Control Ultimate Edition News

Control, 505 Games' surrealist action-adventure game, is coming to Steam this month, and it'll arrive with an Ultimate Edition that packs in both paid expansions. The Control Steam release date is set for August 27, and you'll be able to pick from either the base game or the ultimate edition when it arrives. The Ultimate Edition will arrive on the Epic Games store two weeks later, on September 10.

505 Games announced the Ultimate Edition in a blog post that includes a new trailer, which you can view below. There's nothing spoilery in there, it's more of a mood-setting piece that serves as a chance for Control to flex some of those critical plaudits it snapped up last year when it launched.

On PC, the sole appeal of the Ultimate Edition will be the inclusion of the expansions, The Foundation and AWE. The latter of these has long been suspected to place Control in the same fictional universe as developer Remedy's Alan Wake series, and Remedy recently confirmed these rumours in a blog post that also hinted at an upcoming game set in the same world.

Read the rest of the story...

RELATED LINKS:

Alan Wake and Control are in the 'Remedy Connected Universe', new game on the way

Control, Alan Wake dev teases two new "next-gen" games for PC

Epic Games reveals the next batch of Store exclusives

Ever since the Alan Wake Easter egg was found in Control, it was believed the two adventure games shared a universe on some level. Developer Remedy Games has confirmed the assumption, with Control DLC and full, new game on the horizon.

In a blog post, Remedy creative director Sam Lake announced the 'Remedy Connected Universe', an umbrella term that will encompass some of Remedy's projects going forward. "For over 10 years, we've had a crazy dream. The idea that the tales told in some of our games would be connected to each other, a connected world of stories and events with shared characters and lore," Lake writes. "Each game is a stand-alone experience, but each game is also a doorway into a larger universe with exciting opportunities for crossover events."

The stories will feed into each other, sometimes a tad ambiguously like the Alan Wake Easter egg in Control, or explicitly, like the upcoming Alan Wake DLC for Control that's the first proper release in the RCU. It's the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but for Remedy's IP, and it's something the studio's been working towards for sometime, before getting the opportunity to make it a reality. "I'm absolutely thrilled to tell you that now, the time has come to take the first concrete step on this road, establishing Remedy Connected Universe," Lake says. "You have no idea how happy it makes me to be able to finally make this statement."

Read the rest of the story...

RELATED LINKS:

Control, Alan Wake dev teases two new "next-gen" games for PC

Epic Games reveals the next batch of Store exclusives

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Control, and Sekiro are up for BAFTA game awards - here's the full nominees list