Late last month, Annapurna Interactive announced a partnership with Remedy to develop Control 2 and bring that franchise and Alan Wake to film and television. But now, internal disagreements over the future of the company has led Annapurna's entire interactive team to resign from the company. Via Bloomberg, the resignations occurred after discussions between Annapurna founder Megan Ellison and Annapurna Interactive president Nathan Gary failed to come to terms on a deal that would have spun out the gaming section as a standalone company. The report notes that Ellison ended the negotiations, which led Gary, division co-heads Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, and the rest of the team to exit the company. The team subsequently released the following statement to Bloomberg. "All 25 members of the Annapurna Interactive team collectively resigned. This was one of the hardest decisions we have ever had to make and we did not take this action lightly." Continue Reading at GameSpot
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