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Juha Vainio


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Head of the CONTROL Franchise
Executive Producer of CONTROL Resonant

at Remedy Entertainment

Game Production, Project Management, and Leadership


As the Executive Producer of CONTROL Resonant, I direct the Directors, lead the development team, own the development budget, and am accountable for everything, including the creative and the commercial success of the game.

As the Head of the CONTROL Franchise, I own, supervise, and am accountable for all CONTROL-related undertakings at Remedy, including strategy, development, production, and PnL.

We shipped CONTROL (a AAA 3rd-person supernatural action-adventure game), and two paid expansions, on PS4, XBox One, Epic Game Store (PC), Steam (PC), GOG (PC), Amazon Luna, Nintendo Switch (Cloud Version), PS5, XBox Series X|S, Google Stadia, and Apple Mac OS.

CONTROL has won over 80 awards, out of which over 20 were Game Of The Year awards. As of end-of-2025, CONTROL has sold over 5 million copies in addition to being available for subscribers of e.g. PS5 Plus and MS Gamepass.

Highly regarded public speaker
[Link: Public speaking experience]

About

Head of the CONTROL Franchise,
Executive Producer of CONTROL Resonant / Remedy

12/2017 - present


Board Member / Finnish Game Development Studios' Association
01/2022 - 12/2023

Board Member, Operative Lead, Treasurer / IGDA Finland
11/2016 - 12/2018

CEO, Founder, Executive Producer / Epic Owl
12/2014 - 11/2018

Head of UX/UI in Games and Gaming Machines / Veikkaus
9/2016 - 12/2017

Product Lead, EP, Senior Producer / Rovio
9/2012 - 12/2014

R&D Manager, Project Manager, Tech Lead / Nokia
6/2005 - 6/2012

Senior SW Engineer / Teleca, Geracap, VDSL Systems, Stonesoft
5/2000 - 5/2005


Master of Science (Technology), Computer Science / Helsinki University of Technology
5/2001

Links
My guest writer article on IGN about a bug in CONTROL

Playing CONTROL with Remedy on CONTROL's 6th Anniversary

Playing more CONTROL with Remedy


(My frequently featured Gamasutra.com blog
My interview in Talouselämä (in Finnish)
My interview in Nordic Game Bits
My interview in Good News from Finland)

Remedy Entertainment Plc
CONTROL
CONTROL Resonant


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