Baldur's Gate 3 has taken home Game of the Year at this year's New York Video Game Critics Circle 2024 New York Game Awards, as well as an award for Best Writing.
10.01.2024 - 00:45 / pcgamer.com / Sam Lake / Nicolas Cage / Alan Wake / Mathieu Côté / Matthew Porretta / Behaviour Interactive
One day after dropping a teaser that shone a pretty clear light on what was coming next, Behaviour Interactive has made it official: Alan Wake, the long-suffering writer and star of Remedy's Alan Wake games, is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor.
Alan Wake brings a trio of unique perks to the game, all of them specific to the character. Champion of Light grants Wake faster movement while he's using his flashlight, and if he blinds a killer with it, they'll be temporarily slowed. His Illumination boon enables him to create a totem that enables all nearby survivors to see the auras of generators and chests on the map, and lets him cleanse and bless totems faster. And finally, the Deadline perk increases the frequency of skill checks when he's healing other survivors or repairing generators while injured, and halves the penalty if he fails one—«Sometimes, you just have to write through a hand cramp,» Behaviour said.
And yes, this is the «real» Alan Wake, with new voice lines provided by Matthew Porretta, who voices the character in Remedy's award-winning survival horror games. (That's him in the trailer, too.)
«We are thrilled and honored to have Alan Wake enter the Fog of Dead by Daylight,” Remedy creative director Sam Lake said. „From our early excited conversations on about our collaboration with Behaviour Interactive, it was clear that the lore of both games were surprisingly compatible, drawing from many similar inspirations, a true match in… Hell.“
Dead by Daylight's previous big celebrity survivor, real-life actor Nicolas Cage, was really an unexpected and oddball bit of casting, although he threw himself into it enough to cause serious psychological trauma to features writer Harvey Randall. Alan Wake is a much more natural fit: The world he inhabits in his own games is more psychological horror than slasher flick and he's not going to be able to write his way out of an ugly encounter with Chucky, but the bottom line is that he's a guy desperately trying to escape a horrific realm he was sucked into through no fault of his own.
»Since it first launched back in 2010, Alan Wake has been a huge influence to us on the Dead by Daylight team,” Behaviour Interactive head of partnerships Mathieu Coté said. «From broad themes to specific elements, both our games already feel connected in many ways.
»This is a character we always thought would be right at home in the Dead by Daylight universe. To finally see Alan come to the Fog as a Survivor feels like a full-circle moment, especially as the recently released second entry in the franchise is still fresh in player’s minds."
Alan Wake is slated to arrive in Dead by Daylight on January 30, but you can step into his shoes now in the public test
Baldur's Gate 3 has taken home Game of the Year at this year's New York Video Game Critics Circle 2024 New York Game Awards, as well as an award for Best Writing.
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Dead by Daylight, the multiplayer survival horror released back in 2016, has had some eclectic crossovers in its eight years. From Chucky, to Halloween's Laurie Strode, to Nicolas Cage, it's giving Fortnite a run for its money.
You could say that Alan Wake 2 was decades in the making. Last year’s blockbuster from Remedy saw the studio return to its roots and the horrors therein, dredging up the past to loop into something new, now. But it wasn’t just the main character or gameplay style we saw return, but the sounds and inspirations of the original Alan Wake too, bubbling up from Cauldron Lake through the music of Poe.
What is it? A surreal survival horror sequel that also ties into Control and Remedy's other past games.Release date 27 October 2023Expect to pay $50/£40Developer Remedy EntertainmentPublisher Epic Games PublishingReviewed on Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAMSteam Deck N/ALink Official site
Alan Wake is coming to Dead By Daylight.
Asymmetric horror game Dead by Daylight has added Alan Wake, the protagonist of Remedy Entertainment’s series of the same name, to its roster.
Not content with his starring turns in Fortnite last year, everyone's favourite monologuing horror writer Alan Wake is preparing for another multiplayer crossover, this time making the jump to Behaviour Interative's asymmetrical horror game Dead by Daylight on 30th January.