Alan Wake and Control TV and movies look to be on the way from Annapurna, thanks to new partnership with Remedy over Control 2

Remedy’s done a thing. The studio has just announced it’s put together a partnership with Annapurna Interactive – you know, the folks who published that cat game and a bunch of other acclaimed indies – to help bankroll Control 2. As part of the deal, Annapurna’s getting the rights to bring Alan Wake and Control to TV and film screens.As announced in a press release that contains at least one joke about Finnish people having no emotions, Remedy’s done this with the aim of making sure Control 2 is the all-singing, all-dancing thing its developers want to deliver.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings The arrangement in unfun business terms is this: Annapurna becomes “a co-production and co-financing partner” on Control 2…

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Demon Slayer, Bleach, Dragon Ball, Naruto and now Death Note: Bandai Namco strengthens its stranglehold on licensed anime games

The name of a video game has been written down and rated by the Taiwanese ratings board. That name is Death Note: Killer Within, and it’s coming (at some point) to the PS4 and PS5, with Bandai Namco as its publisher.This was first spotted by Gematsu, of course. The staff there has gained quite the reputation for spotting these things as they pop up. There’s no word on what genre it’ll be as of yet, nor when it’ll come out, or which development team will be beind it, but it has indeed been rated. Cool stuff for old school anime fans.To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings This wouldn’t be the first Death Note game by any means. In fact, it looks like there have been four already, judging by a quick Google search. However, this would be the most recent appe…

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