Mesh Raises $22 Million in Series A Funding for Digital Asset Management Introduction Mesh, formerly known as Front Finance, has successfully raised $22 million in a Series A funding round to support the development of its innovative service. The startup aims to assist customers in transferring and managing digital assets such as cryptocurrencies. This latest…
The League Introduces “GoalMate”: A New Feature for Driven Individuals Let’s face it: Traditional dating app filters aren’t cutting it. While sharing the same basic interests like yoga or watching movies is nice to have in a relationship, it’s also important to find a partner who is equally motivated and shares similar ambitions. The League,…
Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise: OpenAI’s Business-Focused AI Chatbot App Seeking to capitalize on ChatGPT’s viral success, OpenAI today announced the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise, a business-focused edition of the company’s AI-powered chatbot app. Enhanced Features for Effective Business Communication ChatGPT Enterprise, which OpenAI first teased in a blog post earlier this year, can perform the same…
Dragon Pig Z In Dragon Ball Z, Vegeta and his friends use a mythical and particularly practical tool: the scooter, a kind of ultra-technological bezel to calculate the power of an opponent. An easily recognizable and largely rooted in pop-culture device, obviously totally fictitious.. until now. Finally, or almost. We explain to you. At the…
Baldur’s Gate 3: a thunderous start for Larian’s RPG Baldur’s Gate 3: a thunderous start for Larian’s RPG While our test is underway, players from all over the world have embarked on the adventure with an Illithid larva stuck behind the eyeball. The goal ? Discover comment get rid of it or, on the contrary,…
AMD Plans to Develop AI Chips for Chinese Market AMD Sees Opportunity in Chinese Market AMD has announced its intention to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) chip specifically for the Chinese market. This move is in response to U.S. export curbs and follows similar actions by competitors Nvidia and Intel. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD,…
Xpeng Secures $700 Million Investment from Volkswagen for Joint Development Chinese electric car startup Xpeng has announced a major collaboration with Volkswagen, receiving a $700 million stake to jointly develop two cars specifically designed for the Chinese market. This partnership comes at a crucial time for Xpeng, as the company seeks funding, while foreign automakers…
Sega Cools Its Interest in Blockchain Gaming Sega is reportedly cooling its interest in blockchain gaming. While it’s not dismissing the technology entirely, Bloomberg reports that Sega has shelved plans to develop its own blockchain games for the time being. According to Sega co-chief operating officer Shuji Utsumi, “The action in play-to-earn games is boring….
Poorly redacted documents reveal PlayStation’s budget for blockbuster games Poorly redacted documents published as part of the Microsoft vs. FTC court battle have laid bare the scale of PlayStation’s budgets for its modern blockbusters. One document published on Wednesday discusses the huge sums required to develop major first-party games at Sony Interactive Entertainment, redacting key…
Lauded writer Stephen King sold the rights to use one of his quotes in the opening of Alan Wake for $1, according to Remedy.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Remedy’s Sam Lake said that he desperately wanted, to open the game with a quote from King, whose work is clearly a huge influence on the first game.
Creating the original Alan Wake, I really, really desperately wanted a quote from him to start it off, Lake told Eurogamer. It’s my understanding he wanted $1 for us to get the rights to use it. [It was] so very generous.
The quote in question is: Stephen King once wrote, ‘Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there’s little fun to be had in explanations; they’re antithetical to the poetry of fear.’
In a horror story, the victim keeps asking why – but there can be no explanation, and there shouldn’t be one. The unanswered mystery is what stays with us the longest, and it’s what we’ll remember in the end.
The quote is from an Entertainment Weekly article from 2008 entitled, Why Hollywood can’t do horror, in which King lamented the inability of big studios to develop horror films for a mass audience.
AsumeTech recently sat down with co-director Kyle Rowley and principal narrative designer Molly Maloney to talk about how Alan Wake 2 differs from its predecessor, and what other pieces of media inspired the sequel.
When asked about the comparisons to King’s work in the first game, and what media influenced the follow up, Molly Maloney said: I’d say True Detective comes up a lot.
Lauded writer Stephen King sold the rights to use one of his quotes in the opening of Alan Wake for $1, according to Remedy. Speaking to Eurogamer, Remedy’s Sam Lake said that he “desperately wanted,” to open the game with a quote from King, whose work is clearly a huge influence on the first game….
End of content
End of content