Latest Alan Wake News

The third and final part of YouGamers trilogy of interviews with Remedy Interactive is now up on their website. This part discusses the technology behind Alan Wake, and is certainly a very interesting read.

Another point which we haven't really confirmed is the fact that Alan Wake will run on single core processors, however it is highly recommended you have a dual or quad core processor, as your playing experience will be far better.

So for an in depth read about the technology Remedy are using, check out The Power Behind Wake

What you are now looking at is our redesign of alanwake.co.uk. We've gone for a more dark and grungy look, to better suit the theme of the game.

If the site is looking a little out of place with images and such not aligning themselves correctly, or strange colours are showing, please first hard refresh your browser (usually ctrl + F5), if that doesn't work then try clearing your cache. We hope to soon have our forums skinned in a similar style to keep the theme of the site consistent.

As well as a brand new layout, I've also made a few improvements to the RSS feed so it now shows the news post as well, instead of just the title as it functioned before. We think we've squashed all the bugs we've found, but if you do spot something a little strange, please let us know in the comments. Remember to tell us what browser and OS you're using too. The layout uses valid xHTML and CSS, and is tableless. As such it should be cross compatible with all browsers on the majority of operating systems.

Hope you all like the new look!

Well, turns out I never had time to do the website revamp I talked about last month, but not to worry, that can wait longer, for now we have some lovely new screens to look at. Technically they aren't actually new because they're all development shots from last year. There are a few we've never seen before, while others are in a higher resolution, and unwatermarked version of others we've posted about. Click the thumbs below for the full versions.

More screenshots in our gallery.

The second part of YouGamers series of interviews relating to Remedy Interactive and Alan Wake is now up on their website. This second part mainly focuses on their current project which of course is Alan Wake.


Head on over to YouGamers for And Now For Something New.

YouGamers have been lucky enough to grab a nice interview with Remedy Interactive. They were invited to Remedy's offices in Finland to sit down with Markus Mäki and Petri Järvilehto. The interview is being split up into a number of parts in the style of an article, and we'd imagine they will release a new part every month or so.

In the interview they talk about how things have changed after the success of the Max Payne games, and touch on a bit about Alan Wake. It's an interesting read, so head on over to YouGamers to read part 1 of a series of interviews with Remedy, Life After Success

This is just a short post to let you know that this month I'm making an effort to revamp the site. This is both in the way of coding the backend of the custom CMS, as well as hopefully a new layout. This current layout is borrowed from one of my other sites, and whilst keeping all my sites linked, they need better, more relevant layouts. Bear in mind I have 2, possibly 3 sites to redo, so I should add "hopefully" to the end of the title in case it doesn't get done, but it should do. Downloads will also be integrated again, a necessary upgrade brought about a lot of changes which would require a fair bit of work to get integrated, hence why they aren't at the moment. But once the CMS is done we'll be using our own system.

Additionally, once I've finished the new layout, I'll work on skinning our rather inactive forums. I'm hoping to entice a few more of you to post there - while I'm aware there isn't much to talk about at the moment, we started off pretty well but then interest died out for the game. Once there's a bit more info out I'm sure you'll be asking all sorts of questions, but we'll see how it goes. I don't really want to close them, but if they aren't used I might as well.

So that's all for now. It'll be pretty obvious when I have updated the site, so I'll say no more until such time.

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Yep, we're still alive. It's been a few months since any life was seen here at AlanWake.co.uk. I've been busy with other projects, and to be honest, there hasn't really been any actual news on the game, so it's safe to say we haven't really missed much. In the coming months I am hoping to completely revamp the place, not sure if the forums will stay since they're kind of dead what with everyone choosing to use the official ones, but we'll see how it goes with them.

GamesRadar have recently published a new preview though, there isn't any new information but they are nice enough to give us 2 new screenshots (plus 1 uncropped screenshot we saw from C&VG), unfortunately with GR's watermark on them, but never mind. Check out the new screens below.

Link: GamesRadar

ComputerAndVideoGames.com have a brand new preview up on their site, as with other previews, a lot of the stuff we already know, though I picked out this quote for you:


C&VG were good enough to include 4 new digital screenshots with their article, which makes a change from all the poor quality scans and photographs we've seen as of late.

Links: C&VG Preview | Screenshots Gallery

Another Australian magazine PCPowerplay has an article in it about Alan Wake today, they talk to Petri Järvilehto and Sam Lake about the game.

Thanks to BrightFalls for the news and transcription [currently unavailable]. We'll bring you the info once we have it available, meanwhile, if you live in Australia you can get hold of the magazine from all good newsagencies, it's a good read so well worth the small cost.

Australian publication Hyper Magazine have an article on Alan Wake. The editors give their impressions of the game they saw at X06 earlier this year.

Thanks to AlanWakes.com for the news and Marcus for the transcription, which you can read here.

Alan Wake scores another cover story in Europe, this time on French magazine PC Jeux. The 6-page article is all in French, but Corwin over at AlanWake.com has kindly translated the whole thing for us, as well as taking photographs of the magazine.

You can read Corwin's translation by clicking here.

Remedy’s Lasse Seppänen has been busy with a couple of video interviews recently, one of which was featured on the accompanying DVD to the PCAction magazine we reported on last week, and the other, is on Scandinavian gaming website GameReactor.

The interview from PCAction is in English, however since the mag is German there is a German voiceover, meaning you can't really hear what Lasse is saying. Luckily, Jarek on Alanwake.com has provided the video and a full translation, though the interviews are talking about exactly the same thing, so you can simply watch the one below at Gamereactor for all the info.

Lasse's interview with Gamereactor can be found on their website by clicking here. This one is all in English.

Alan Wake has made yet another magazine's cover story. This time on German publication PC Action. Currently we don't have a copy of the article, let us know if you can get it and translate it for us though!

UPDATE: Jarek over at AlanWake.com got hold of a copy of the magazine and did a quick translation of some of the main points, however there wasn't much in the way of new information, only a couple of recaps on what we already know:

• The article says that Remedy might be planning on creating a level editor for the fan community. (Mika from Remedy has said this isn't confirmed but is something they'd like to do)
• Alan's girlfriend 'Alice' may play an integral role in the story
• The game is episodical, rather like a TV series.

The latest issue of Computer Gaming World features Alan Wake as their main cover story, and has a massive article on the game. Thankfully, logic over at the Alan Wake Forums has typed the entire thing up.
The article clears up a few facts, and has a few extra notes with it. The article also features a nice Q & A with Petri and Sam from Remedy.

Link: Full Story (typed by logic)

Alan Wake is the cover story of Finnish gaming magazine Pelit. There is loads of new info in the article, which is written in Finnish of course. Luckily, Yki on the Alan Wake forums has kindly translated the whole thing into English for everyone to read.

As it's such a long article, please click here to read the translation by Yki as it's too big to post on the front page of the website. As I said it's a long read, but it's pretty interesting too. Let us know your thoughts when you've finished reading.

Two more previews have gone up today, in addition to some others earlier in the week which we didn't post about as none of them had any new information. All of them based on what they saw at X06.

Last week 1UP posted their preview, they comment on what they saw which seemed to be the same demo seen at IDF 06. It's also mentioned that you can play as multiple characters in the game.

Today saw more previews popping up, firstly at TeamXbox, they describe some cutscenes they got to see early on in the game. Unfortunately there's no new info though.

Later on EuroGamer posted their take on the 20 minute presentation shown at X06. It's very detailed and describes the game right from the opening scene, so it's quite an interesting read, I recommend you head over there and check it out.

On a closing note, IGN have picked their top 5 games shown at X06. Alan Wake made it to number 5! You can read all about that here.

Thanks to __Maximus__ for the EuroGamer link.

IGN and Gamespot have both put up new previews of the demo Remedy showed them of Alan Wake. Although there aren't many new details, both articles are an interesting read. The game sounds genuinely freaky at some points. One new detail confirmed is that the game world is 10 x 10 Kilometres (6.2 x 6.2 miles). Previous reports suggested a map larger than this, however both IGN and Gamespot are quoting this figure.

Link: IGN and Gamespot

Remedy have updated the official site with 3 additional screenshots. More eye candy for you below.


See more in our screenshots gallery.

Remedy have released 10 brand new incredibly high resolution screenshots of Alan Wake at X06. Some of these files are absolutely huge, so be patient when viewing them if you have a slow connection.

Check out more in our screenshots gallery.