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Sam Lake is the creative director of Alan Wake 2, and the model for one of the characters in the game.

The winners of the GamesBeat Summit 2024 Visionary and Up-and-Comer Awards

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
May 22, 2024
5 min

GamesBeat unveiled its 2024 Visionary Awards at the close of the GamesBeat Summit event in Los Angeles. The Visionary Award winner is Remedy creative...

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Larian Studios team leaders accepted the award for Game of the Year at the Dice Summit.

Conversations from the Dice Awards green room

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 23, 2024
11 min

Last week, the luminaries of the game industry accepted awards on stage at the Dice Awards event in Las Vegas before hundreds of their...

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Alan Wake has to escape from The Dark Place in Alan Wake 2.

Alan Wake 2 — A tardy review reminding you not to skip this gaming masterpiece

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 3, 2024
8 min

Alan Wake 2 is a masterpiece of video game design, full of so many memorable scenes. Everybody knows this thanks to plenitude of Game...

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Why it took Remedy 13 years to create the creepy detective tale of Alan Wake 2 | Sam Lake interview

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 27, 2023
12 min

Alan Wake 2 is a complicated narrative that we have come to expect from Sam Lake, the creative director at Remedy Entertainment, and his...

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Epic Games Publishing will release Alan Wake Remastered this fall

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 7, 2021
3 min

Remedy Entertainment announced it will make Alan Wake Remastered, a fully remastered version of the 2010 classic game about a writer whose haunting visions...

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Sam Lake is the creative director at Remedy Entertainment.

Sam Lake interview — How storytelling creates value in games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 27, 2019
14 min

For the past 24 years, Sam Lake has been the creative director at Remedy Entertainment, writing the stories that have become the heart of...

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Remedy doubles down on narrative gaming with Control

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 20, 2018
9 min

One of the pleasant surprises at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) game trade show last week came from Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment and...