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Alan Wake developer Treatment Leisure has introduced it is acquired the total rights to its Management collection from writer 505 Video games for €17m.
As detailed in an investor announcement on Treatment’s web site, the rights acquisition – which incorporates these for publishing, distribution, and advertising – cowl the total Management franchise, together with the supernatural third-person shooter’s 2019 debut recreation, the upcoming Management 2 and multiplayer spin-off codenamed Condor, and all future titles within the collection.
Treatment’s publishing settlement with 505 Video games for Management 2 and Condor terminates instantly, and 505 will proceed to function the writer of Management till thirty first December this yr, when the transition interval ends.
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Treatment’s acquisition announcement notes the roughly €17m its forking out for the rights to Management “equals the quantity that 505 Video games has paid for the event of codename Condor and Management 2 thus far together with a minor premium”. The web buy worth can be paid in three money instalments over the subsequent twelve months.
Right this moment’s announcement does, in fact, really feel like just a little little bit of historical past repeating; again in 2019 Treatment revealed it had come to an agreement with Microsoft to amass the rights to Alan Wake for €2.5 million – a transfer which resulted within the previously Xbox-exclusive cult traditional making the bounce to different platforms earlier than getting the remaster remedy and, final yr, a long-awaited sequel.
As for Management 2 and venture Condor, each had been announced back in November 2022. They’re, nonetheless, doubtless nonetheless some important means off, with Management 2 confirmed to nonetheless be within the the “proof-of-concept” stage last October, whereas Condor – as with Treatment’s Max Payne 1 and a couple of remakes – was stated to have “progressed into the manufacturing readiness stage”.
