… Xbox One games news today includes a blow for fans hoping a sequel to Alan Wake will be arriving as an exclusive on their console. Now that Remedy is shifting gears away from Quantum Break, the developers told Polygon, Alan Wake 2 is back on the table. Even when they’re trying to ape Hollywood, you get a different, interesting feel to foreign media. Enter your email below. Control's AWE DLC Points To Alan Wake 2 As Remedy's Next Game It might be combined with a future Control game, but the big takeaway from AWE is … It is once again completely in thrall to Twin Peaks – more in terms of tone than content this time around – as well as the film Inception (2010), again, Lost, the books Borne (Jeff VanderMeer, 2017), Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer, 2014) and Mark Z. Danielewski’s incomparable 2000 puzzler House Of Leaves. Does something within Alan’s story just not make any sense? It’s an anniversary worth taking notice of. ‘Control’ was my favourite game of last year. Remedy is working on two games with Epic Games, and reports say a big-budget AAA Alan Wake 2 … Control is a game that contains an entire sweet shop of Easter Eggs dedicated to Alan Wake. In 2015, it was revealed that the studio had created an Alan Wake 2 prototype to pitch the game to publishers, but the project didn’t move on and the sequel did not materialize. Alan Wake was really interesting but it was a collaboration with Microsoft. On the same day, the information was removed from her curriculum vitae. So once it was happy with the early work prototyping Alan Wake 2, Remedy began to take the video around to a number of publishers. And, y’know, the sleeve has got a big bloody lighthouse on the cover…, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (2012). The atmosphere was just so damned captivating! The title stood to be a console exclusive from the Finnish developer until the title’s delisting from all platforms. siteads.queue.push( {"site":"kotaku","pagetype":"article","ad_type":"article","sec":"in-real-life","amp":false,"ctype":"article","article":"a look at what alan wake 2 could have been","article-tags":["alan wake 2","microsoft","quantum break","remedy","sequels"],"native":["null"],"aggregate":["alan wake 2","microsoft","quantum break","remedy","sequels"],"pageID":["null"],"sub-sec":"","cat":"in-real-life","cat1":"","ad_location":"out-of-page-mobile","provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot_out-of-page-mobile_section-index-1"} ); if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { Eventually, it arrived once more at Microsoft. Yes, I wish to receive exclusive discounts, special offers and competitions from our partners. Someone on the Remedy art team definitely has some books on Brutalist architecture overdue at their local library, too. Genuinely scary; in the woods, in the dark, where every branch and every shrub looks like foe. Alan Wake is a critically acclaimed psychological thriller that came out back in 2010. Grubb adds that he has “no idea” what this means for a potential Control sequel. I could see it’s quality, but the horror aspects just weren’t for me personally. It’s time. I was never especially bothered we didn’t get to see another game with him at the helm. Remedy Entertainment Reported To Be Working On Alan Wake Sequel With Publishing Deal Under Epic Games For fans over on the Xbox 360 over a decade ago, players might recall one unique Remedy Entertainment release – Alan Wake. Fans of the original Alan Wake have long wondered why their hunger for creeptacular suspense-filled third-person action game goodness hasn’t been fed with a sequel. This story has been retimed with the increasing chatter around Alan Wake 2 once more. Well, I don’t think any of the Alan Wake fans out there would shrug it off, that’s for sure. Which is perhaps, logical; Alan Wake concerns a huge, unexplained paranormal incident). Control is such a good game – and one that really does suggest that Remedy are a studio in rare form right now – that the idea of taking the core wonder of Alan’s first outing, but refracting and correcting its mistakes and making something that accentuated the many things that made Alan’s outlet so enjoyable all those years ago? “Quite quickly our discussion about Alan Wake 2 turned into something else and that something else turned into Quantum Break, which was great and very exciting.”. Matthew Byrd is a staff writer for Den of Geek . Congrats, Remedy. One of Microsoft’s creepiest action-adventure properties may get a new lease in life if this rumor holds water, as Alan Wake 2 is reportedly in development by Remedy Entertainment and Epic Games — bringing back hopes of a sequel to the 2010 game originally released for the Xbox 360 and subsequently getting a PC release in 2012. The gist of Polygon’s article is that while some of the stuff from Alan Wake 2 was broken off and absorbed into two other projects, there still could be an Alan Wake sequel as well. (In truth, all of Remedy’s games are intertwined with other curios from their other games – the Max Payne series (2001–2012), Quantum Break (2016) – but nothing one the scale of their most recent game. Whether these details were always intended to be found in the later release – or, as I suspect, were retconned cleverly in later when the team could see their intellectual universe expanding – the two games make sense being now conjoined. After immersing myself in the shared world of Control for months now, I can’t say I feel the same anymore. Really looking forward to “Quantum Break”. But May 14, 10 years since the release of 2010’s Alan Wake. Credit: Remedy Entertainment. Which is a very Alan Wake thing to happen. Still, the makings of greatness are there, and with Alan Wake now (hopefully) returning from the grasp of the Dark Presence via help from Control's Jesse, a sequel's precedence now stands at an all-time high. We … Alan Wake might be a decade old, but gamers still wait (somewhat) patiently for the next installment. Alan Wake 2 Might Not Be The April Fool’s Day Joke We Thought It Was, Control’s Next-Gen Edition Finally Does Justice To Remedy’s Shooter On Consoles. Not Pac-Man’s birthday, the iconic, eternally hungry yellow blob turning 40-years-old on May 22. This week, they got more of a proper answer. Alan Wake – roused from its slumber (pic: Remedy) Not only is there going to be an Alan Wake 2 but there’s apparently been a bidding war for the publishing rights that was won by Epic Games. It weaponised the use of light in a way I’d never known in games before it. Why even show this now? Alan Wake never got the sequel many expected he and it would have. The stories say that Remedy jumped right on it upon closing their book on the first game, got distracted, made a strange zombie wave shooter thing called Alan Wake’s American Nightmare for Xbox Live Arcade in 2012, then moved onto Quantum Break. “They have been really supportive about Alan Wake and [now head of Xbox] Phil Spencer has been awesomely supportive when it comes to Remedy and Alan Wake along the way,” Lake said. No Dean Koontz. According to GamesBeat’s Jeff Grubb, the Alan Wake sequel will … Alan’s dipshit-agent-cum-best-friend Barry steals the scene of everything he appears in. On 9 May 2011, a sequel game was hinted at when "Alan Wake 2" was shown on Althea Suarez Gata's curriculum vitae. There’s the standard third-person combat, like burning bad guys with lights: if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { Man oh man, how I want an Alan Wake sequel. Fans of the original Alan Wake have long wondered why their hunger for creeptacular suspense-filled third-person action game goodness hasn’t been fed with a sequel… Our hero is much more Dan Brown – no, more Richard Madeley fronting a tense segment of the Richard And Judy Book Club – than he is ‘The King Of Horror’. Control explores the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), a secret US government agency tasked with containing and studying phenomena that violate the laws of reality. Square Enix denies reports of acquisition from multiple potential buyers, ‘Genshin Impact’ is coming to PlayStation 5 in late April, The overpowered Sykov pistol is turning heads in ‘Call of Duty Warzone’, ‘Resident Evil’ Showcase announces ‘Resident Evil 4 VR’ and more, Sony announces new PSVR adventure game ‘Wanderer’, ‘Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla’ Wrath of the Druids DLC has been delayed. Aka Remedy Studios’ hyper detailed love letter to director David Lynch’s hugely influential, episodic fever dream Twin Peaks (with barely subtle nods to the Finnish studios’ love of The Twilight Zone, Lost, The Shining and H.P. The story is also ridiculous, encompassing some of the worst traits the fantasy genre has to offer. What Media Property Would You Like To See Adapted Into A Game. You and 343 are literally the only reasons I own an XBox One. To date, Control has seen one bona fide DLC release, March’s ‘The Foundation’, but it’s strongly rumoured that there’s another, entitled ‘AWE’ to follow. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. Now you can get the top stories from Kotaku delivered to your inbox. As for the other work that went into Alan Wake 2? How does it look? It's been revealed that Remedy is rumoured to be working on a sequel to horror title Alan Wake, with Epic Games named as the publisher.. I love Remedy’s style, partly for the same reason that I love non-US films. }. Remedy Entertainment boss Sam Lake is interested in making a sequel to the cult favourite Alan Wake and reveals he's been working on it "On and off" since the first game. The idea of Alan-as-sandbox is intriguing, yet strange given the central character’s occupation and the points the game wants to make about narrative. Read the whole of Polygon’s report on Alan Wake 2 here. Rumor: Alan Wake 2 is in Development at Remedy Entertainment. An Alan Wake Sequel Could Be on the Way, According to Remedy. siteads.queue.push( {"site":"kotaku","pagetype":"article","ad_type":"article","sec":"in-real-life","amp":false,"ctype":"article","article":"a look at what alan wake 2 could have been","article-tags":["alan wake 2","microsoft","quantum break","remedy","sequels"],"native":["null"],"aggregate":["alan wake 2","microsoft","quantum break","remedy","sequels"],"pageID":["null"],"sub-sec":"","cat":"in-real-life","cat1":"","ad_location":"mrec-content-mobile","targeting":{"pos":"2"},"provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot_mrec-content-mobile_section-index-1_pos-2"} ); And there was Alan Wake. Last week, a fairly significant video game anniversary passed most of us by. Remedy promised to continue the story of a war between light and darkness. Polygon published a meaty article about the undoing and potential redoing of Alan Wake 2, as well as an extended clip of gameplay from an internal prototype Remedy made for the game five years ago. I haven’t played Alan Wake in a long time now, probably not since I finished it, and yet recently I’ve found his story – best-selling (albeit terribly dressed) thriller novelist becomes embroiled in a mystery concerning his wife’s disappearance during a retreat in the small, Pacific Northwest town of Bright Falls, Washington – at the forefront of my mind. siteads.queue.push( {"site":"kotaku","pagetype":"article","ad_type":"article","sec":"in-real-life","amp":false,"ctype":"article","article":"a look at what alan wake 2 could have been","article-tags":["alan wake 2","microsoft","quantum break","remedy","sequels"],"native":["null"],"aggregate":["alan wake 2","microsoft","quantum break","remedy","sequels"],"pageID":["null"],"sub-sec":"","cat":"in-real-life","cat1":"","ad_location":"mrec-content-mobile","targeting":{"pos":"1"},"provider":"google-dfp","element_id":"ad-slot_mrec-content-mobile_section-index-1_pos-1"} ); Remedy is reportedly working on a sequel to cult hit Alan Wake. Publishing right for Alan Wake are now back with Remedy Entertainment. I think of Alan Wake the same way I think of Human Revolution. Despite the game’s notoriously troubled development – having decided on an open world approach for Alan’s debut adventure, Remedy famously binned three years of development, added a rod of linearity and finished the thing just shy of five – Alan Wake was one of the 360’s finest moments. The stories say that Remedy jumped right on it upon closing their book on the first game, got distracted, made a … Writer Mikko Rautalahti adds the story is "bigger than one game" and the sequel would be "weird and wonderful". A few hours after I finished this piece, I was perusing Xbox Game Pass to see what had been added to the service within the last few days. But it’s made me want to revisit another title I thought I was done with… behold the Remedyverse? By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use and Update, July 16: We probably won't see Alan Wake 2 any time soon, but Remedy wants to avoid leaving fans hanging for a sequel in the future.Remedy has made some of … But at the very least, we can tell that Alan could walk around in a sort of de facto spirit world and turn certain ghostly objects into tangible, IRL ones: if (typeof siteads.queue !== 'undefined') { Well, its ambition is the equal to its flaws. The story is absolutely ripe for a sequel, and it’s been a long, long time coming. ... Alan Wake. Control (2019). From what I remember (though I’ve got no reason not to revisit now), Alan Wake isn’t a perfect video game. There’s little to no information on what this could mean for a proper sequel. Doesn’t look that much better than part 1. There have been loose talks about an Alan Wake sequel for years, but it’s starting to sound like it could be years more before we ever get one. Nice guy, not charismatic enough to keep my reading in the long-term. Privacy Policy. Häkkinen stated they were not directly working on a sequel at that time, as Microsoft had focused them to complete the DLC. The first 2 Max Payne games are some of my favourites of all time, though. Remedy salvaged several of its ideas from the Alan Wake 2 prototypes by allowing them to be absorbed into Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, a spin-off game released back in 2012. So what the heck happened? On 10 May 2011, Oskari Häkkinen from Remedy told Joystiq, who had leaked an announcement rumor, that the official announcement of this installment was coming. Still one of my favourite games, despite its flaws. "For Alan Wake, from the get-go, we assumed there was going to be a sequel and we mapped things further out when it came to character, story, details and focus changes," Lake explained. Flawed masterpieces. “Alan Wake” wasn’t my kind of game. “We showed it to Microsoft and I guess at the time Microsoft was looking for something slightly different for their portfolio. At Alan Wake's release, Remedy had intended for a sequel; developer Oskari Häkkinen stated that Remedy saw the game as "Season 1" and its DLC was to "bridge the gap to what we're working towards." Alan Wake (2010). "For Alan Wake, from the get-go, we assumed there was going to be a sequel and we mapped things further out when it came to character, story, details and focus changes. Considering the distinct connections between Control and Alan Wake, a sequel to one will invariably involve the other. Control in fact, is one of those releases where you’d swear blind that actual magic can be found within the code. 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