Remedy Entertainment is a Finnish computer game developer founded in 1995 and based in Espoo, Finland. Aside from Alan Wake, the company is best known for its Max Payne series of video games.

HistoryEdit

In 1997, Remedy created a program called Final Reality, a 3D benchmark program. In November 1997, Remedy created a new company that would handle its 3D benchmark program called Futuremark. That program would turn into 3DMark, a popular 3D benchmark program that determines the performance of a video card with the latest graphics.

Before forming Remedy, four of the founding members were in the demoscene group Future Crew. Originally there was some industry speculation that Remedy was comprised entirely of Future Crew members, but this was dismissed by Joe Siegler of partner-company 3D Realms.

The Max Payne series of games are based on the character Max Payne and his living nightmare through New York City. Payne is a fugitive undercover cop who is framed for murder and hunted by the NYPD and the mob. The Max Payne series is best known for popularizing bullet-time in a video game as well as being influenced by film noir. In 2002, Remedy sold all rights to Max Payne to Take-Two Interactive for US$10 million and 969,932 shares of stock.

Remedy's latest series, Alan Wake, just completed its latest entry, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, for Xbox 360. The first game takes place at the fictional small town of Bright falls in Washington, where Alan Wake meets the evil forces of the Dark Presence and combats them to save his kidnapped wife Alice. He has to sacrifice himself and take her place in the Dark Place, and begins working on writing himself out. This sets the scene for American Nightmare, where Wake has written himself into what most fans think is an episode of Night Springs in Arizona, where he combats his evil doppelganger, Mr. Scratch. The games were published by Microsoft Game Studios. Their next project is as of yet unknown.

List of GamesEdit