Steel yourself for great disappointment: A game that you probably had no idea was in the making has been cancelled. Massively OP grief counselors are standing by to take your call.
Remedy Entertainment, which is famous for its past work on the Alan Wake and Control franchises, announced that itis pulling the plug on Project Kestrel. This was a co-op multiplayer title that started development in November last year and would’ve been co-published with Tencent.
The studio said that while Project Kestrel “showed early promise,” this move “allows Remedy to focus more on the other games in its portfolio” by moving team members and resources to other projects that are further along in development – in other words, presumably no layoffs.
“Codename Kestrel showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage. 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.”
