Remedy’s managing director criticize game journalism
Alan Wake draw in many people and stirred up a lot of talk lately. Why not? The game has been in development for over 5 years, and it’s undoubtedly one of the most anticipated games in 2010. One of the hottest topics to pop up lately on the internet about Alan Wake is: Does Alan Wake Run in 720p or 547p Native Resolution?
It was reported on NeoGaf that Alan Wake, was only running at the resolution of 547p by user MazingerDUDE (the same person who found out that the Xbox360 version of Final Fantasy XIII runs at 576p). Then, Remedy’s community manager clarified on Alan Wake’s official forums that the game runs at 720p stating that the pics used in MazingerDUDE’s analysis “are based off footage captured at 960×540.” Those videos were released by two of the most known videogame publications, Gamepro and Videogameszone. As he added that “Videogameszone and Gamepro both released footage without approval and due to the fact that we don’t know how many compressions their videos went through or what process they took it’s best not to use those videos as sources.”
Now, Matias Myllyrinne the Managing Director of Remedy’s entertainment spoke publicly about the issue on his twitter account and stated the following:
“Game journalism is not about playing a game in 10 minute segments and posting random quality videos on the net. Disappointed.”
Nevertheless, Alan Wake looks fantastic. But did Videogameszone and Gamepro gone too far by releasing some low resolution videos for Alan Wake without Remedy’s approval? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.


Already been said: video resolution don’t change the result of the native resolution!!
The video can be running at up to 1080p or 480p … no matter … the native resolution is like a “digital” … if it is 720p, it will be evident in whatever the quality of a video.
Posted on April 18th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
@Desmios by that logic a 4×4 pixel camera would be good enough.
Posted on April 18th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
The videos posted would not affect the results. There is pixel stepping and general pixel counting that shows this.
Posted on April 18th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Who cares about the resolution as long as the game looks good? On the topic of the gaming journalists who released the videos when they were not supposed to do that. Did they have a contract or agreement with Remedy and did they break it by posting the videos? If the answer is yes then they shouldn’t have done it.
Posted on April 18th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
MazingerDude (Aka ZZinga) is asshole.
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 5:11 am
찡가섹은 복돌이 ㅋㅋ
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 5:13 am
십활세계로뻗어가는찡가의찌질함
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 5:35 am
한국의 엑박은 http://tunebox.co.kr 로 얘기할 수 있다.
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 6:57 am
위에 광고하지마 병신아
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 7:07 am
찌질함을 만천하에 알리다
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 7:12 am
Im surprised that is all he had to say. The gaming media is completely biased in favor of Sony/PS3. Where are all the articles pointing out the lack of 1080p 120fps that we were promised by Sony in PS3 exclusives?
NO ONE points out that PS3 has turned out to not even come close to what they promised and to this day is STILL losing the features that it does have. (linux, BackCompat, card readers) Yet we get media outlets making fools of themselves because they are so anxious to put out some negative crap about a 360 game they don’t even do the simple thing of calling up Remedy to ASK what resolution the game actually runs in.
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
alan wake is …..is…….is…..very dark.
Posted on April 20th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
and gamepro is whack…it’s a crock of shit website…they ban you for being honest…and then they go pull this stunt….shame on you gamepro.
Posted on April 20th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Ahmad Dajani,how many cigarettes Microsoft is ginving you in Jordan to write this biased article?
Posted on April 29th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
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