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It seemed like Annapurna Interactive had ambitious plans for the future, especially when it was revealed that it was partnering with Remedy to publish Control 2. But today, we find that All Annapurna Interactive employees have resigned and this could put all the products associated with the Californian company in serious trouble. A turn of events that Annapurna Pictures has tried to downplay.
The information would arrive from Bloombergwho would have exposed that the company's staff had been in talks with the parent company Annapurna Pictures about the possibility of spinning off the first as its own independent entity. An unsuccessful negotiation that would have ended with a mass resignation after the resignation of President and co-founder of Annapurna Interactive Nathan Gary.
All Annapurna Interactive employees have resigned after failing to reach an agreement with the parent company
Everything would come after several weeks of negotiations between the different parts of the infrastructure, where we serve a Annapurna Pictures' video game division's request for independence, which is a larger infrastructure focused on different areas of entertainment. However, this infrastructure had been put to good use when agreements had been reached with Remedy to produce film and television adaptations of Alan Wake and Control.
But the subsidiary, Annapurna Interactive, is a publishing house that has achieved important milestones thanks to titles such as What Remains of Edith Finch, Outer Wilds, Stray, Cocoon, among others, who have been involved in a series of claims against their parent company, Annapurna Pictures, to establish new points of contact within the company since then, and were currently unclear whether their agreements with the company would be honoured. Following the latest meetings, and following the resignation of its top executive, All Annapurna Interactive employees have resigned.
Megan Ellison, who has refused to accept Gary's demands, claims that “Our top priority is to continue supporting our developer and publisher partners during this transition.”indicating that “We are committed not only to our existing games portfolio, but also to expanding our presence in the interactive space as we continue to look for opportunities to take a more integrated approach to linear and interactive storytelling across film and television, games and theatre.”.
Remedy's projects are moving forward as planned. Control 2 is reportedly playable while Max Payne remake enters production
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With this, the publisher's situation now is to put another of the founders at the helm, Hector Sanchez, guaranteeing that the planned plan will continue and all existing agreements and contracts will be fulfilled. And among all these projects we find some interesting titles, as is the case with Control 2, but also games like Silent Hill: Townfall,We Kill Monsters, The Lost Wild or Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth. There are many interesting projects that could have been left in limbo and that, for now, seem to continue under the label of the Californian company.