Instead, he’s getting a week of special content on Remedy’s Twitch channel, but that’s not what I ask mom for. I mean what he asked mom for. And what about cake?
Alan Wake launched on Xbox 360 on 14 May 2010, introducing players to Stephen King’s video game alt and the Pacific West town of Bright Falls, home of The Old Gods of Asgard and Cauldron (not-a-)Lake. With its unconventional TV show sequencing and some of most evocative lighting and audio tech of its generation, the game established Remedy as one of the industry’s narrative prodigies – but was also a commercial flop at the time. Its subsequent launch on PC in 2012 boosted sales somewhat, but no sequel was ever confirmed. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare doesn’t count.
Since then, however, references to Alan Wake have slipped it into Remedy’s Quantum Break and Control, building up a sort of meta-narrative connecting everything to… what? Who knows, and Remedy isn’t telling. In the meantime, though, the studio has queued up some livestreams over the next week, with the first one out at 17:00 today local time.
We’re celebrating #10yearsofAlanWake with a week of streams! Join us for Bright Falls Week starting this Thursday.
On Thursday we’ll chat to @SamLakeRMD and the actors of Alan Wake: Matthew Porretta and Ilkka Villi!
📺Tune in from May 14th, 11am EDT: https://t.co/MPXN9jC948 pic.twitter.com/X6TDH0rYRI
— Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames) May 11, 2020
But it’s not a sequel.
Probably.