Remedy Finds New CEO in Former EA Exec Jean-Charles Gaudechon

Control and Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has named Jean-Charles Gaudechon arsenic its caller CEO.

The company’s committee of directors announced the quality with a station connected its website today. Co-founder Markus Mäki volition proceed to service arsenic interim CEO until the enactment alteration takes effect March 1, 2026.

“I’m excited and honored to articulation Remedy astatine a pivotal time,” Gaudechon said successful a statement. “The workplace has a unsocial originative individuality and a beardown pipeline. My committedness is to support what makes it special, present exceptional games, and standard Remedy successful a mode that builds lasting value.”

Mäki took implicit arsenic interim CEO aft erstwhile Remedy CEO, Tero Virtala, resigned from his presumption successful October 2025. It was a abrupt shakeup that arrived aft the studio’s summertime multiplayer FPS and its archetypal self-published game, FBC: Firebreak, failed to impressment connected a commercialized and captious level (we gave it a 6/10). Virtala was with Remedy for conscionable implicit 9 years, leaving the Espoo, Finland-based crippled institution to hunt for a semipermanent replacement.

We present cognize Gaudechon has been picked to capable the role. His acquisition successful the manufacture has seen him service astatine EA arsenic a workplace caput and enforcement shaper implicit titles similar Battlefield Heroes, arsenic good arsenic a wide manager and enforcement shaper for Eve Online developer CCP Games. Now, he’ll oversee a institution helium says “has the dependable and the ambition to beryllium a pillar of the industry’s future.”

“We volition enactment adjacent to players, gain their clip and trust, and fortify our independency successful however we physique and people our games, portion continuing to enactment intimately with the partners who person supported america on the way,” the soon-to-be CEO added. “I volition beryllium moving to Finland with my household and I’m incredibly excited astir getting to enactment straight with the squad astatine the studio.”

Meanwhile, fans of Remedy’s enactment are looking guardant to its mind-bending sequel, Control: Resonant. Announced astatine the 2025 Game Awards, the follow-up is expected to motorboat sometime this twelvemonth for PC and consoles. Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes are besides successful improvement and expected to motorboat astatine an unspecified constituent successful the future.

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