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COMMUNITY SHOWCASE - FADEN FRIDAY - JULY 2024

FADEN FRIDAY - JULY 2024

Our #FadenFriday July community blog is now LIVE! It's been almost 5 years since we first launched Control and you continue to blow us away with your talents! Thank you so much for the love.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos and tag us using #FadenFriday on X. Alternatively, link us up to your best captures below and we'll include our favourites in our next blog at the end of August.

Check out our favourite submissions from July 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayJuly24

(Photo credit: CaptureControl)

COMMUNITY SHOWCASE - FADEN FRIDAY - JUNE 2024

FADEN FRIDAY - JUNE 2024

Welcome to our April 2024 #FadenFriday showcase! Once again we’ve been blown away by your talents. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the continued show of support. It really does mean everything to the team at Remedy Entertainment and 505 Games.

Want to be in with a chance of getting featured on our website? Upload your photos and tag us using #FadenFriday on X. Alternatively, link us up to your best captures below and we'll include our favourites in our next blog at the end of July.

Check out our favourite submissions from June 2024 below.

https://505.games/FadenFridayJune24

(Photo credit: TheDogtor)

Remedy and Tencent's co-op multiplayer game Kestrel has been cancelled

Remedy have called it quits on the project codenamed Kestrel. The co-op multiplayer game was an original IP being made with the backing of Tencent, but now Remedy say they've cancelled it to allow them to focus on "other games in our portfolio", all of which are based on "existing franchises".


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Alan Wake 2 creator, Remedy Entertainment, cancels multiplayer game in favour of existing IP

Remedy Entertainment - creators of Alan Wake 2 and Control - has announced the cancellation of Codename Kestral. This early-in-development premium multiplayer title has been in the works for a little bit, but has seemingly been thrown to the wind in favour of focusing more on established IP.

This news came courtesy of an official post on the Remedy Entertainment website. The decision is notably coined by both Remedy Entertainment and Tencent, the chinese corporation that owns over 15% of the developer.

"Remedy Entertainment Plc (“Remedy”) and Tencent Plc (“Tencent”) have decided to cancel the game project codename Kestrel. Codename Kestrel had a small team working on the early concept stage of a premium cooperative multiplayer game. The game was being developed by Remedy, co-financed with Tencent, and to be co-published with Tencent. The project started in November 2023 as a reboot from an earlier project codenamed Vanguard."

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