One of my favorite game publishers, this is wild (and not the Outer kind of wild). I’m super curious if the entire staff will start their own publishing company (which I imagine is harder to do without the financial backing of a billionaire’s daughter) or if they’ll split off and go their separate ways.

I’m also very curious if this will start changing the kinds of games Annapurna publishes or if they’ll still take interest in odd and niche games that need a publisher. I wish I knew more about the dispute here but time will tell what happens next at some point.

Didn’t they just sign a large deal with Remedy? Yikes.

Edit: Yup, details here: https://investors.remedygames.com/announcements/remedy-entertainment-plc-inside-information-remedy-and-annapurna-announce-a-strategic-partnership-agreement-on-control-2-and-bringing-control-and-alan-wake-to-film-and-television/

Seems as if the team was demanding equity in the form of the spinoff, and ownership ultimately decided they weren’t going to give it to them, and now their whole team quit. Power move. Now ownership is going to try to get some of those people back by offering them huge sign on bonuses and equity, wonder how many are going to go for it, or if they’ll stand pat as a group.

Hopefully they’ll be able to spin up an alternative studio/publisher that gamedevs can trust

While I’m not sure if the people who quit were part of Anapurna’s previous controversies, this still seems like a poor move from Ellison by losing skilled employees in this fashion

Power to the Anapurna staff that quit✊