FAQ Updated

Posted by Morry on 22/01/08

The Alan Wake FAQ has been updated with the latest information sourced from a brief email interview with Markus Maki, Director of Development at Remedy Games.

For all the latest information available on Alan Wake, view the Alan Wake FAQ, compiled from dozens of interviews and previews. The latest information covers topics such as the ever elusive release date and the technology used in the game.

We have also taken down the twitter feed due to some issues, we apologize for any inconvenience caused by this. You are still able to follow all of our updates via our RSS feed and our facebook group.

Interview with Markus Mäki at PCGH.

Posted by ADM on 22/01/08

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German site PC Games Hardware has an interview with Remedy’s Director of Development, Markus Mäki. The interview answers some basic questions that weren’t known before such as Quad Cores will receive up to 30% of a performance gain and the official name of the Alan Wake engine is .. well just that. Who would have known?

One thing to clarify from this interview is that the title states “DX10 support still uncertain” which can be misread as it being unlikely that Remedy will support DX10. Remedy is keeping quiet about anything DX10 related but I’m sure we’ll start hearing more and more as time goes on. Another thing is that it seems a lot of gaming sites out there (*cough* Kotaku *cough) are for some reason thinking that Alan Wake being Vista exclusive is “news”, even though that’s been known since 2006.

Keep hangin’ in there everyone.

Welcome back to Bright Falls!

Posted by ADM on 15/01/08

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Hello gang! We are proud to finally launch BrightFalls.net, the premier news source for Alan Wake and Remedy Entertainment.

We have been hard at work for the past couple of months developing a news site that allows you to interact and comment on the latest Alan Wake news direct from Remedy or the community. Through services like Facebook and our inbuilt RSS feed you are able to follow the news very easily.

Just a little history for all you new folk out there. BrightFalls.net has been around in some form or another since early 2005 where we launched the community site AlanWake.net, the first Alan Wake fansite on the net and what would later become the official community site. AlanWake.net went down at the start of 2006 where it was merged into AlanWake.com and can now be found in the form of the Alan Wake official forums. Since then the news was one area which wasn’t handled very well within the forums and there were a number of attempts to get a dedicated news site up.

BrightFalls.com was one of those attempts, which due to a database corruption prematurely exited the online world. BrightFalls.com no longer is running and for anyone who still has the bookmark for that site please update it to BrightFalls.net.

We tried to recover as much older news as we could and theres even a nice little Christmas present from Remedy which offers you a new screenshot. We know it’s not much but it’s the best we could do during this media blackout. If you crave some info on the game then may I suggest heading over and checking out our in-depth Alan Wake FAQ where we answer every single question currently known about the game?

So that’s about it. Browse around the site and be sure to comment on the news (don’t need to register but it would be nice, it would also allow you to enter competitions and more features in the future!). If theres something you’d like to see here then feel free to post a reply here.

We hope you like the new replacement for the Alan Wake news forum, BrightFalls.net.

Alan Wake mentioned in Microsoft post-keynote email.

Posted by ADM on 07/01/08

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Microsoft games chief Don Mattrick recently sent out a memo to all Microsoft staff, in that email Alan Wake was mentioned as being a release in 2008. Don stated:

In 2008 the hits will continue to come with exclusives including “Halo Wars,” “Too Human,” “Fable 2,” Alan Wake,” “Splinter Cell: Conviction,” and several exciting yet-to-be-announced titles.

Add another notch to the rumour list of Alan Wake being released this year.

You can view the full email here.

Max Payne Series on Steam!

Posted by ADM on 05/01/08

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Not really Alan Wake related but it’s news worthy anyway. Max Payne and Max Payne 2 are now available on Steam for $9.95 each or a special bundle pack for $14.95! These are also part of the Rockstar Collection which also includes the GTA series and other games as well for $59.95.

Unfortunately the Max Payne games still have issues on Vista but those who have found it hard to find the games in stores can now purchase them very easily.