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[K'dash]

As for other existing Microsoft Game Studios franchises, Kim told GameSpot that film director Peter Jackson's still-untitled Halo project is "definitely proceeding," Alan Wake is "coming along nicely," and development of the Forza series continues. He also emphasized the fact that, although Bizarre Creations was bought by Activision last year, Microsoft owns the Project Gotham Racing IP, and has no plans to let it lie fallow indefinitely. However, he wouldn't say when a fifth PGR game might be released.

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[godspeed4476]

As for other existing Microsoft Game Studios franchises, Kim told GameSpot that film director Peter Jackson's still-untitled Halo project is "definitely proceeding," Alan Wake is "coming along nicely," and development of the Forza series continues. He also emphasized the fact that, although Bizarre Creations was bought by Activision last year, Microsoft owns the Project Gotham Racing IP, and has no plans to let it lie fallow indefinitely. However, he wouldn't say when a fifth PGR game might be released.

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PGR series is too arcadish......forza rocks.....lets hope tht Alan wake does not suffers the same fate like AiT5D

[ThePaink1ller]

^ Remedy wont disappoint.

[nash]

Alan Wake is such a fkin tease. Damn yous Remedy

[ThePaink1ller]

Remedy respond to TGS 2008 showing rumours.


The recent news on Alan Wake making the rounds was the old Microsoft Vista promotion competition which was held early 2007. In this promotion the winner of the competition would have their face digitized and shown in the game.

The winner who goes by the nickname “duffty” on the Alan Wake forums posted about his experience over a year ago on the 2nd of July 2007:

“I want to thank remedy for showing myself and my mate round their offices a couple of weeks back. They are exactly what you expect.. friendly,hard working, fun, finnish, and bloody clever paople. Thanks again mika and the team who gave us their valuable time.
ps. use my ugly face as you wish. mark”

Recently this promotion resurfaced and was posted on some major gaming news sites and blogs and caused quite a stir due to a comment in the promotion which many people confused as confirmation that Alan Wake will be shown at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. The comment was “Let the games begin with a trip to Finland to be digitally mastered into Alan Wake’s world, then jet off to Tokyo to the 2008 Tokyo Games Show to be on the scene and on the screen!”

Markus Maki, Director of Development at Remedy Games, recently posted squashing this rumour stating:

“The Microsoft Vista promotion referring to TGS took place in 2007, and is old news - we’ve had the winner over for taking the pictures already.

Sorry for the confusion and possible disappointment, but this was not an annoucement 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 can safely say that Remedy is hard at work on Alan Wake and when they are ready to show information you’ll see it here. The game is not cancelled or abandonware.

For all currently known information you can check our extensive collection of quotes in our Alan Wake FAQ which is updated whenever new information is confirmed by Remedy.

[jackhammer06]

^^So no Alan Wake at TGS 08 also???

[MarketTantrik]

Probably not

Scratch that. Most likely not :cry5:

[Madmage]

Alan wake !!! i have never waited for a game so badly man, mebbe except for max payne 2

[nash]

Vaporware it is then?

[Bulovski]

Following on the footsteps of Duke Nukem Forever.

[SnakeIsBack]

damn! are they even gonna show this ? its been 2 frikkin years !

I just hope at least @ Leipzig they show something!

[Gautam]

Max Payne was plagued with a lot of delays as well.. but turned out awesome..Have faith in Remedy..

[MarketTantrik]

Max Payne was plagued with a lot of delays as well.. but turned out awesome..Have faith in Remedy..

Thats the only reason why we still believe

[sundeep]

Alan Wake Development Hasn't Gone Smoothly (But Is Still Going!)

Alan Wake! We miss you! You showed your face, got us all excited, then buggered off and haven't been seen for months. That kind of business normally leads to speculation that a game's been canned. Speculation Remedy want to dispel immediately, with a post on the game's official boards saying:

...we're still here and working hard on getting Alan Wake for you to enjoy. Sure, we've been in development for a long time and if everything had gone perfectly smoothly there probably would be a game out for you guys to play already. But designing a completely new game can be hard, and sometimes you need to take a detour to find the best route forward.

We understand. If this post had gone perfectly smoothly I'd be ending this with a quip about prolonged development schedules, instead of just leaving you hanging awkwardly.

Source

[DevilsOwn]

Alan Wake Development Hasn't Gone Smoothly (But Is Still Going!)

Alan Wake! We miss you! You showed your face, got us all excited, then buggered off and haven't been seen for months. That kind of business normally leads to speculation that a game's been canned. Speculation Remedy want to dispel immediately, with a post on the game's official boards saying:

...we're still here and working hard on getting Alan Wake for you to enjoy. Sure, we've been in development for a long time and if everything had gone perfectly smoothly there probably would be a game out for you guys to play already. But designing a completely new game can be hard, and sometimes you need to take a detour to find the best route forward.

We understand. If this post had gone perfectly smoothly I'd be ending this with a quip about prolonged development schedules, instead of just leaving you hanging awkwardly.

Source

.. hanging in mid air, for sure.. this is one game which needs to tell us more about it and soon..

[ThePaink1ller]

Its still going to be awesome. Believe in Remedy.

[MarketTantrik]

:cry5:

Those are tears of joy.


Alan is ALAAAAIIIIVEEEE !!!!

[ThePaink1ller]

Rise and Shine Mr.Freeman Wake, Rise and SHINE!

[ThePaink1ller]

New Alan Wake Trailer Soon

Megaton, washes of here ...

We can truly say with pride (and quite in flames!), That two years of silence, after Remedy intends to present the Alan Wake-game trailer for the new format.

Trailer shown in the Max Payne movie-premiere-movie weekend in connection with Finnkino cinemas. The film will be premiered 17 October, but it held ennakonäytös already 15.lokakuuta, when it is already possible to see a new Alan Wake-trailer.

Listen to issue more pelaajacast Player's broadcast, where to from here. You can also search Pelaajacastin Apple's iTunes service. Use the search term player.

Trailer includes a new image of the game for a long time in production when the Xbox 360 game, which acts as a publicist for Microsoft Game Studios. None other than the cell phone cameras kehiin theater and trailer division ...

More information on the game yet this week ...

Edited by Ψ BλrnλcleBrλinBrλnt Ψ, 01 October 2008 - 02:11 AM.

[keyofx]

LOL @ google


/washes megaton

[MarketTantrik]

Yuchhh !! Reading that translated crap can fry your noodle.

[DAT IDIOT!]

Alan Wake Up

[KrackChap]

finally.

[ThePaink1ller]

Alan Wake reveal story is “100% true,” expect more on Friday

A Finnish source has told VG247 this morning that a Pelaaja story claiming a new Alan Wake trailer is to be shown at the Finnish premiere of the Max Payne movie is “100 percent true”.

We’ve also been told that Pelaaja is to publish more on the game this Friday.

[lastAvenger]

^ wow
its been a while since we have heard anything about Alan Wake. Looking forward for the damn thing

[L33TWiZaRd]

Friday couldn't get here any sooner. Been kinda desperate find out more about this game... Saw the article on X3F and am very excited

[shaiTaaNi billi]

OT- jishnu

[ThePaink1ller]

Alan Wake: has it been found?

It seems after a year or two of nothing, Alan Wake is about to step out of the gaming wilderness. We find out what's what...

It was only recently that we questioned what had happened to one of the most promising looking games of recent times, Alan Wake. Had it become another Duke Nukem Forever, disappearing into a cauldron from which the occasional screenshot would emerge, and not a lot more? Or was it just that developer Remedy was keeping to its promise to keep schtum unless it actually had something to say? Whichever, what was certain was that nothing had been heard from the game – billed as a psychological thriller – for a couple of years, in spite of occasional rumours that new footage was to be shown.

And yet we may have, finally, had some kind of breakthrough. Remedy’s previous games, the Max Payne titles, have just about completed their journey to the big screen. The Max Payne movie (from which we have some concept art here) is set to be released from the middle of October (the UK gets it a month later), and rumours emerged from Pelaaja – a Scandinavian gaming site – that a trailer for the game would be attached to the cinema release of the film in Finland. The translation of the rumour read along the lines of “It's our great pleasure to announce that, after two years of silence, Alan Wake is going to be showcased by Remedy in the form of a new trailer”. ‘Super Moderator’ Morry than chipped in with “The only event we can confirm is the trailer at this point, consider everything else a rumour”.

As with most Alan Wake rumours, this was generally acknowledged yet dismissed. But that didn’t stop there being levels of interest in the story, and this has since been followed up by the website Videogaming 247. Quoting a Finnish source, the site reports that the rumour of an Alan Wake trailer is “100 percent true”, going on to suggest that further news on the game is set to be published in Pelaaja by the end of the week.

Furthermore, over at the Alan Wake forums, the Forum’s Tech Director has posted that “I know I'm not a Remedy Staff member but I can confirm this story. Plus Pelaaja (more specifically Thomas Puha) have good relations with Remedy and are quite trustworthy.”

It could be, after long, empty months of nothingness, that Alan Wake is shortly to make his first steps in some time towards the world. Because you’d have to logically suspect that if a trailer was being shown at in front of a major blockbuster – even if it is one based on a videogame, and thus playing to slightly more of a niche audience than usual – that the game is nearing some kind of finished state. After all, what’s the point of promoting something in this way to a broad market if nobody is going to be able to buy it for a year or two yet?

Nonetheless, the mere appearance of something new from the game does go some way to dampening speculation that it had run into trouble, or disappeared off the radar altogether. For now, though, we can’t help but side with the commenter at Videogaming 247, who succinctly notes “About bloody time. It’d better not be sh*t!”.

Quite.

[Madmage]

+1

“About bloody time. It’d better not be sh*t!”.

[ThePaink1ller]

Remedy explains why Alan Wake is taking so long and confirms new trailer for this month

The site of Finnish mag Pelaaja is about to publish a 50-minute podcast which includes an in-depth chat with Remedy lead writer Sami Järvi on the current state of Alan Wake, why it’s taking so long and a proper confirmation that a new trailer is to be shown in Finland on October 15.
From the podcast:

• The reason it’s taking so long is simply that it’s a small team and building an open world game is very tough. They just want to take their time with it, but it’s definitely making progress.
• The reason for a new trailer is simple. The team mostly came up with it on a whim due to the release Max Payne movie. Also, the company just wanted to show something new on the game.
• Remedy’s using some of its old Rockstar contacts for the title’s development. Navid Khonsari who handled most of the mocap and VO directing in Rockstar’s games prior to GTA4 is apparently working on voice directing.
• Remedy owns the Alan Wake IP, so the firm’s able to take its time with it, though Järvi admits in the interview it’s taking a long time to make. Remedy insists that it’s not that it won’t ever be happy with the game, but the team just wants to make it as good as it can be.

We’re assuming the interview’s in Finnish, but you will be wanted to keep that URL in mind…