The team at Finland's Red Hill Games.
The team at Finland's Red Hill Games.
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Former Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne starts Redhill Games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Matias Myllyrinne, former CEO of Alan Wake creator Remedy Entertainment and a developer exec at Wargaming, has assembled a grew of video game veterans to start Redhill Games.

The Helsinki, Finland-based studio will focus on creating high-quality titles targeting underserved markets in the game industry. The company is already working on a new tactical shooter PC game. I once had a great time interviewing Myllyrinne in a sauna 300 feet above ground at the Slush conference in Helsinki. He took it in stride, though the sauna was a bit shaky hanging off a cable attached to a crane.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.