The company helped release Alan Wake Remastered last year, which brought the game – along with its two excellent DLC packs, The Signal and The Writer – outside of the Xbox ecosystem and onto PlayStation systems for the very first time. Speaking of partners, Remedy is working with Epic Games Publishing to bring Alan Wake 2 to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X in 2023. Not only the concept itself, but the timing and the right partners as well." A game project like this is a very complex undertaking – it's our biggest project yet – and a lot of different things need to come together. "If anything, through these years, the dream of Alan Wake 2 has grown more ambitious and more unique. "You keep the dream alive when you keep actively dreaming it, and make a constant effort to keep it fresh and exciting," says Lake. What this means for Alan Wake – its off-kilter atmosphere and snappy combat, leveraging the forces of light against darkness with a backpack full of lithium batteries – remains to be seen, although game director Kyle Rowley is only too happy to tease the tonal shift. 'Tortured' being the operative word here, with Remedy signaling that Alan Wake 2 will be a true survival horror experience – rather than an action game with Twin Peaks and Stephen King-inspired horror elements, as was the original. Remedy will unleash the tortured author back into Bright Falls in 2023. Jesse Faden, meet Alan Wake – the once-famous writer who is now desperate to be freed of a nightmare of his own design, no matter the cost. In the expansion, the fallout from the 2010 Bright Falls incident collided with the Federal Bureau of Control, with Wake's penchant for rewriting reality seeping out of the Oceanview Motel and into the contorting hallways of The Oldest House. A release date for the long-awaited sequel has not been announced.Control arrived in 2019 and introduced a wider populace of the game-playing public to Remedy's penchant for engineering high-strangeness after almost two decades of Xbox exclusivity, and firmly established the concept of the 'Remedy Connected Universe' through the release of Control: AWE. Alan Wake 2 will be a game that we will all be proud of and most importantly I am sure it will be a game that players will love to play."Īlan Wake 2 is due to launch this year for Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC. This will be our first new game launch since Control in 2019. " While work still remains, I am impressed with the quality of the work and the development velocity of the team," Virtala said. Condor is making "steady progress" in the proof of concept stage, and the team has "proven key designs for gameplay and have found new ways to use existing assets and locations from the world of the original Control." Vanguard remains in the proof-of-concept stage, with focus being placed on core gameplay, the game's core loop, and meta game designs.ĭespite all of this, Remedy's main focus is with Alan Wake 2. Virtala also provided brief updates on Codename Condor, a co-op multiplayer game set in the world of Control, and Codename Vanguard, Remedy's free-to-play co-op game. In addition, we have been developing the visual target of the game"Īs for the Max Payne 1&2 remakes, the "development team has worked efficiently in proving the key elements of what Max Payne is all about and in bringing the game in high quality to today’s consoles and PCs." "During the first quarter, the development team focused on world building and gameplay mechanics. "Control 2, which moved into the proof-of-concept stage in January, has progressed well," Virtala said. These freed-up developers will contribute to our other game projects that are being driven towards the next stages of development."Īccording to Virtala, both Control 2 and the Max Payne 1&2 remakes have progressed to the proof-of-concept stage. The project is fully staffed, but we will be able to start scaling down the team size gradually as we progress towards the launch. "We have started the last major phase of full production to get the game ready for launch later this year. "Alan Wake 2 is on its way to becoming a great game and has everyone excited at Remedy," Virtala said.
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