Key Takeaways
- Final week, all workers members of Annapurna Interactive left the corporate.
- Treatment Leisure has clarified that this has no bearing on its partnership with Annapurna Photos.
- Annapurna Photos is partially funding the manufacturing of Management 2 in alternate for the rights to adapt Alan Wake and Management for TV and movie.
Management 2 developer Treatment Leisure has clarified that the latest shakeup at Annapurna Interactive has no bearing on its partnership with Annapurna Photos. Final month, Treatment Leisure struck a cope with Annapurna Photos that may see the latter assist fund the manufacturing of Treatment’s action-adventure sequel Management 2 in alternate for the rights to adapt Alan Wake and Management for TV and movie.
Following a dispute with its management, Annapurna’s recreation publishing department, Annapurna Interactive, introduced final week that its complete workers of 25 staff had left the corporate. This got here after Annapurna Interactive reportedly failed to achieve approval to separate off into its personal firm. The information shocked recreation followers, as Annapurna Interactive has maintained a popularity of being one of many trade’s premier indie publishers, recognized for video games like Outer Wilds, What Stays of Edith Finch, Journey, and others. Many followers of Annapurna’s video games have been left questioning concerning the builders presently partnered with the writer, and whether or not upcoming titles like Wanderstop, Mixtape, and Lushfoil Images Sim have been negatively impacted. Though its complete workers has left, Annapurna has but to formally shut down the now-empty gaming division.
Within the aftermath of Annapurna Interactive’s mass exodus, Treatment Leisure’s Communications Director, Thomas Puha, set the document straight for avid gamers apprehensive concerning the upcoming sequel Management 2. On Twitter, Puha clarified that, since Annapurna Interactive is a separate division from Annapurna Photos, its cope with the latter stays unhurt by Annapurna Interactive’s workers departures. Puha reminded avid gamers that Annapurna Photos is simply co-funding Management 2, and that Treatment remains to be self-publishing the title.
Management 2 Is Unaffected By Annapurna Interactive State of affairs
Because the deal between Treatment Leisure and Annapurna Photos is protected following the latest happenings with Annapurna’s gaming division, followers of Treatment’s video games can nonetheless stay up for the movie and TV variations of Alan Wake and Management promised by the deal. Annapurna Photos has an amazing observe document, having labored on movies like Her, American Hustle, Phantom Thread, and extra just lately, the animated Netflix hit Nimona. With that in thoughts, and realizing the pedigree of Treatment’s storytelling in Alan Wake and Management, many are anxious to see what these initiatives have in retailer for followers.
As Alan Wake 2 was solely launched final yr, it’s going to probably be a number of extra years earlier than Treatment is able to unveil Management 2. The studio additionally has a number of different initiatives within the works for the time being, together with remakes of the primary two Max Payne video games and a multiplayer Management spinoff codenamed “Condor.” Alan Wake 2 followers are additionally nonetheless patiently awaiting the sport’s second DLC, The Lake Home, which is predicted to be launched someday in October.
