To this day, Alan Wake remains one of Remedy Entertainment's most enduring franchises, even if it's really just one core game and a notably wackier DLC adventure. Though review scores were generally high (IGN gave it an 8.5 , and it's eventual PC port a 9.0 ), Alan Wake didn't exactly fly off the shelves. Instead, the franchise found a longer, more modest lifespan through nearly a decade of sales events and a dedicated cult following, but no sequel has ever materialized. On this month's episode of IGN Unfiltered , famed Remedy games writer Sam Lake stated that he still wants to make a proper Alan Wake 2.

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"I want to make it. It's a curious thing," Lake told IGN. "At this point, so much time has passed. I feel that the bar is higher in some ways. It needs to be done right if it's ever done. Everything needs to click into place, which is really hard to make it happen. So many things, for these big games to be greenlit, need to be aligned. But I'm hoping that someday...."On this month's IGN Unfiltered, which releases tomorrow at 9am PT/12pm ET, Sam Lake sat down with IGN editor Ryan McCaffrey to discuss the history behind Remedy's biggest franchises, including Max Payne, Alan Wake, and the upcoming Control. The pair also discuss Lake's career, how a love for fantasy and poor translations turned him into the writer he is today, and how Remedy is taking back much of its artistic "control" with the upcoming Control.IGN Unfiltered is a monthly interview show focused on the lives and careers of video games' biggest developers, actors, and leaders. You can find every episode here , with notable guests like Fallout and Elder Scrolls director Todd Howard , Eternal Darkness director Denis Dyack , Ubisoft founder Yves Guillemot , and many more.

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