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.

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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.

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.

Interview with Markus Mäki at PCGH.

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.

The Escapist interview with Lasse Seppänen

Online magazine The Escapist interviewed Remedy’s Production Lead, Lasse Seppänen. The interview takes a look at how Remedy is run from a development perspective. Lasse explains why outsourcing and using middleware is important in today’s world of game development.

No new news on Alan Wake though but it’s worth the read anyway. So check it out.

Part 3 of Remedy Interview at YouGamers

The 3rd and final part of the Remedy interview at YouGamers is now up for your perusal. “The Power Behind Wake” focuses all on the technology behind Alan Wake.

You can have a read of it all here.