We recently spoke Tiia Öhman about working as a photographer on the Alan Wake 2 set. Her stunning work can be seen in-game, in marketing, and on merchandise.
For our first Community Spotlight of 2024, we spoke to the brilliant Edvard Spells, a cosplayer who smoothly transforms from tormented writer to evil double.
In March, Remedy released their Alan Wake 2 update (1.0.16.1) for PCs, which lowers the minimum GPU requirements, optimising rendering for GPUs that don't support mesh shaders.
Alan Wake 2 sold one million units by the end of December 2023 and 1.3 million units as of February 2024, making it Remedy’s fastest-selling game so far.
To celebrate the game's 10th anniversary, we sat down with Matthew Porretta, the incredible voice actor behind Alan Wake, to talk about his experiences and memories.
The game industry is a tricky place to break into and, these days, almost as tricky to stay in. While there's general advice for aspiring developers, each individual story feels unique. This week, Vandal's Sara Borondo sat down with Roberto Padron (Level Designer at Remedy Entertainment) to talk about his gaming journey.
The article takes an in-depth look at his career so far. From working at Pyro Mobile Games as a QA Tester Intern in 2015, he has since worked with DNA Softworks, Blackmouth Games Ubisoft, and Supermassive Games before moving to Finland seven months ago to work at Remedy.
In the latest chapter in his story, he looks back on the interviews and tests that secured him at place at the company, and what life has been like for him in Finland.
While the original interview takes place in Spanish, if you click HERE, you can read it with the help of Google Translate.
While perhaps best known as the voice of Geralt of Reivia from The Witcher, Doug Cockle was also the incredible actor behind Alan Wake 2's FBI Agent Robert Nightingale. A surprise player character at the start of the game, Cockle's haunting performance is our reintroduction to the Taken after thirteen years.
In their eighty-minute interview, they explore a long range of topics, including the actor's career, the future of AI, The Witcher series (of course!), his latest roleplaying adventure with Natural Six, and getting bloodied up in preparation to take on Nightingale.
When you're through with that episode, you may be interested to learn that Behind the Voice is no stranger to the Alan Wake series, having previously interviewed Ilkka Villi (Alan Wake), David Harewood (Warlin Door), and Sam Lake (Alex Casey).
Created at the start of 2023, Behind the Voice is a podcast hosted by Abhi Jha, which explores the lives of actors behind our favourite characters. Over the past fifteen months, they have drawn 6,370 YouTube subscribers and recently passed 250 Spotify subscribers. You can follow Abhi's adventure on Twitter and YouTube!
The Remedy livestreams are back! Yesterday, Thomas Puha (Communications Director) and Kyle Rowley (Game Director) launched the first of five scheduled broadcasts, set to take place over the next month, with a second set teased for after the summer break.
Yesterday's "Kickoff" livestream, hosted on the studio's Twitch and YouTube channels, explored the behind-the-scenes journey of Alan Wake 2 with never-before-seen milestone footage.
Opening the broadcast, they discuss the BAFTA Games Awards, with Kyle having just returned from London, as well as what's currently in the works the DLC packs (although only teasers so far!), and the delicate decision process of showing an in-progress game.
The main discussion, though, was all about Alan Wake 2's development, from pre-production (when the team is focused on concepts and general goals) to development (with set achievements and dates). At Remedy, those milestones were celebrated and communicated both internally and to Epic Games through videos. The approach also allowed bigger developers' teams to gain a general sense of the overall progress of other departments. Accompanied by Kyle's commentary, we see work-in-progress videos from April 2021 and February 2022 (milestone #12).
As for future broadcasts, Vida will be returning as host for the next livestreams, which will delve deeper into specific areas of Alan Wake 2. On April 18th, they will be diving into the audio and music behind the game. For May 2nd, cinematics and live-action are in the spotlight. For some mid-May action, they return to the Pacific Northwest in a location feature on May 16th. Finally, as May draws to an end, there is a broadcast dedicated to The Dark Place on May 30th. All broadcasts will be going live at 4pm EEST / 2pm BST / 1pm GMT. Check them out on Twitch and YouTube!
Today, Remedy announced the next series of livestreams, this time centring around Alan Wake 2.
The schedule, which kicks off tomorrow, will see the studio check back in on alternative Thursdays at 4pm EEST with a brand new topic and new developers.
Writing on Twitter, the team revealed, "Join us in taking a peek inside the Writer's Room in our Alan Wake 2 developer streams! Every stream will feature dev team guests talking about how we brought AW2 to life. The 1st streams are this Tue and Thu at 4PM EET/2PM GMT. Catch us live on Twitch and YouTube!
The attached photo (see below) also teased the topics to come. On April 18th, they will be diving into the audio and music behind Alan Wake 2. For May 2nd, cinematics and live-action are in the spotlight. For some mid-May action, they return to the Pacific Northwest in a location feature on May 16th. Finally, as May draws to an end, there is a broadcast dedicated to The Dark Place on May 30th
Update 16/04/2024: Timezones can be a little bit on the confusing side particularly when we just crossed over into summertime like Europe did lately. If today's livestream mark the regular time for the upcoming broadcasts, the studio will go live at 4pm EEST / 2pm BST / 1pm GMT.
