Alex Garden
Alex Garden is the CEO of Vancouver-based game developer Relic Entertainment, which he co-founded with Luke Moloney in 1997. In February 2005, he founded the company iVALET Systems Inc. to develop an advanced parking system. In July 2005, he co-founded Klei Entertainment, a Vancouver-based video game development studio, with Jamie Cheng. On November 3, 2006, Alex Garden joined Nexon to run Nexon's North American game development studio, Nexon Publishing North America. In October, 2009, Alex Garden joined Microsoft to work in their games division, Microsoft Game Studios. On April 23, 2014, Zynga announced that Alex Garden was hired to become President of Zynga Studios with a start date of May 5, 2014. On 13 April 2016 Alex Garden returned to Relic Entertainment as CEO. In 2016 Garden founded Zume Pizza.
Remedy Entertainment
Founded in August 1995 by members of demoscene group Future Crew, Remedy Entertainment created their first game, "Death Rally", in a team member's basement. Apogee Software served as the game's publisher, and continued to be involved in the production of their next title, "Max Payne", which received critical acclaim upon release. The game was followed by a sequel, "". After spending seven years working on the "Max Payne" franchise, the developer decided to create a new intellectual property called "Alan Wake". This title was once suspected to be vaporware because of the length of time it took to produce and release. It gained a cult following when it was released in 2010, though its sales were not enough to justify the production of a sequel. Remedy decided to pursue a new project named "Quantum Break", which further expanded the live-action component of "Alan Wake". The team had transitioned to become a multi-project studio since 2016, and had three projects in development, including "Control" and the single-player portions of "CrossFire HD" and "CrossFire 2".