Annapurna & Remedy Join Forces for ‘Alan Wake’ and ‘Control’ Film & TV Adaptations

The plan is for the Alan Wake and Control video games to get potential small and big screen adaptations from Annapurna, an official press release from Remedy Entertainment details. Today’s press release announces, “Remedy Entertainment Plc (“Remedy”) announces a strategic partnership agreement with Annapurna Pictures (“Annapurna”). Annapurna will finance 50% of the development budget for […]

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‘Alan Wake’ Available Now in ‘Dead by Daylight’; Time-Limited Event Coming February 7 [Trailer]

The day’s finally arrived for Alan Wake to enter The Fog and join Behaviour Interactive’s Dead by Daylight. Alan Wake joins the asymmetrical multiplayer title as the latest Survivor as part of Tome 18: Revision. You know the story by now: best-selling author Alan Wake has a case of writer’s block. A trip to Bright […]

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New ‘Dead by Daylight’ Trailer Spotlights Upcoming ‘Alan Wake’ Chapter and Perks [Watch]

Behaviour Interactive dropped their surprise last week regarding Alan Wake making the leap to Dead by Daylight later this month. Now they’ve released a new Spotlight trailer for the upcoming Chapter, highlighting Alan Wake’s character Perks that players will be able to use. It’s also narrated by Alan Wake’s voice actor Matthew Porretta, who will […]

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Alan Wake Comes to ‘Dead by Daylight’ on January 30th [Trailer]

The teasing by Behaviour Interactive yesterday on X didn’t lie: Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight! Fresh from last year’s accolades, the author heads into the fog in the latest chapter for the asymmetrical horror game on January 30th. Wake is voiced once again by Matthew Porretta and based on the likeness of […]

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‘Max Payne’ Voice Actor James McCaffrey Has Passed Away at 65

Veteran film and television star James McCaffrey, who was best known to video game fans as the voice of Max Payne in the Max Payne series, has passed away at the age of 65. Initially announced by friend and The Blob actor Kevin Dillon on Dillon’s Instagram, McCaffrey’s passing was later confirmed by TMZ via […]

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6 Meta Horror Video Games to Play After You Finish ‘Alan Wake 2’

From The Cabin in the Woods to House of Leaves, meta-horror can be one of the most entertaining sub-genres for die-hard fans when made by passionate creators. However, I think videogames are the medium with the most potential when it comes to immersing us in meta-narratives. I mean, the very concept of someone controlling a […]

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Bright Falls: How ‘Alan Wake 2’ Creates Environments Worth Exploring

The prospect of wandering around large, expansive game worlds used to fill me with excitement. Upon escaping the tutorial dungeon for the very first time in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I distinctly remember being overwhelmed by the sheer scale of that virtual playground rolling out before me, and the endless adventures that it tacitly […]

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‘Alan Wake II’ Review – A Remarkable Achievement in Survival Horror Gaming

Alan Wake II is a sequel 13 years in the making. A lot of expectation comes with a wait of that caliber. Developer Remedy has attempted to make the long-awaited sequel numerous times over the past decade, from the spin-off Alan Wake’s American Nightmare to their Xbox exclusive game Quantum Break that began production as […]

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‘Fortnite’ Fortnitemares 2023 Brings Michael Myers, Jack Skellington and Alan Wake Into the Event [Trailer]

Fortnitemares is back again in Fortnite this year. Alongside the usual Halloween-themed costumes, the annual Halloween event reaches into Haddonfield, Halloweentown and Bright Falls to bring Michael Myers, Jack Skellington and Alan Wake into the fold. On now until November 2nd, Fortnitemares focuses on vampires this year, with Fortnite players taking on Kado Thorne’s threat […]

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Six Disturbing Moments of Cosmic Horror in Video Games

As Lovecraft once put it, “the oldest and strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown,” which I think perfectly summarizes why cosmic horror stories are so effective. Commonly defined as a subgenre of fiction that derives scares from existential and/or incomprehensible threats, cosmic horror presents us with situations where knowledge isn’t necessarily […]

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Remedy Entertainment Paid a Dollar to Stephen King to Use His Quote for ‘Alan Wake’

Stephen King‘s a pretty cool guy, if you didn’t know. Not only has the master author set up a program to allow students to use the rights to his novels for just a dollar, but Stephen King had also done the same dollar deal with Remedy Entertainment and Alan Wake. Speaking to Eurogamer, Remedy’s Sam […]

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Six Other Horror Video Games That Deserve the HBO Treatment

2013’s The Last of Us managed to connect even with gamers who don’t usually play horror titles, so it makes sense that HBO selected the massively popular IP to be their first high-profile video game adaptation. Of course, genre fans know that Survival Horror games have always boasted engrossing plots and characters, with their slower […]

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Remedy Reveals News on ‘Alan Wake 2’, ‘Alan Wake Remastered’ for the Switch and TV Series [Video]

Remedy has dropped a whack of Alan Wake related info as part of the game’s 12th anniversary. Along with news on Alan Wake 2, Alan Wake Remastered will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. In addition, for those who have been waiting on that Alan Wake TV series, Remedy has finally snagged a deal to […]

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Horror in a Box: 20 Years of Exclusive Horror Games For Xbox Consoles

What started as a snicker for many gamers way back in 2001 has gone on to become a successful endeavor for Microsoft. True, the Xbox has always played runner-up to Sony’s PlayStation, and it wasn’t without its growing pains (the initial Xbox controllers, the infamous 360 Red Ring of Death), but the extraordinarily large game […]

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New Secrets In ‘Alan Wake Remastered’ Have Set My Fan-Theory Brain On Fire

“Beyond the shadow you settle for, there is a miracle illuminated.” Those words by Thomas Zane spoken in Remedy’s Alan Wake are not as often quoted by fans as some other go-to lines–something like “It’s not a lake, it’s an ocean” comes to mind as a fan-favorite. But I nonetheless had Zane’s line on my […]

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