Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind it Alan Wake Franchise and control, has announced that it has canceled one of its upcoming gaming projects. The studio is currently working on a number of sequels, remakes and spin-offs, but the cancellation is for an original game co-published with Tencent codenamed “Kestrel”.

“Remedy Entertainment Plc (“Remedy”) and Tencent Plc (“Tencent”) have decided to cancel the codename of the game project Kestrel,” Remedy’s post read today Investor blog. “Codenamed Kestrel was a small team working on the early concept stage of a premium multiplayer game.”

Kestrel was a reboot of an older project codenamed Vanguard, a multiplayer co-op shooter announced on Development in 2021. The title, developed using Unreal Engine 5, was supposed to have a AAA budget with Tencent as a major partner. However, in 2023, the two companies announced that Vanguard would be internally rebooted to go in a new direction, gaining the new codename “Kestrel”.

While the focus of co-op play would remain, the live service title was to be a paid experience rather than free-to-play. However, with the cancellation, the developers who worked on Kestrel are moved to other projects within Remedy.

Regarding the move, Remedy CEO Tero Virtala had the following to say:

“The Kestrel codename showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage. Our other projects have progressed well and are moving into the next stages of development, and the increased focus on them gives us advantages. We can reassign talented Kestrel developers to these other game projects, and many of our support functions receive additional focus in their actions.”

However, this is not the only multiplayer project that Remedy has in development. He has Project Condor, a co-op spin-off entry set in his collected universe of supernatural games. The studio also develops a control Sequels as well as remakes of classics Max Payne titles. No release timeframes have been announced yet for any of these projects.