We have fun 30 years of constructing video games with new merch, a brand new ebook, and new artwork

Remedy was based in August 1995 in Espoo, Finland, and has its roots within the Finnish demoscene, and in one in all our founders’ basements.

“We started making video games in a basement in Espoo, Finland, likely because we wanted to escape the long and dark Finnish winters,” mentioned Remedy Entertainment’s co-founder and the Chairman of the Board Markus Mäki, wanting again on the previous thirty years. “We found the secret ingredient: an ocean’s worth of coffee, a lot of curiosity, and even a larger dose of passion. Those have kept us going and brought us to this moment, 30 years later. The offices have improved, and the coffee machines even more so. We remain curious and passionate about creating memorable experiences, and we’re eager to see where that takes us. Above all, we are incredibly grateful to all of our fans taking this trip with us (and for coffee).”

While thirtieth anniversary celebrations will proceed for the remainder of August and past, as we speak we kick them off with a number of actually particular and thrilling bulletins that we’ve got been wanting ahead to sharing with you for some time – so let’s get proper into it.

We commissioned Valentina Paz, and superior artist and valued member of the Remedy group, to create a chunk finest exhibiting all of Remedy’s authentic characters. Valentina was given full inventive freedom, and determined to make a chunk depicting a scene after an Old Gods of Asgard live performance. Can you determine everybody within the image?

Together with iam8bit we’re proud to current a novel line of merch to have fun our thirtieth anniversary. The Remedy thirtieth anniversary assortment contains bespoke merch from Control, Alan Wake, and Max Payne. There’s the Ashtray Maze ashtray and PJ set, the Cold Casey lunchbox, VHS tapes of Night Springs and Threshold Kids, the official Max Payne Low Resolution shirt, and rather more – and final however not least, the Oh Deer Diner thermos is making a comeback.  

• The Oh Deer Diner thermos goes on sale by way of iam8bit on twentieth August at 9am PT here.
• Pre-orders for the remainder of the iam8bit Remedy thirtieth anniversary assortment will go stay on twenty first August at 9am PT here.

We have teamed up with Lost in Cult to convey you Alan Wake: Design Works, a deep dive into the whole lot you have been ever inquisitive about in terms of the Alan Wake franchise.  

Alan Wake: Design Works by Lost in Cult launches on 18th August, 10am PT at www.lostincult.co.uk – go to the hyperlink to discover and pre-order all of the completely different editions!

Next week, we’re kicking off Remedy Games – a collection of steams on Twitch and YouTube the place we’ll play a few of our video games from begin to end and chat with the individuals who helped make them.

We begin Remedy Games on 27^th August, the sixth anniversary of Control, with Control!  

And another factor for this week! We wish to hear from our group on our 30^th anniversary. We’re asking you to inform us what Remedy’s video games imply to you within the type of a brief video, which we’ll put collectively into an anniversary tribute. We have some very unique, restricted Remedy (and Poets of the Fall, and Poe) swag {that a} choose few entries can win. We’ll be welcoming submissions to our anniversary video on 20^th August on our Discord server and social media channels. Look for more information there, and beneath the #RMD30 hashtag on socials!

You can discover extra information on the whole lot we’re doing for Remedy’s 30^th anniversary within the press release.

If you may have been with us for the reason that starting, or simply joined the Remedy group not too long ago – thanks. We couldn’t be making these video games with out your ardour and help.  

From Espoo with love,

Remedy Entertainment

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