Ilkka Villi talks Alan Wake

Finnish site Tietoviikko recently released an interview with Alan Wake himself, Ilkka Villi. Alan Wake was modelled after the Finnish actor and in the interview Villi mentions that he’s visited Remedy several times over the past couple of years, the most recent session time being last year.

Unfortunately we don’t have a translation of the article but Kotaku had a paragraph of the article translated where Ilkka mentions that being in a production this huge in Finland is the closest to being in Hollywood that he’ll ever get. If you are able to translate the article for us please contact us. Huge thanks to Nils (and also Henna Lehto) for providing translation to the original article. Click the ‘read more’ link below to view the article.

Alan Wake Interview (via Kotaku) | Read More

Alan Wake not listed at E3 2008

IGN has listed every videogame officially confirmed to be shown at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 08). Running from July 14 to July 17, the expo will showcase the year’s upcoming blockbuster titles. However, our most anticipated title, Alan Wake, is missing from the list of showcase games.

As you can expect Microsoft to be the primary marketer for the game, they should be including Alan Wake in their showcases whenever they feel the game is ready to be shown to the public. Their list for this year’s expo includes anticipated titles such as Fable 2, Gears of War 2, Halo Wars and Too Human.

Before coming to quick conclusions, IGN points out, the list includes every videogame that has been “officially confirmed” and that there is always the chance that companies will be keeping their surprises a secret until the show actually starts. We will just have to wait and see…

- IGN’s E3 List 2008 -

Alan Wake will not appear at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase 08

Computer And Videogames.com recently interviewed Microsoft Game Studios Shane Kim and in the interview he mentioned that Alan Wake will not be shown at the Spring Showcase as they are controlling the release of new information very carefully with Remedy.

“When you can announce a game and get people really excited about it, the last thing you want to do is show it before it’s ready. Alan Wake is pretty ambitious, in terms of what it’s trying to do. It’s taking a very different approach to storytelling and gameplay and it’s taking a lot of work to get it right.”

You can read the rest of the interview right here. Thanks Dennis for the heads up.

Media section dismantled.

Wait before you started screaming “Where am I going to see the screenshots!?” let me first explain that the media gallery was a real pain in the ass to keep up since we had screenshots in news posts and also in that gallery. We had to maintain each one and that was quite annoying.

Also since BrightFalls.net is not a fansite and the site is and has always been a news site dedicated to the game we thought we need to focus more on the news than on other sections like that.

Now having said all that the screenshots (and videos) have all been back posted in the news archives and can be viewed by using our handy topic filters on the right side (Screenshots, Videos). You can view all the screenshots (and videos heh) ever released through those filters, if you simply want to check out the latest media releases then head over to the official Alan Wake site.

Now that that’s happened we needed a focus on galleries within news post, which we have updated for you. All screenshots now have a handy navigation system embedded into the site, which will allow you to navigate through each gallery specific to the news post.

Eventually we aim to allow commenting on each image exactly like you can comment to news posts, but one step at a time people ;)

Questions? Comments? Let me know in the comments.

10 questions with Microsoft’s Shane Kim.

Yes we know it’s not really major news and that it’s been quite slow around here lately, we’ve had some interesting rumours surface in the past month that we were quick to dismiss as false. Just a heads up to everyone that we will only publish news stories here that aren’t rumours or false in any way, if we do we will specifically state it’s a rumour and should be treated as such.

Anyway now that’s out of the way onto the “news”. The Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Game Studios, Shane Kim recently answered 10 questions for gaming website Game Daily. In there he still mentions Alan Wake as one of the games that we can look forward to “later this year and beyond”, note the word beyond there.

You can head over here to read the interview.

Site move successful.

If you’re seeing this message it means you’re viewing the site on our brand new server. The server move was about as flawless as I could get it but unfortunately we had to lose a couple of the comments, since it was a fairly quiet period anyway it wasn’t too bad. This also means the site now allows you to register again, we apologize for the time the user registrations were down.

One quick announcement, the brightfalls.com and alanwakefaq.com domains will no longer point to the site. It is our next step in the transition to the brightfalls.net domain name. If you still use either of those I suggest you update your bookmarks!

Thanks!