Remedy Entertainment expands its board as gaming moves into new transition (interview)

Remedy Entertainment, the Finnish developer that brought us titles such as Max Payne and Alan Wake, always shoots high with its narrative-based video games. It is doing so again with its Microsoft Xbox One exclusive game, Quantum Break. But it is also navigating the transition to online and mobile titles. So the company is announcing today that it is adding two new members — Mike Capps, former president of Epic Games, and Christian Fredriksson, chief executive of security firm F-Secure — to Remedy’s board.

Remedy chief executive Matias Myllyrinne said in an interview with GamesBeat that the company wanted to strengthen its board at a time when the game industry is in transition. New consoles are coming, but a lot of the business is shifting to online and mobile games. Remedy has always been a mid-sized game developer with a few dozen employees working on a single major game at a time. But it has quietly expanded to more than a 100 people as it undertakes both a next-generation game and other unannounced work. Myllyrinne said that “the cards are being dealt again,” meaning that the console market is moving into a transition and everything is up for grabs.