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  • Alan Wake 2 cost a reported 70 million euros, which makes it one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland. Remedy Entertainment developed the 2023 survival horror game, and Epic Games Publishing released it. Its hero is Alan Wake, a best-selling novelist who has been trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years. His only route to freedom is to write a horror story, and that story draws in an FBI Special Agent named Saga Anderson. The game is the sequel to Alan Wake, which appeared in 2010. Why would a horror game stop to stage a full musical number? How does a flashlight become a weapon, and what does a pin board have to do with solving a mystery? And did such an enormous bet pay off?

  • Saga Anderson and Alan Wake each have their own single-player story, and players can tackle them in whichever order they like. Only the opening and ending sequences are fixed in place. The original game was an action-adventure with horror themes. The sequel is a survival horror game, though it is still played from a third-person view.

    Both characters fight with firearms and a flashlight. Focusing the flashlight makes enemies vulnerable to gunfire, but the act drains its battery. Batteries and ammunition are limited, so players must ration them carefully. When an enemy gets close, either character can perform a dodge.

    Saga has one tool that Alan lacks. It is the Mind Place, an enemy-free space that Remedy described as a "3D menu". The Mind Place is a visual picture of her thoughts. Inside it, players manage a pin board, connect clues to piece together the central mystery, and profile characters to uncover further clues.

    Sam Lake said that his approach to the sequel was bolstered by the success of the film Everything Everywhere All At Once. A mission called "Initiation 4: We Sing" shows how far that confidence stretched.

  • On a surreal set in the mission "Initiation 4: We Sing", Mr. Door and others perform a musical called "Herald of Darkness". The song summarizes Alan's story up to that point. The music comes from Poets of the Fall, who appear in the game as a fictional band named Old Gods of Asgard.

    Lake said two earlier moments inspired the sequence. One was a concert standoff from the original Alan Wake. The other was the Ashtray Maze level in Control. Both were set to music by Poets of the Fall. Lake also knew that Matthew Porretta, who voices Wake, and David Harewood, who plays Mr. Door, could sing. Poets of the Fall helped with the choreography.

    Not everyone on the team was convinced. Throughout development, some developers questioned whether the sequence belonged at all. It was strange in a horror game, and it was hard to pull off. Lake insisted that it stay.

    The cast around that scene is a mix of voice and live-action performers. Ilkka Villi provides Alan's appearance, and Porretta provides his voice. Melanie Liburd is both the live-action performer and the voice of Saga Anderson. Harewood plays Mr. Door in both ways. James McCaffrey voices Alex Casey, while Lake himself plays the character's live-action appearance.

    The game also borrows faces from Control. Jesse Faden appears, voiced by Courtney Hope. Porretta voices Dr. Darling, and Martti Suosalo plays the mysterious janitor Ahti.

    At The Game Awards 2023, Poets of the Fall played the song live. Villi, Porretta, Harewood, and Lake joined them on stage, reprising their roles.

  • Before Alan Wake 2, Remedy had built a reputation for pushing graphics technology with Control and Max Payne 2. The sequel was developed with ninth-generation consoles in mind. It was the first game released with native support for mesh shaders.

    Older rendering techniques rely on vertex and geometry shading, which can bottleneck when a scene contains a huge number of fixed triangles. Mesh shaders instead handle large groups of triangles flexibly. They can be split into smaller pieces called meshlets, which can be reused and rendered in parallel. That approach means fewer calls for data from memory, and a shorter graphics pipeline.

    The technique needs recent hardware. On PC, it requires an Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 or 16 series card, or an AMD Radeon RX 6000 series card, or anything newer. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S support it too. On Nvidia's GeForce GTX 10 series or AMD's Radeon RX 5000 series and older, the game ran poorly and showed visual errors. A patch in early 2024 improved performance on GTX 10-series cards.

    Ray tracing simulates how light behaves in the real world. Alan Wake 2 uses it extensively, with global illumination that makes light bounce off surfaces and diffuse according to the materials it meets. This matters most in dark scenes where a flashlight is the only light source. The game goes further with path tracing, where diffused light also bounces across duller surfaces. Path tracing is too demanding for the consoles.

    The heavy use of ray tracing made the game a showcase for Nvidia. It supports DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction, which uses machine learning to fill in the gaps rather than calculating multiple rays per pixel on GeForce RTX cards. Nvidia soon turned that showcase into a sales offer.

  • Petri Alanko began recording the score for Alan Wake 2 in 2011. In the years since, he said, it became a "very different entity". The biggest change was the arrival of a second protagonist, Saga Anderson. During that stretch he also composed the score for Control, which Remedy released in 2019.

    Some of his sounds came from unusual experiments. To create them, Alanko dropped pianos off forklift trucks.

    The Finnish composer had also written the music for the first game. He described returning as "akin to reuniting with an old friend, discovering both familiar and new elements to play with". Epic Games and Laced Records released the finished score on the 14th of May 2024, the 14th anniversary of the first Alan Wake game's release.

    The score's long gestation mirrors the project as a whole. The game took 13 years to develop. In an interview, Lake explained why: "The sequel contains many characters and locations, as well as a continuation of the supernatural lore established and introduced in the original Alan Wake."

    The finished game reached players on a schedule that shifted at the last minute.

  • In May 2023, Remedy announced that Alan Wake 2 would be digital only. Many players had already moved to buying games digitally, the studio reasoned, and a digital release helped keep the price low. It also avoided requiring a separate download alongside a physical disc.

    The game was first planned for the 17th of October 2023 on PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. Remedy pushed it back ten days, to the 27th of October, to avoid competition from other major triple-A releases. The PC version is exclusive to the Epic Games Store for "a long time". Physical editions were later announced for October 2024, including a limited collectors edition produced with Limited Run Games.

    Of the reported budget, 50 million euros went to development and 20 million euros to marketing. Some of that marketing reached well beyond horror fans.

    In Fortnite, an Alan Wake outfit arrived as part of the Fortnitemares 2023 event. In the weeks before launch, Fortnite Creative also hosted a retelling of the first Alan Wake, so that newcomers could catch up on its events.

    Nvidia ran a promotion from the 10th of October to the 13th of November 2023. A free copy of Alan Wake 2 came with purchases of certain GeForce RTX 40 series cards: the RTX 4070, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4080, and RTX 4090.

    In January 2024, Alan Wake joined the roster of Dead by Daylight. His release came with extra cosmetics, including skins that turn the character into Saga Anderson, Rose Marigold, or Mr. Scratch.

  • Night Springs, the first expansion, arrived on the 8th of June 2024 with three episodes. Each one shows echoes of familiar Remedy characters in "what if" scenarios set in Bright Falls. In "Number One Fan", players control the Waitress, who is based on Rose. "North Star" follows a protagonist based on Jesse Faden, the lead of Control. In "Time Breaker", the Actor is the real-life actor Shawn Ashmore, who appears as himself and as Sheriff Tim Breaker, a role he also voices.

    The Lake House followed on the 22nd of October 2024. It is a crossover with Remedy's Control series, and players take the role of FBC agent Kiran Estevez. Its events take place near the beginning of the main plot. Even so, players can open it from the main menu at any time, or during the mission "Return 6: Scratch".

    In that same month, Remedy released a free anniversary update. It added accessibility options such as infinite ammo, one-shot kills, and gameplay assists. On PlayStation 5, it introduced DualSense motion control support and stronger haptic feedback. Players also gained expanded options for inverting camera axes.

  • On Metacritic, Alan Wake 2 received "generally favorable" reviews for its PC and PS5 versions. The Xbox Series X/S version earned "universal acclaim". OpenCritic found that 93% of critics recommended the game. Andrew Farrell of PCGamesN scored it 9 out of 10, calling it "a marvel" in his review. Time ranked it first on its list of the top 10 best video games of 2023.

    The awards lists were long. At The Game Awards 2023, it was nominated for Game of the Year, Best Game Direction, Best Narrative, Best Art Direction, Best Score and Music, and Best Audio Design. It was also nominated for Best Performance and Best Action / Adventure Game. The 2024 British Academy Games Awards considered it in categories including Game Design, Narrative, and Music, as well as three leading performer nominations. The credited writing team of Sam Lake, Clay Murphy, Tyler Burton Smith, and Sinikka Annala appears in the Nebula Awards category for Best Game Writing. The game also appears under the Hugo Awards for Best Game or Interactive Work.

    The expansions fared less well. Night Springs received "generally favorable" reviews, and 79% of critics recommended it on OpenCritic. The Lake House drew "mixed or average" reviews on Windows and "generally favorable" reviews on PlayStation 5, with 66% of critics recommending it.

    The sales figures tell a slower story. By the end of December 2023, the game had sold over 1 million units. By February 2024, it had passed 1.3 million, making it Remedy's fastest-selling game. In its first month, it sold more units than Control did in four months, and over three times as many digital units.

    Profit took longer. As of late April 2024, the game had not recouped its development and marketing costs, and Remedy's January-June 2024 financial report confirmed that it had yet to turn a profit. On the 1st of November 2024, the company said the game was close to recouping most of those costs. On the 19th of November, Remedy announced sales of over 1.8 million units. By the end of 2024, sales passed 2 million, and Alan Wake 2 started generating royalties for Remedy.

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What is Alan Wake 2?

Alan Wake 2 is a 2023 survival horror video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing. It is the sequel to Alan Wake from 2010 and follows novelist Alan Wake and FBI Special Agent Saga Anderson.

When was Alan Wake 2 released and on which platforms?

Alan Wake 2 was released on the 27th of October 2023 for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S. It was first planned for the 17th of October 2023, but Remedy delayed it by ten days to avoid other major releases.

How much did Alan Wake 2 cost to make?

Alan Wake 2 reportedly had a budget of 70 million euros, with 50 million euros for development and 20 million euros for marketing. That makes it one of the most expensive cultural products in the history of Finland.

How long did Alan Wake 2 take to develop?

Alan Wake 2 took 13 years to develop. Sam Lake said the sequel contains many characters and locations, along with a continuation of the supernatural lore from the original game.

How does gameplay work in Alan Wake 2?

Players control Alan Wake or Saga Anderson in two separate single-player stories that can be played in any order. They fight with firearms and a flashlight that can be focused to make enemies vulnerable, and Saga uses a Mind Place pin board to connect clues.

How many copies has Alan Wake 2 sold?

Alan Wake 2 had sold over 2 million units by the end of 2024, making it Remedy's fastest-selling game. It started generating royalties once development and marketing costs were recouped.

What are the Alan Wake 2 expansions Night Springs and The Lake House?

Night Springs was released on the 8th of June 2024 and contains three "what if" episodes set in Bright Falls. The Lake House was released on the 22nd of October 2024 as a crossover with Remedy's Control series, with players controlling FBC agent Kiran Estevez.

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  1. 1Alan Wake 2 launches on PS5 October 17Thomas Puha — 24 May 2023
  2. 2Alan Wake 2 Gameplay Impressions Summer Game Fest 2023Kurt Indovina et al. — 10 June 2023
  3. 3As Alan, players have access to the "Writer's Room", where they can see the outline of a novel he is writing. By adding and changing plot details on the outline, they are able to manipulate the space around Alan. Both the Mind Place and the Writer's Room do not pause the outside world. A returning element from Alan Wake is finding manuscript pages that foreshadow upcoming events in the story. Synopsis Plot FBI agent Saga Anderson, known for her intuitive skills, arrives in Bright Falls with partner Alex Casey to investigate ritualistic murders linked to the Cult of the Tree. Their latest victim is Robert Nightingale, a fellow agent who went missing in a mass incident that occurred in the town in 2010 and was largely covered up by the US government. During the autopsy, Nightingale's corpse reanimates and escapes. Guided by mysterious typewritten pages that seem to predict events, Saga hunts Nightingale through the Cauldron Lake woods and kills him, then finds missing novelist Alan Wake washed ashore, warning of his evil doppelgänger, Mr. Scratch. Back in town, Alan recounts his 13 years trapped in the Dark Place—a dimension tied to the lake and ruled by the Dark Presence, which manifests as Scratch. Alan has tried to escape by writing stories that alter reality, but his attempts always loop back to an apparition of his New York apartment with his wife Alice. Video diaries left by Alice in the apartment suggest she is also haunted by Scratch. Alan eventually writes a story called Return about Saga's investigation, but realizes it has been twisted by Scratch. He warns Saga that Scratch is seeking the Clicker, a supernatural artifact capable of freeing or destroying the Dark Presence. As Return unfolds, Saga discovers her past has been rewritten so that her daughter Logan drowned. Determined to end the story, she retrieves the Clicker but is intercepted by the Federal Bureau of Control (FBC), led by Agent Kiran Estevez, who apprehends Alan and the Cult leaders, Ilmo and Jaakko Koskela. Saga learns from Odin and Tor Anderson—her grand-uncle and grandfather—that her psychic abilities allow her to perceive changes in reality caused by Return. When she attempts to give Alan the Clicker, he kills Jaakko and attacks Saga, convincing her he is actually Scratch. Using FBC light tech, she drives him off. Ilmo, grieving his brother, reveals the Cult's purpose was to defend Bright Falls from the Taken, humans possessed by the Dark Presence. Saga joins forces with Casey, Estevez, Odin, and Tor to summon the real Alan from the Dark Place using the Clicker. In the Dark Place, Alan learns from his future self that his endless rewrites have created time loops. He discovers a suicide note from Alice and realizes the haunting was caused by his repeated trips to the apartment. Mistaking his past self for Scratch, an enraged Alan kills him, perpetuating the cycle. His despair allows the Dark Presence to possess him, and he subsequently disappears. The ritual succeeds in bringing Alan back, but at an earlier point in the story, with the Dark Presence inside of him waiting to take over. The possessed Alan attacks the group. Saga and Estevez banish the Dark Presence from Alan, but it transfers to Casey, steals the Clicker, and throws Saga into the Dark Place. Alan re-enters the Dark Place to write a new ending, while Saga learns to navigate the realm, retrieves the Clicker and a Bullet of Light, and reunites with Alan to complete the story. Saga uses the Clicker to purge Casey. Alan provokes the Dark Presence into possessing him again, and Saga shoots him with the Bullet of Light, seemingly destroying both Alan and the entity. As he dies, Alan realizes the story is trapped in a loop and will reset. Saga calls Logan to see if reality has been restored, but the screen cuts to black. In a final video diary, Alice reveals she tricked Alan into believing she had died, explaining that he must break the cycle through “destruction” or “ascension.” Alan revives, declaring, “It's not a loop, it's a spiral.” In the New Game Plus mode, The Final Draft, repeated playthroughs bring the spiral to its end. Alan finishes Return, severing the Dark Presence, which was born from his own darkness and tied to Alice. The Bullet of Light destroys it permanently. Logan answers Saga's call, and Alan revives, free from the loop, proclaiming himself "the master of many worlds.” Expansions Night Springs Within the Remedy Connected Universe, Night Springs was a horror anthology show akin to The Twilight Zone, which had a few episodes written by Alan himself. Previously used during American Nightmare in a failed attempt to escape the Dark Place, a new season hosted by Warlin Door, a mysterious figure in the Dark Place who accosts Alan during the start of his chapters, covers three short and mostly disconnected stories featuring familiar faces from both Alan Wake and Control - it's implied that these were earlier drafts of Alan's that he rejected in favor of what would become the final version of Control and Return, given the parallels between each story:Number One Fan: A pastiche of poorly-written self-insert power fantasies, the Number One Fan (Rose Marigold) fights through hordes of rabid critics in order to save her beloved writer (Alan Wake) from his evil twin (Mr. Scratch). Notably, the evil twin attempts to impersonate the writer at one point; this makes it into Return as Scratch hiding in Alan before he tries to take the Clicker from Saga. North Star: Effectively a cut-down retelling of Control, the Sibling (Jesse Faden) is led to a coffee-themed amusement park, secretly a cover for a paranormal government agency, by her Guiding Star (Polaris), to search for her long-lost brother (physically Alan Wake, voice by Dylan Faden/Sean Durrie), only to find the park taken over by an corruptive and alien force imbued within the park's coffee (the Hiss). Time Breaker: Actor Shawn Ashmore (who plays Tim Breaker in the main game) seemingly finds his own dead body in his dressing room while starring in a videogame developed by Poison Pill Entertainment (parodying Remedy), subsequently becoming embroiled in a multiversal conflict between the Ripple Effect Corporation, spearheaded by Agent Jesbet (Jesse) and Ashmore's many counterparts, and the Master of Many Worlds (Warlin Door & Alan Wake). Notably, a number of elements both in the base game and Time Breaker imply that Tim Breaker, Jesse Faden, and Warlin Door are alternate versions of characters in Quantum Break. The Lake House After Alan washes up to shore from the Clicker ritual, the FBC is alerted to an Altered World Event occurring; Kiran Estevez and her team travel to a research facility dedicated to studying Cauldron Lake, the eponymous Lake House, to gather information and additional manpower in order to coordinate a response, only to find it under a state of emergency and seemingly abandoned. Estevez quickly finds out that the Dark Presence has managed to take over the facility - along with its two married heads, Jules and Diana Marmont, whose Taken forms subsequently slaughter the rest of her team. As the agent ventures further into the facility, Estevez discovers that the Marmonts began to chafe within their marriage and the continued stresses of running the Lake House, and exploited the Oldest House's continued lockdown to conduct increasingly unethical and deranged experiments with no oversight in an effort to one-up each other; Jules attempted to exploit the Dark Presence's abilities by abusing and drugging Rudolf Lane, artist and former patient of Emil Hartman, while Diana believed that attempting to emulate Alan Wake's writing style via automated typewriters and later "conscripting" a ghostwriter under false pretenses would better harness the reality-shaping effects of Cauldron Lake. Eventually, Rudolf broke and committed ritualistic suicide, using his own blood to paint a final, horrific self-portrait, the Painting, which was infused with his hatred and despair; Jules then used the Painting to open a Threshold directly into the Dark Place; the raw emotions within the Painting resonated with the Dark Presence, resulting in the entire facility being Taken. Estevez also encounters Dylan Faden after briefly being transported to the Oldest House via the Oceanview Motel, where he warns her of an upcoming cataclysm in New York City. Estevez eventually makes her way into the lower levels where the Painting is held, only to witness Jules having his head caved in by his wife, their sheer hatred for each other briefly overpowering the Dark Presence, before Estevez finishes off Diana herself and seals the Painting's Threshold. She then witnesses a vision of Alan writing about their later confrontation at Saga and Casey's safehouse following the Cult of the Tree's attack, and sets it in motion by calling what she learnt in, as a "good tip, nothing more", to her backup. Development Pre-production Remedy Entertainment released Alan Wake in 2010. Learning from Max Payne, they wrote Alan Wake in a way that allows additional story to be told through sequels and further installments. The team began discussing sequel ideas after Alan Wake was shipped, which would continue to star Alan Wake as the protagonist, but also explore the stories of the supporting characters including Wake's friend Barry Wheeler and Sheriff Sarah Breaker. A prototype was created to show off the gameplay of Alan Wake 2 when the studio was showing the game to potential publishers. The game would have been a direct sequel to Alan Wake, featuring new enemies and new gameplay mechanics, such as being able to rewrite reality, which were showcased in the prototype. Ultimately, Remedy pitched the project to Alan Wake publisher Microsoft Studios. Microsoft, however, at the time was not interested in a sequel and instead, tasked Remedy to create a new game. This ultimately became Quantum Break, released in 2016. It included, alongside other easter eggs to Alan Wake, a short live-action film, titled Alan Wake: Return. It features two FBI agents, one named Alex Casey, investigating the reappearance of Wake, which had been created by Remedy as to help promote a sequel to publishers. The other FBI agent was Saga Anderson, who was portrayed by Malla Malmivaara. She was later recast with Melanie Liburd. Most of the ideas for Alan Wake 2 were implemented in American Nightmare, a downloadable follow-up to Alan Wake. Remedy CEO Tero Virtala stated that any further sequels to Alan Wake would require Microsoft Studios' approval as the publishing rights holder, though Remedy otherwise owns all other intellectual property rights to the series. When Quantum Break was announced, Sam Lake explained that a sequel to Alan Wake had been postponed, and that Alan Wake was not financially successful enough to receive the funding they needed to continue developing the sequel at the time. Director of communications Thomas Puha stated in April 2019 that Remedy had briefly returned to work on an Alan Wake property about two years prior, but the effort did not work out, and the company was booked for the next few years, between their own new game Control, supporting Smilegate on its game CrossfireX, and another new project. Puha said that the only limited factor for them to work on an Alan Wake sequel was "time, money, and resources". Despite that, Lake continued to be part of a team in Remedy to brainstorm ideas and work on different incarnations for Alan Wake 2. Internally, the project was code-named "Project Big Fish", which represented its importance and significance to Remedy. In the second downloadable content pack for Control, Remedy's next game following Quantum Break, Alan Wake was featured as a character. According to Remedy, Control established the "Remedy Connected Universe" which is shared by both Control and Alan Wake, and that the next game released by the studio will also be set on this universe. Remedy fully acquired the rights to Alan Wake from Microsoft in July 2019, including a one-time royalty payment of about for the game series' past sales, which helped pave the way for a sequel. Remedy had signed with Epic Games Publishing in 2021 for the release of two games. Remedy released Alan Wake Remastered in October 2021 as the first game of this partnership, while the second, larger game, Alan Wake 2, was announced at The Game Awards 2021. Remedy's communications director Thomas Puha said that Epic allowed Remedy to create the game they wanted to make with minimal publisher interference, while providing extensive feedback to help improve the game. Production With Epic as their publisher, Remedy began production on Alan Wake 2 in August 2019. According to Sam Lake, the game would be powered by Remedy's own Northlight Engine, which they used for Quantum Break and Control. Lake also stated that Alan Wake 2 would be a survival horror game, as opposed to Alan Wake, which Lake said was "an action game with horror elements", though he did not explain the difference between the two. Lake further added that players will not need to play the previous games in order to understand Alan Wake 2. The sequel continued to draw inspiration from the works of David Lynch. According to Lake, he sought influence specifically from the third season of Twin Peaks, whereas the first entry was influenced by earlier seasons. Also influential were more detective themes from works like SE7EN, The Silence of the Lambs, and True Detective, while literary influences included House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, as well as his memoir On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.Andy Robinson — 10 June 2023
  4. 4Alan Wake 2: How the Mind Palace and Writer's Room workSmangaliso Simelane — 27 October 2023
  5. 5Quantum Break is full of Alan Wake easter eggsNick Robinson — 1 March 2016
  6. 6Remedy still in talks about Alan Wake 2Martin Robinson — 7 March 2016
  7. 7Introducing the Alan Wake 2 you will never playBrian Crecente — 20 April 2015
  8. 8How Remedy is taking Control of its own destinyJames Batchelor — 16 July 2018
  9. 9NewsAlan Wake Creator Explains Why We Are Not Getting A SequelEvan Narcisse — 22 May 2013
  10. 10'We were working on Alan Wake 2 years ago and it just didn't pan out' – RemedyKirk McKeand — 4 April 2019
  11. 11Alan Wake 2 announced for PS5Sam Lake — 9 December 2021
  12. 12The next 'Remedy Connected Universe' game is already in developmentAndy Chalk — 7 August 2020
  13. 13Alan Wake developer Remedy regains publishing rightsTom Phillips — 1 July 2019
  14. 14Alan Wake Remastered Release Date AnnouncedTom Marks — 10 September 2021
  15. 15Alan Wake 2 revealed, will be Remedy's first survival horror gameMichael McWhertor — 9 December 2021
  16. 16Alan Wake 2 devs could make the game 'we wanted' thanks to EpicWill Nelson — 30 October 2023
  17. 17Company announcement 09:00 am (EET) 12 November 2021 BUSINESS REVIEW January–September 2021 (unaudited)Remedy Entertainment Plc — 12 November 2012
  18. 18Alan Wake 2 Isn't A Horror Game, It's A Twin Peaks GameLee D'Amato — 2023-11-08
  19. 19Why Remedy Entertainment went all in on Saga Anderson in Alan Wake 2Alessandro Fillari — 13 November 2023
  20. 20Alan Wake 2's Sam Lake explains Twin Peaks: The Return's 'bold' influenceGiovanni Colantonio — 2023-09-27
  21. 21MagazineAlan Wake II Is Far Darker Than Its Predecessor—and Perfects the Horror GenreReid McCarter — 4 November 2023
  22. 22NewsWriting Alan Wake 2 - Interview with Sam Lake16 October 2023
  23. 23NewsSam Lake, gaming's genre-bending auteur, on breaking realityGene Park — 16 December 2023
  24. 24Alan Wake 2 is bringing back the third-person camera and lead actor Matthew PorrettaHirun Cryer — 14 December 2021
  25. 25Alan Wake 2 voice actors & cast listDonovan Erskine — 2 November 2023
  26. 26Alan Wake 2: Every Returning Character From The Original And ControlDennis Moiseyev — 9 November 2023
  27. 27Alan Wake 2 has the best 15-minute stretch in a video game in yearsMike Mahardy — 30 October 2023
  28. 28Alan Wake 2s Best Scene Was Nearly Cut From The Game, Sam Lake RevealsMark Delaney — 4 November 2023
  29. 29The Old Gods of Asgard are The Game Awards' best musical guest yetMike Mahardy — 7 December 2023
  30. 30Alan Wake 2 Interview: 13 Years Of Struggle, Saga's Relation, And Significance Of DLCsMudassir Hussain — 17 October 2023
  31. 31Alan Wake II on yksi Suomen kalleimmista kulttuurituotteista, ja siitä voi tulla Remedylle kultakaivosLiisa Niemi — 27 October 2023
  32. 32Alan Wake 2 on kymmenien miljoonien eurojen selviytymiskauhua – yksi vuoden odotetuimmista peleistä on täynnä Suomi-viitteitäMattias Mattila — 26 October 2023
  33. 33Alan Wake 2 Gets Major Anniversary Update TomorrowRyan Dinsdale — 2024-10-21
  34. 34Alan Wake 2 on PlayStation 5 - Remedy raises the bar for visuals yet againOliver Mackenzie — 26 October 2023
  35. 35Alan Wake 2 Requires Mesh Shaders, Excluding Most Older GPUsMark Tyson — 30 October 2023
  36. 36Mesh shaders explained: What are they, what's the big fuss, and why are they only in Alan Wake 2?Nick Evanson — 30 October 2023
  37. 37Introduction to Turing Mesh ShadersChristoph Kubisch — 17 September 2018
  38. 38Upcoming Alan Wake 2 patch drastically improves GTX 10-series performanceAlex Battaglia — 3 March 2024
  39. 40Alan Wake 2's Use of Lighting Shouldn't Be Taken for GrantedCameron Swan — 3 November 2023
  40. 41Alan Wake 2: a deep dive into Remedy's high-end ray tracingAlex Battaglia — 5 November 2023
  41. 42Testing Alan Wake 2: Full Path Tracing and Ray Reconstruction Will Punish Your GPUJarred Walton — 27 October 2023
  42. 43Nvidia Reveals DLSS 3.5: AI-Powered Ray ReconstructionJarred Walton — 23 August 2023
  43. 44Alan Wake 2's Haunting Soundtrack Out Tomorrow, Includes 35 TracksLiam Croft — 13 May 2024
  44. 45Celebrating Alan Wake's 14th Anniversary with a New SoundtrackMiika Huttunen — 13 May 2024
  45. 46How Petri Alanko scored 'Alan Wake 2' with mayhem and miraclesAndy Brown — 1 March 2024
  46. 47Interview: Taking the Hiss with Control Composer Petri AlankoGraham Banas — 8 October 2019
  47. 48'It seems it has its own mind': the bizarre and terrifying instrument behind Alan Wake 2's soundtrackDom Peppiatt — 8 March 2024
  48. 49Alan Wake 2 won't be available on discJay Peters — 25 May 2023
  49. 50Alan Wake 2 Spooked By October Games Onslaught, Delayed 10 DaysLevi Winslow — 17 August 2023
  50. 51Why Alan Wake 2 Isn't On SteamEddie Makuch — 2023-10-26
  51. 52Alan Wake 2 will get free DLC and two full expansionsHirun Cryer — 25 May 2023
  52. 53Alan Wake 2's deliciously bizarre Night Springs DLC out this weekend, physical version finally due later this yearTom Phillips — 7 June 2024
  53. 54Fortnite Update 26.30 Adds Alan Wake, Michael Myers, and Jack Skellington OutfitsWesley Yin-Poole — 10 October 2023
  54. 55Fortnite put a whole other dang game in FortniteJoshua Riveria — 17 October 2023
  55. 56Get Alan Wake 2 free with select Nvidia RTX 40 GPUsRosalie Newcombe — 11 October 2023
  56. 57Alan Wake II is Nvidia's next RTX 40 series bundle, available now until November 13Daniel Sims — 10 October 2023
  57. 58Dead by Daylight's TOME 18: REVISION Highlights Alan Wake & The Deathslinger2024-01-31
  58. 59Dead by Daylight Officially Adds Alan WakeMichael Brandon Ingram — 2024-01-30
  59. 60Remedy reveals surprising ideas behind Alan Wake 2 DLC's new chapters, charactersReid McCarter — 8 June 2024
  60. 61Alan Wake 2 Lake House DLC will be another slice of full on horror, with new playable character and enemy typeVictoria Kennedy — 17 October 2024
  61. 62New Alan Wake 2 Night Springs expansion launches June 8, first detailsVida Starcevic — 7 June 2024
  62. 63The Lake House expansion releases October 22ndVida Starčević — 17 October 2024
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  66. 67Alan Wake 2 Reviews26 October 2023
  67. 68Review: Alan Wake 2Smangaliso Simelane — 2 November 2023
  68. 69Alan Wake 2 review: Remedy's endlessly creative sequel embraces its dark sideGiovanni Colantonio — 26 October 2023
  69. 70Alan Wake 2 review - incredible style, overbearing writingAlexis Ong — 26 October 2023
  70. 71MagazineAlan Wake 2 Review - Back To RealityKyle Hilliard — 26 October 2023
  71. 72Alan Wake 2 Review - A Miracle IlluminatedMark Delaney — 26 October 2023
  72. 73Alan Wake 2 review: 'An imaginative and truly ambitious sequel'Josh West — 26 October 2023
  73. 74Review: Alan Wake 2Cory Wells — 26 October 2023
  74. 75Alan Wake II ReviewTristan Ogilvie — 26 October 2023
  75. 76Alan Wake 2 review: don't sleep on this unsettling horror thrillerVikki Blake — 31 October 2023
  76. 77Alan Wake 2 reviewRobin Valentine — 31 October 2023
  77. 78Alan Wake 2 review – a new horror game classicAndrew Farrell — 26 October 2023
  78. 79Alan Wake 2 Review (PS5)Aaron Bayne — 26 October 2023
  79. 80Alan Wake 2 review: Flexibly frightful fictionTJ Denzer — 26 October 2023
  80. 81Alan Wake 2 review – a confidently strange horror thrillerRick Lane — 26 October 2023
  81. 82Review: Alan Wake 2 is a confident, ground-breaking thrillerJordan Middler — 26 October 2023
  82. 83Alan Wake 2 reviewKelsey Raynor — 26 October 2023
  83. 84MagazineThe 10 Best Video Games of 2023Richard Newby — 29 November 2023
  84. 85Alan Wake II: Night Springs Expansion (PC Critic Reviews)
  85. 86Alan Wake II: Night Springs Expansion (PlayStation 5 Critic Reviews)
  86. 87Alan Wake 2: Night Springs Reviews26 June 2024
  87. 88Alan Wake II: Night Springs DLC ReviewTristan Ogilvie — 12 June 2024
  88. 89Alan Wake II: Night Springs ReviewJordan Minor — 20 June 2024
  89. 90Review: Alan Wake 2: Night Springs (PS5) — A Short Yet Sweet Example of Remedy's PedigreeAaron Bayne — 11 June 2024
  90. 91Alan Wake II: The Lake House Expansion (PC Critic Reviews)
  91. 92Alan Wake II: The Lake House Expansion (PlayStation 5 Critic Reviews)
  92. 93Alan Wake 2: The Lake House Reviews29 October 2024
  93. 94Alan Wake 2: The Lake House DLC review — an undercooked facsimile, or something more deliberate?Katharine Castle — 25 October 2024
  94. 95Alan Wake II: The Lake House DLC ReviewTristan Ogilvie — 24 October 2024
  95. 96Review: Alan Wake 2: The Lake House (PS5) — Stellar DLC Paints a Path Forward for the Remedy UniverseAaron Bayne — 23 October 2024
  96. 97Alan Wake II sales top 1.3 millionSal Romano — 2024-02-16
  97. 98NewsAlan Wake 2 fastest-selling Remedy game, but yet to turn a profitVictoria Kennedy — 2024-02-16
  98. 99Alan Wake 2 Hasn't Fully Recouped Development and Marketing Costs YetShubhankar Parijat — 29 April 2024
  99. 100Alan Wake 2 Still Hasn't Made Back Its Budget9 August 2024
  100. 101Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2Rebekah Valentine — 2024-11-01
  101. 102Alan Wake 2 has only sold 1.8 million copies19 November 2024
  102. 103Capital Markets Day 202419 November 2024
  103. 104Alan Wake 2 has sold more than 2 million copies, Remedy is now making royalties from it2025-02-12
  104. 105Alan Wake 2 has now become a 3 million sellerBen Lyons — 2026-08-11
  105. 106Alan Wake 2 wins Critics' Choice Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023Joe Donnelly — 10 November 2023
  106. 107Here are all the Golden Joystick Awards 2023 winnersSam Loveridge — 10 November 2023
  107. 108The Game Awards 2023 Nominations: Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3 Lead the Pack With Eight Noms Each (Full List)Todd Spangler — 13 November 2023
  108. 109Baldur's Gate 3 leads New York Games Awards 2024 nominationsSophie McEvoy — 5 January 2024
  109. 110Baldur's Gate 3 wins big at New York Game Awards 2024Sophie McEvoy — 2024-01-24
  110. 111Spider-Man 2 receives most nominations for 2024 DICE AwardsSophie McEvoy — 11 January 2024
  111. 112The D.I.C.E. Awards 2024 winners & finalistsSam Chandler — 15 February 2024
  112. 113VES Awards: 'The Creator' & 'Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse' Early Winners At Visual Effects Society ShowErik Pedersen — 21 February 2024
  113. 114Game Developers Choice Awards releases finalistsDean Takahashi — 16 January 2024
  114. 115Game Developers Choice Awards 2024 Winners: The Full ListAdam Bankhurst — 20 March 2024
  115. 116Bafta Games Awards 2024: Baldur's Gate 3 and Spider-Man lead nodsTom Gerken — BBC News — 7 March 2024
  116. 11720th BAFTA Games Awards: The NominationsBAFTA — 7 March 2024
  117. 118The 60 Best Video Games of 202314 December 2023
  118. 119SFWA Announces the Finalists for the 59th Nebula AwardsKathryn Baker — 2024-03-15
  119. 1202024 Hugo AwardsWorld Science Fiction Society — 29 March 2024
  120. 121New York Game Awards 2024 NominationsJennifer Maas — 2025-01-07
  121. 12223rd G.A.N.G. Awards Winners — Full ListSabrina Hutchinson — 2025-03-21

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