Posted by Morry on 18/08/08
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Mika Reini, CFO at Remedy Games, has posted a short, but sweet statement declaring that our long-awaited game, Alan Wake, is still on the way.
Dear people,
We feel we owe you all a small heads up, and our apologies for lack of updates. This is just part of our psychological thriller, is it all real or imagined…
Seriously, yes, we’re still here and working hard on getting Alan Wake for you to enjoy. Sure, we’ve been in development for a long time and if everything had gone perfectly smoothly there probably would be a game out for you guys to play already. But designing a completely new game can be hard, and sometimes you need to take a detour to find the best route forward.
We want to entertain you guys in the best possible way and our team is putting in every effort possible in order for that to happen. That is the way Remedy wants to do things. I’m sure you will enjoy Alan Wake when we’re done.
Just follow the light…
- Mika
Link
Stay tuned to BrightFalls.net for all information regarding Alan Wake.
Posted by ADM on 21/07/08
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The recent news on Alan Wake making the rounds was the old Microsoft Vista promotion competition which was held early 2007. In this promotion the winner of the competition would have their face digitized and shown in the game.
The winner who goes by the nickname “duffty” on the Alan Wake forums posted about his experience over a year ago on the 2nd of July 2007:
“I want to thank remedy for showing myself and my mate round their offices a couple of weeks back. They are exactly what you expect.. friendly,hard working, fun, finnish, and bloody clever paople. Thanks again mika and the team who gave us their valuable time.
ps. use my ugly face as you wish. mark”
Recently this promotion resurfaced and was posted on some major gaming news sites and blogs and caused quite a stir due to a comment in the promotion which many people confused as confirmation that Alan Wake will be shown at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. The comment was “Let the games begin with a trip to Finland to be digitally mastered into Alan Wake’s world, then jet off to Tokyo to the 2008 Tokyo Games Show to be on the scene and on the screen!”
Markus Maki, Director of Development at Remedy Games, recently posted squashing this rumour stating:
“The Microsoft Vista promotion referring to TGS took place in 2007, and is old news - we’ve had the winner over for taking the pictures already.
Sorry for the confusion and possible disappointment, but this was not an annoucement that Wake would be shown at TGS 2008. Remedy’s team is just getting back from a bit of holiday and we haven’t had time to chat with Microsoft on upcoming shows/showings yet.”
I can safely say that Remedy is hard at work on Alan Wake and when they are ready to show information you’ll see it here. The game is not cancelled or abandonware.
For all currently known information you can check our extensive collection of quotes in our Alan Wake FAQ which is updated whenever new information is confirmed by Remedy.
Posted by ADM on 21/06/08
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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
Posted by Morry on 14/06/08
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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 -
Posted by ADM on 14/05/08
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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.
Posted by ADM on 16/04/08
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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.
