11th February 2018 New Faces at Remedy [Narrative & Community]

New faces joined Remedy this week with more arriving in the following days! As there's been so many job openings these past few months, this is by no means a complete list. But I wanted to share with you some of the new members announced through the studio's social media channels.

First up, we have a new Associate Community Manager! Her name is Vida Starčević who joins the company in time for Crossfire 2 and "P7". Her prior experience includes being a writer and production assistant for a mobile game company, Nanobit Ltd and writer for gaming magazine, Reboot. You can follow her on twitter: @vidaisonline.

A department which has seen a huge amount of change these past few months is the narrative team. Anna Megill joined the company as a Senior Writer last Summer and became the studio's Narrative Lead in the autumn, following Mikko Rautalahti's departure. She announced her new team last week which has taken four months in the making.

• Ben Gelinas is formally from BioWare having worked on titles such as Mass Effect 3, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Dragon Age Inquisition. Ben's latest game, delightfully titled Speed Dating for Ghosts, is due to come out this week! 
• Brooke Maggs joins Remedy as a writer in residence, through the Film Vic Women In Games program. She has worked on titles including The Gardens Between, Paperbark, Florence, and Earthlight.
• Angel Leigh McCoy is joining Remedy already with a huge amount of experience in writing for games. Best known for her horror and dark fiction, she is an published author whose work stretches from novels, to video games (Guild Wars 2) and tabletop games.
• Clay Murphy also has a vast amount of video game writing experience, covering a wide range of IPs including Blade & Soul, Diablo: Reaper of Souls, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Heroes of the Storm, Mob Wars La Coas Nostra, Viking Clan, Zombie Slayer and Pirate Clan.

In addition to the new recruits, there's also a couple of familiar faces on the narrative team. Eevi Korhonen is Remedy's Narrative Designer and Sam Lake is Remedy's Creative Director.

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3rd February 2018 Rockstar's Humble Bundle (w. Max Payne)

Rockstar is the focus for this week's Humble Bundle which is supporting the Rainforest Alliance! A number of Rockstar titles are being offered as part of the charity campaign, including all three Max Payne titles.

For those who don't know much about the project, Humble Bundle works with developers and publishers to offer game bundles, merchandise, or digital goodies in a "pay what you want" scheme. A portion of the proceeds goes to a selected charity, and you can tailor the donation so that X amount goes towards the charity and X amount goes to the developers. Each campaign is broken down into a number of tiers, starting with the "$1 or more" and increasing in price. With each new tier, you unlock more goodies (for instance buying tier three includes tier one and two).

So far over 130,000 bundles have been purchased!

"$1 or More" Tier One: Manhunt, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto III, and Max Payne. "Pay More Than The Average" Tier Two:  Bully: Scholarship Edition, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, L.A. Noire, and Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. "Pay $15 or More" Tier Three: LA Nore: DLC Bundle, Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, and Max Payne 3 (plus Max Payne 3 Rockstar Pass).

The campaign runs out in just over nine days!

Get Grand Theft Auto IV, Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto III in our Rockstar bundle. Ain't life grand?https://t.co/nlTxnJklYp pic.twitter.com/sGbOHlrKBz

— Humble Bundle (@humble) February 3, 2018

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2nd February 2018 Poets of the Fall's New Single, False Kings, Out Now!

Poets of the Fall have released their latest single and teaser of their upcoming yet-untitled album. The single is called False Kings and was uploaded with a series of announcements and glimpses at what the band has in store for the rest of the year.

This year marks a huge milestone for the band as they celebrate their fifteenth anniversary. They're planning an international tour (Finnish tour dates currently announced) with the new album available later in the year. So if you attend you might here some tracks before anyone else! The current gigs are announced in Turku, Joensuu, Anjala, Tampere, Jämsä, Kuopio, Helsinki, Lahti, Seinäjoki, Oulu, and Kalajoki.

The main bit of news to come from the day is of course the single which had been the main focus of the teasers throughout January. False Kings is available to download or stream via a number of digital distributors such as Spotify, Amazon, iTunes and more. There's also a music video accompanying the single's launch which can be seen on the band's YouTube channel. It's pretty different from its predecessors but it has a rather cool James Bond vibe about it which fits their group really well! You can check out the video below:

Our new single FALSE KINGS is out! Watch the video (with lyrics): https://t.co/CD68m7jyuq
Download & stream: https://t.co/rJ5WKGGvWB

The first dates of our 15th Anniversary Tour are also here - we are working on shows outside Finland, so stay tuned! https://t.co/BqAJ5pUjPS pic.twitter.com/JUbo98Uyyg

— Poets of the Fall (@PoetsOfTheFall) January 31, 2018

Our new single False Kings is out, and while you may already know what it sounds like, have you wondered what it _looks_ like? Probably not, but here you have it. This is the “overview” of the song structure as I see it when I put everything together. pic.twitter.com/TxSjANfXz1

— Markus Kaarlonen (@DomesticMachine) January 31, 2018

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1st February 2018 Terhi Kauppi Announced as Remedy's New CFO [Updated]

Following Mika Reini's departure from the studio on January 19th, today Remedy announced that they have appointed a new CFO (Chief Financial Officer) to take up the mantle.

Terhi Kauppi will be joining the studio as the new CFO, and bringing with her a vast background in company financial management across a number of industries. She was previously CFO at  Pontos Oy and First Hop Oy, as well as holding financial admin positions at Nokia. Kauppi is currently serving as the Chief Financial Officer at Asiakastieto Group Oyj. She will be joining Remedy on May 14th 2018. 

Until then, Niko Stark (Remedy's Senior Financial Controller) will continue to take on the responsibilities of the position until the end the transition.

31/5: A few quick changes for the page. Remedy has a female CFO, which is pretty awesome! I'm always excited about more women join the team, especially in a top position like this. The original source was a press release that was translated from Finnish to English. The pronoun for her/she is "hän", which is also the same word for his/he, annnnnd of course Google Translate automatically goes towards the "he/his". So I had to do a quick change of pronouns on this page. It's something that I'm going to keep an eye out for in the future.  

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