revealed, it would currently work on five new projects . One of them was officially announced as part of a press release , namely a multiplayer spin-off.

Control: partnership with 505 games proclaimed, multiplayer spin-off & sequel confirmed

In said communication, the studio announces an agreement with 505 games, from which several joint projects should emerge. It was announced with “Codename Condor” a new cooperative multiplayer shooter for four players. The title will be a pure PVE Game (Player Vs. Environment), which is to be developed and published by both companies.

“Codename Condor” is a spin-off to “Control” and is expected to play in the same universe accordingly. The new game is to build on Remedys’s own northlight engine and its tools and published for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X / S and the PC. A detailed release date is still unknown.

Rami and Raffi Galante, CO-CEOs of the Digital Bros Group, which belongs to 505 games, show enthusiastically about how to continue cooperation with Remedy “and further expanding. […] As a multiplayer game, Condor ‘has the potential to bind the gaming community in the long term and to contribute longer than traditional games to product sales of 505 games. “The shooter’s development budget amounts to $ 25 million.

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Furthermore, REMEDY and 505 games intend to expand the “Control” brand in the future. Both parties confirm a continuation that should be “with a higher budget” than the predecessor. “This new agreement supports the goals of Remedy to build our games to develop long-term franchises” as well as “scale-up games” explains Tero Virtala, CEO of Remedy Entertainment.

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