{"id":81902,"date":"2026-05-26T14:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=81902"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:37:14","slug":"alan-wake-and-control-should-have-sold-more-new-remedy-ceo-says-as-he-accepts-skepticism-of-his-former-ea-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=81902","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake and Control ‘Should Have Sold More,’ New Remedy CEO Says, as He Accepts Skepticism of His Former EA Background"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remedy franchises such as Alan Wake and Control “should have sold more”, the company’s new CEO has said. <\/p>\n

Jean-Charles Gaudechon was appointed as Remedy’s new boss back in March<\/a>, prompting raised eyebrows from fans of the studio’s offbeat single-player fare. Gaudechon’s resume includes nearly five years at EA, with a particular focus on the PC and mobile versions of FIFA. Since then, he’s worked on various sport-related ventures, including two years running a fantasy NFL platform.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with The Game Business<\/a>, Gaudechon acknowledged some of the skepticism surrounding his past while stating that he knew Remedy’s “one-of-a-kind” creativity needed to be “protected.” At the same time, Gaudechon said he believed the company “could make some improvements” to ensure its work found a wider audience. <\/p>\n

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“Remedy is one of the few studios which is genuinely supported by players,” Gaudechon said. “Even my announcement was something I loved, because people were protecting Remedy. When I was announced, people from the industry and close friends sent me messages saying things like: ‘JC, that’s awesome. Congrats.’ And the last line was, ‘Don’t f*** it up.’ It was: ‘We love Remedy so much. Don’t f*** it up.’ That shows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remedy franchises such as Alan Wake and Control “should have sold more”, the company’s new CEO has said. Jean-Charles Gaudechon was appointed as Remedy’s new boss back in March, prompting raised eyebrows from fans of the studio’s offbeat single-player fare. Gaudechon’s resume includes nearly five years at EA, with a particular focus on the PC…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":81904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81902"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81906,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81902\/revisions\/81906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}