Remedy, the Finnish developer behind the upcoming Control, has regained the rights to what is arguably its biggest game name, the supernatural horror franchise Alan Wake.
The developer, as reported in Global Newswire, has just received its royalties for previous games (totaling 2.5m Euros) and the publishing rights for Alan Wake, a series synonymous with Microsoft’s consoles, are now back in the hands of the independent Remedy, meaning there could be Alan Wake on multiple platforms in future.
Remedy previously held the IP rights for the franchise, but had claimed it wasn’t easy to get a planned Alan Wake 2 off the ground, with the publishing rights possibly a cause of that. It’s thought that any early development of Alan Wake 2 went on to build Remedy’s Xbox One title, Quantum Break.
So hopefully this means we’ll get more Alan Wake, and introduce the series to other platforms. When Alan Wake first debuted on the Xbox 360 in 2010, it’s episodic structure, complete with cliffhangers and all, gave video game horror an intriguing new slant. It was also perhaps the most Stephen King-like a game has ever been, even featuring a protagonist who is a writer. Given how in King is right now, maybe Wake could ride those coattails into fresh relevance.