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Alan Wake 2: So You’re Saying There’s a Chance?

Todd Schlickbernd — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:30:47 +0000

Remedy has noted that Alan Wake’s: American Nightmare, launching on XBLA on February 22, is not a sequel to Alan Wake but there might be hopes for one still. Yes! Flashlights!

Matias Myllyrinne, CEO of Remedy, told Game Informer some pretty awesome things regarding their approach to Alan Wake as a developer and their options as well. Remedy still owns the rights to Alan Wake, so if they want to make him into a kart racing game, that’s still on the table! Alan Wake: Flashlight Karts- sounds great right? Here’s what Matias actually had to say about the matter:

“Hopefully, we’ll have one or two surprises. I don’t know, I’m loving the digital [distribution] side and we’ll see how that evolves, but just being able to give people quick access to bite-size chunks of gaming is maybe more fun than working for years and years — taking the phone offline and closing the shutters– at least, this way, you’re able to react much more quickly to people’s desires and wishes… We’ll certainly continue with Wake. Right now we’re focusing on getting the PC out next week, then getting American Nightmare out. And it’s too early to talk about what our next move is, but we’ve obviously put things into motion.”

Ghosts and flashlights and thermoses full of coffee! I’ve never played an Alan Wake game but I’ve been told that’s the formula there, and those are all good things. Hopefully Remedy will do something sequel related in the future, but from the sounds of it they’re more interested in perhaps getting a little episodic up in here.

Alan Wake Coming to PC on February 16

Sam Naylor — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:28 +0000

Remedy Entertainment has announced that Alan Wake will be available on Steam on the 16th of February.

The Steam version of the game will be the first out, with other digital versions and a boxed edition coming later. On Valve‘s digital platform the game will be $29.99 for the game and DLC, and $34.99 for the Limited Collector’s Edition.

Markus Mäki, CTO at Remedy, said:

We’ve done our best to do justice to the PC version and do things the way they should be done for PC. The PC version looks absolutely beautiful. We’re bringing the game to life in a whole new way.

Remedy note the key differences with the PC version are as follows:

“Higher resolutions and higher fidelity”
Mouse and keyboard support, along with gamepad
Support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios
Multithreaded engine that takes advantage of quad core CPUs
Field of view adjustment and an option to hide the HUD
Works with AMD Eyefinity 3D 3-screen mode
Works with NVIDIA NVISION2 Stereoscopic 3D

New Alan Wake and Bioware Game to Be Announced at the VGAs

Justin Carter — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:50:37 +0000

Once again, the Spike network will be airing their yearly VGAs. Each year, the VGAs have a boatload of reveals for new games, and we’re starting to receive a hint as to what we might see. So far, Spike’s revealed that there’ll be announcements for the next Alan Wake game, a new Bioware title, and the full reveal of Metal Gear Solid: Rising.

As far as the former is concerned, this is won’t be Alan Wake 2, but it’s assumed to be the rumored Alan Wake game for the Xbox Live Arcade. Bioware’s game is the real mystery. It could be Dragon Age III, or it could be Jade Empire 2.

[Via Game Informer]

GDC11: Jon St. John Wants You To Play Rochard, And So Do We

Dave Oshry — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:34:24 +0000

I didn’t know much about Rochard before I got a chance to play it at the GDC. All I knew was that Jon St. John was in it. Usually, that’s good enough for me.

Jon has brought his balls of steel to the voice of this PSN exclusive title, and you’ll need thumbs of steel to get through it.

Rochard is a 2D side scrolling, puzzle solving platformer that combines gameplay similar to Bionic Commando Re-Armed with Portal-esque puzzling thanks to the G-lifter which works very much like the gravity gun from Half Life.

You’ll use your G-lifer to throw around boxes and other heavy space junk while manipulating gravity to solve your way and save the day. Watch this launch trailer to get a better idea of what I mean:

As I played Rochard I got the feeling that I was actually clever as I bounced around the space station manipulating gravity and solving puzzles. The controls are rather intuitive for the DualShock 3 and it makes things like jumping while controlling gravity and moving things with the G-lifter all at once “almost” seem easy.

Recoil promises not only an eight hour experience, but also that the G-lifter will always be given abilities so the game never feels “stale” throughout. Hell, even during the half hour or so that I played Rochard, new and interesting puzzles and challenges were consistently thrown at me.

However, the best thing about Rochard is by far Jon St. John’s voice work. He takes on a deep southern twang as the burly space miner John Rochard and he delivers dialogue and deep fried one liners as only JSJ can.

Better yet, Jon was on hand as I checked out Rochard and recorded a short video telling us that we’re gonna love it:

Rochard will be available this spring exclusively on the Playstation Network. No price has yet been set. I know I’m man enough to take on Rochard, because I’ve got Balls of Steel:

Alan Wake DLC “The Writer” Will Be Last

Dylan Duarte — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:34:15 +0000

Alan Wake was released in May of this year, followed by its first DLC, The Signal, at the tail end of July. Now developer Remedy is wrapping up their saga (for now) with The Writer, the final bit of downloadable content, to be released at a still unspecified date.

The only detail released so far is that The Writer will feature the Depeche Mode song “The Darkest Star,” which will tie into the game fiction.

1UP

Alan Wake “The Signal” DLC Available Today

Dylan Duarte — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:25:56 +0000

The first of two downloadable Alan Wake installments, “The Signal”, is available on Xbox Live today. It’s free for those who bought Alan Wake brand new. For those that didn’t, it’s 560 MS points, or seven bucks in real money.

Straight from the press release:

In this latest chapter to the critically acclaimed psychological action thriller exclusive to Xbox 360, our favourite writer is in greater peril than ever before as the boundaries between reality and nightmare become disturbingly distorted. Threatening to overwhelm Alan’s mind, the nightmarish mysteries feel chillingly familiar. Keep your flashlight nearby as you get ready to follow “The Signal.”

That isn’t very informative, but that also means you’ll be going into it completely spoiler-free, which makes everything better. The DLC currently has a 77 on Metacritic (out of only five reviews) and from what I’ve read should take a little more than an hour to complete.

Be sure to check out the Ripten Review of Alan Wake and let us know what you think of the game and The Signal in the comments below.

Alan Wake Goes Gold, Check Your Flashlight For Batteries

Chad Lakkis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:42:42 +0000

Remedy’s long awaited story driven action game, Alan Wake, has just gone gold. The suspenseful title revolves around a town consumed by an evil force and your battle to remain in one piece. The dark versus light combat system paired with what appears to be an endless array things that can attack you at any given moment means you may want to empty your bladder thoroughly before sitting down to enjoy this one. New “Building the Thriller” video available below. Make sure to check it out.

Alan Wake Dev: “Sorry, We’ve Been On Holiday”

Kev Lochun — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:28:13 +0000

We haven’t seen or heard much of anything about Alan Wake over the last two years, beyond a few new screens, and it definitely won’t be at TGS this year. Still, developer Remedy took some time to relax, because of all the hard work that is probably going on, but we’ve yet to see.

This popped up in the official Alan Wake forums, where Remedy’s Markus Mäki stamped all over the rumours of a showing at TGS 2008.

“Sorry for the confusion and possible disappointment, but this was not an announcement 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’m not sure what I’m more concerned about, the fact that it doesn’t appear to be anywhere near the point where it can be shown in public, or a developer suggests there should be only “possible” disappointment in their own game.

Source: Remedy’s Alan Wake forums

Alan Wake at 2008 Tokyo Games Show

Dylan Duarte — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:56:44 +0000

Alan Wake, the upcoming action-thriller from Remedy Entertainment (developers behind Max Payne), was mysteriously missing at this year’s E3 convention. Now, however, it looks like the game will show up at this year’s Tokyo Games Show.

According to MSN games, Microsoft is holding a contest in which the winner will have their likeness appear in the game. They’ll be flown to Finland to Remedy HQ, where they’ll get their digital make-over. Then they’ll be flown to Tokyo to TGS 08 to be “one the scene and on the screen.”

After doing a little digging, I found out via the TGS Wikipedia article that Alan Wake has indeed been confirmed to show.

Alan Wake will be released for PC and Xbox 360 on an unannounced date and the Tokyo Game Show will run October 9th to 12th.