sucks to see brands use the same language real mentally ill people use when they're struggling to cope, but here it's used for clicks and to sell a product. parasocial relationships are easily formed with celebrities, but this is on a whole another level of exploiting that
how many more "talented individuals" (workers) will need to "leave" (be fired) from game studios before we talk louder about workers' rights in the game industry and the fact that the "difficult decisions" are ALWAYS worker layoffs and NEVER c-suite pay cuts
We have signed an agreement with 505 Games to co-develop and co-publish Control 2, a sequel to Control. Read the announcement:
This is a very exciting moment for us! Mikael Kasurinen, Game Director of the franchise, tells more:
I'm gonna be sending a lot of emails and DMs tomorrow morning, so if you're interested in the possibility of me giving you a code to play alan wake remastered, reply to this tweet and I'll probably go 'hell yeah!'
extending video game characters' existence outside the game & into social media & giving them personalities seems logical in the ~current landscape, but there's lines you should be careful of crossing, and ways to do it that are less exploitative of people's emotional labour
kjnkjfds okay I was in the room when ilkka first walked in wearing the zane look and it was truly an 'everyone on the bus clapped' moment bc we did all in fact hoot and holler about how good he looked
I've been laughing about how threads by meta will not be launching in europe 'for the foreseeable future' because it's not compliant with GDPR and EU privacy laws for HOURS (I wish US/UK had much better privacy legislation!!)
2018 vs 2024
hi this week makes six years (6!) of working at
@remedygames
. I got hotter, older, more tired, and marginally better at taking lift selfies with alan.
I've learned so much from and got to work with so many admirable, great people. very grateful. disbelief 💛
I'm glad we did this. I'm happy that we got so many really cool female streamers to participate. I was really afraid of the comments looking the way they do under this tweet, but I'm glad we did this. it shows we need to keep doing it. even though I'm tired, and sad, I'm hopeful
depressing. arkane austin and tango gameworks have always been making innovative, interesting, award-winning games. hi-fi rush was amazing. prey was great. redfall flopping wasn't the fault of any of the hardworking devs that made that game. just heartbreaking. rage inducing.
btw thank you to all of y'all making these and similar memes. back in the day when I first started at Remedy I had to make them myself and now I just right click save. making my job easier
as more alan wake fans follow me I want to let you know that you're fine. it's all fine. I was forged in the fires of livejournal and tumblr. I get it. boy do I ever. we will not be crossing the streams out here. you lot have fun and be nice the way you have been and we're golden
yall need to stop making bottom-only content for BG3 romances. how can I get immersed in this beautiful game if it doesn't represent me. there's already a top shortage in the world larian, do not make it worse for us. if astarion tried to do this to me I'd break his arm btw
hiiii I took these (and all the other ones on the instagram post), I'm not a pro photographer by any stretch of the imagination but I'm fairly happy with how these turned out! especially because I was using a big girl camera instead of a phone lmao
YÖTÖN YÖ had its premiere screening at Kino Laika (founded by director Aki Kaurismäki and writer and poet Mika Lätti), the perfect setting to show the cast and crew the final product of their hard work.
YÖTÖN YÖ is available to watch in the Dark Place.
#AlanWake2
#AlanWake
kicking my little feet and giggling with glee as I see a long thread on the
@remedygames
slack praising the BIG TITLE TEXT in alan wake 2 💛 hearing it from first-hand sources that the title text in alan wake 2 is bigger than the title text in control. we are soaring. flying
I couldn't possibly pick a favourite AMA question we received because there were so many good ones,
but if I had to pick a favourite. we were all bigging this one up. there were IRL laughs. couldn't imagine NOT answering it.
I'll leave you with a piece from
@WearYourVoice
on celebrity and stanning, which I think hits upon some good points on how we view celebrities, and while we don't have to stop liking someone, it can be beneficial to examine how we engage with them:
coolest update and juiciest update notes yet. includes stuff like:
☑️ chapter select
☑️ FOV slider (PC)
☑️ the option to reduce the intensity of the horror flashes (thank you for all the feedback and the patience!!)
☑️ crossbow cult stash fix
☑️ heaps more QoL fixes and upgrades
⚒️Update 1.15 for Alan Wake 2 is out now on all platforms.
This update includes Chapter Select, which lets you pick any mission of the game to replay to your heart's content. Great news for dark ocean summonings, champions of light, heralds of darkness and achievement hunters!
Happy Valentine's Day. 💙
Here is our love letter to Alan Wake 2, showing how the game evolved during the course of development.
📺 Watch here:
Thank you for all your love and support!
#AlanWake2
Alan Wake 2: The Original Soundtrack will be available across major music services on May 14th.
Composed by
@Peppepappa
. Includes 4 songs by
@Poe
+ Yötön Yö (performed by Martti Suosalo). Brought to you by
@Laced_audio
.
More on our blog:
I AM WATCHING SO MANY VIDEOS OF PEOPLE REACTING TO THE "WE SING" PART OF ALAN WAKE 2 (IT COUNTS AS WORK) AND IT IS THE BEST FUCKING THING EVER. THE PART IN THE GAME OBVIOUSLY. BUT EVERYONE'S REACTIONS MOST OF ALL. I'M SO HAPPY FOR EVERYONE WHO MADE IT AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES IT
dunno about resi, but a lot of the pnw in alan wake 2 (especially watery!) is inspired by real places in the region with a long-standing tradition of finnish immigrants! astoria, oregon is one of those places 🥰
it’s hilarious how Finnish alan wake 2’s rural Washington state is. it reminds me of how Raccoon City of resident evil was more like a Japanese city than the midwest.
I AM OVERJOYED WE DID THIS WITH
@TheSuddenStop
AND WITH THE WONDERFUL
@JadenRachel
💛💛💛 the sudden stop has been such a hugely positive presence in the remedy community. the place wouldn't be what it is without rachel and her efforts and her dedication.
we hope you love this.
We can't thank you enough for the love and support you've shown
#AlanWake
these 11 years… but I can try.
I wrote you a letter on our lovely, long-time fan site,
@TheSuddenStop
.
Welcome to Bright Falls, again, for the first time. ❤️ 🔦 This is for you.
all of the songs crafted for alan wake 2 have been crafted from the ground up by some of finland's leading songmakers. lyrics are inspired by
@SamLakeRMD
's poems, and play a significant role in the storytelling and plot. first single out now. album out on the 27th.
this is sick
no but this is the greatest day of my fucking LIFE seeing this chapter take shape was like christmas coming 2463 times a year. I can't wait to play this. ALANNNNNN
@yellowbat79
the account is for a LoL character. there's a real voice/musician behind the songs they publish, but the account and everything about it looks like it's for promoting the new character
@AnnaHollinrake
dunno to what extent there's a real person behind the sentiment they're trying to express on this account: there's definitely a real musician recording the songs! but this part of it just makes me so uncomfortable bc it redirects people's empathy to an avatar. and for what!
glad to hear y'all (the gay alan wake 2 fans in my phone) liked the acceptance speeches from matt and ilkka for the arab game awards. it's a shame we couldn't have got them together in person but I'm grateful they were v keen and able to do this after all <3
the great news is that I've learned how to screen record like a pro
the better news is that you'll have to watch this video to find out why that matters
yay
HELLO FELLOW HUMAN TEENS I HEARD THE COOLEST PLACE FOR US TEENS TO HANG OUT IS T h e E n o r m o u s I n v e r t e d P y r a m i d LETS GO DO NOT BRING WEAPONS
tonight we announced:
🔦
@ControlRemedy
art book
🔦 Steam AMA with
@MikaelKasurinen
, August 18th
🔦 Control gets Assist Mode in a free update
🔦 new mode in AWE lets you replay bosses and the Ashtray Maze
🔦 light and dark mechanic in AWE
🔦 Alan Wake is back, and he's sexier th
I'm livid to see companies say "we are firing 900 people in order to grow the business and be more profitable" in the same breath that they call their business venture a "family". you can't have both. solidarity with the SIE workers. ✊
Good things, like good coffee, take time.
Airam and Remedy Entertainment, two Finnish household names, have collaborated to bring you the official Oh Deer Diner thermos. Completely true to the thermos bottle found in the game.
Coming fall 2023. ☕
#AlanWake
working on this game has taken me all over the world and had me meet some awesome people and amazing coworkers. we are
#1yearincontrol
this week! I'm blessed to have an amazing community around
@ControlRemedy
, so thank you. couldn't do it without you. ☎️💛
casper darling's fandom name is 'darlings'. this is 100% official, I have an email from mr. matthew porretta calling y'all that and now it's on an official graphic from the checkmark account
you're welcome
I got asked on insta about my fashion inspiration and I just wanna give a shoutout to
@official_yoon_
for teaching me about: sunglasses, how to (half) tuck your shirt and roll up your sleeves, and the value of really damn good jeans 🙏🙏🙏🙏💙💙💙💙
11 years ago, alan wake came out in the US on the same day as red dead redemption
today, it's the 11th anniversary of alan wake's release... on the same day that mass effect legendary edition comes out
#11yearsofAlanWake
Welcome to Bright Falls.
The Alan Wake Collection expands with brand new Outfits, including the Legendary Rose Marigold Outfit. Now available in the in-game store.
what's good
#gamescom2019
reply to this tweet with 🔥🔥🔥 if you're coming to play
@ControlRemedy
at the show!
remember,
@PlayStationDE
booth, hall 7, all days of the show! get a dynamic ps4 control theme when you play!
INT. REMEDY ENTERTAINMENT, GAME STUDIO.
GAME DESIGNER (chanting)
teeth, teeth-
RIGGING ARTIST
teeth, TEETH
COMMUNITY MANAGER
the former doesn't really have teeth th-
WRITER, pounding their clipboard
TEETH, TEETH, TEETH
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!
this is going to be the one and only big big preview of AWE that you'll see before the expansion comes out. this - and I cannot stress this enough - is IT. if you want to know more about what AWE is like, you want to be in this stream. fans, press, you wanna be tuning in to this.
Join us Thursday, August 13 at 7pm EEST on for the world premiere of AWE gameplay from
@ControlRemedy
.
We'll show the first 15 minutes of the game, a new weapon form, and a missing writer. Featuring
@SamLakeRMD
,
@MikaelKasurinen
, hosted by
@vidaisonline
.
alan wake 2 shipped today and I asked some of our devs what they were proudest of on the project. it all started with
@yourpalclay
and kinda spiralled from there. more on
@remedygames
' insta story!
this was a completely spontaneous video series born out of a conversation over ☕
I need to know if kyle maclachlan has a social media person or if he just does his tiktoks himself because all of them are fantastic and exactly the kind of stuff I want to see from kyle maclachlan. he takes videos of his dog and his garden and his wine, and also this
YEAH HE WILL
matt porretta is the original voice actor for alan and he lent his voice and his considerable talent to DBD! he did an absolutely fantastic job 💛
Trapped in a nightmare, Alan Wake has been trying to write his way out. But what happens when something else escapes?
Here there's only victims and monsters. And monsters wear many faces.
Alan Wake 2 releases October 27. Pre-purchase now at 🔦
#AlanWake