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VOLCANO WATCH: Casualty number two! Nottingham's GameCity has had to cancel a special Alan Wake event because special guest Sam Lake can't fly from Finland to the UK.

The great Eyjafjallajökull ash-cloud in the sky permits none passage.

GameCity had arranged the Alan Wake extravaganza for this Saturday at the Broadway cinema. Lake, writer of the game, was going to show Alan Wake before fielding questions and revealing what life at developer Remedy is like.

Find out more about Nottingham's GameCity over on the official website.

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Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #1 2 years ago

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Confusing writing a story about Sam Lake who wrote Alan Wake.
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cianchristopher #2 2 years ago

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Sam Lake? Nice Finnish name he's got!

Reminds me of David Cage. Why would a games designer adopt a "stage name"?
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Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #3 2 years ago

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Was it Eyjafjallajökull? I can't remember. Oh, yes it was!
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DonnieDarko333 #4 2 years ago

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Bet he wished it would delay the game again as well....if they ever needed a reason...haha
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cozeny #5 2 years ago

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What a disappointing resolution.
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Cpt.Hindsight Verified Certification Project Lead, Electronic Arts #6 2 years ago

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@cianchristopher his real name is Sami Jarvi, "Jarvi" being Finnish for Lake. Thanks Wikipedia
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kangarootoo #7 2 years ago

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""Jarvi" being Finnish for Lake"

But surely his name is still Sami Jarvi?

Rikki Lake doesn't change her name to Sulphur Jarvi when she visits Finland (thats what google says anyway - the sulphur bit, not Rikki Lake's holiday plans).

Edited by kangarootoo at 21/04/10 @ 16:47
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Cpt.Hindsight Verified Certification Project Lead, Electronic Arts #8 2 years ago

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Yeah that may be Kangarootoo but Sam Lake sounds cool and I guess it means he gets to give himself a stage name whilst remaining true to himself :S
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Deckard1 #9 2 years ago

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games gonna suck anyways. It doesn't have nearly enough pixels to be any good. Yeah so the graphics look amazing, the story sounds great, the gameplay looks interesting, its one of the most atmospheric looking games I've seen, and its from the deveopers of max payne 2 which was one of my favourite games of last gen - it just doesn't have the pixels to satisfy my needs. What the hells the point of even releasing when its got so few pixels. Any true gamer will avoid this game like the plague and play something with the correct amount of pixels. How am is this game gonna win forum battles against the PoS3 fanboys without enough pixels to throw at them. I hate this game. Hate it.
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Skooch #10 2 years ago

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Sounds like it is all up in the air.
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darleysam #11 2 years ago

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If they reschedule, I may just have to day-trip to Nottingham. I've loved this guy's work since the first Max Payne.
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yupyup #12 2 years ago

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VapourScare
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frankfurter209 #13 2 years ago

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Deckard1 wins about 10 times over.
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Mr.Monkey #14 2 years ago

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Sam Lake, also Max Payne! (At least he was for MP1)

Edited by Mr.Monkey at 21/04/10 @ 17:38
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Dave797 #15 2 years ago

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This will all blow over in a few days
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X #16 2 years ago

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Wake me up when this is out.
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mkreku #17 2 years ago

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Stupid Eyjajaflallallalajökull..llell
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The-Bodybuilder #18 2 years ago

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I'm just waiting for the dust to settle on this one...
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Scientist #19 2 years ago

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Pedant alert:
It's Järvi not Jarvi. ä is a distinct letter in the Finnish alphabet rather than simply an accented a, and appears after y in the dictionary. It's an important distinction in Finnish. Still stupid stage name, given the simple Wake/Lake rhyme.
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joggi #20 2 years ago

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"bet 10 bucks nobody can spell Eyjafjallajökull ! "

Exorbit i'm from Iceland so you own me those 10 bucks

Edited by joggi at 23/04/10 @ 01:11
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kangarootoo #21 2 years ago

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@Cpt.Hindsight

This is true.

Wish I was called Sam Lake... instead of Senior Bertram Mischief McTurvey. I'd get so many chicks with a name like that.
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Moribundman #22 2 years ago

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Does Sam Lake always look as constipated as he did in Max Payne?
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GooseUK #23 2 years ago

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"Does Sam Lake always look as constipated as he did in Max Payne?"

I still have an old, old PC Zone which previewed Max Payne. There was a caption below an image of Max which read something like "Max Payne looks like a bull-dog licking piss off stinging nettles"

This is probably my only recollection of being twelve, other than the film 'Volcano' was not as good as 'Dante's Peak' What a coincidence
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