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Remedy Entertainment Oy , internationally doing business as Remedy Entertainment Ltd . ( commonly referred to as Remedy ), is a Finnish video game developer based in ___MASK40___ , ___MASK20___ . Founded in 1995 , the company is best known for developing " Max Payne ", " Alan Wake ", and " Quantum Break ". Sami Järvi ( born 18 July 1970 ) , better known by his artist name Sam Lake ( ' Järvi ' is Finnish for lake ) , is a Finnish writer who is known for his work on the popular Max ___MASK68___ video game series and for writing Alan Wake . Lake is good friends with Petri Järvilehto , a founding member ___MASK75___ Remedy Entertainment , the company behind Max ___MASK68___ . Järvilehto needed help with script writing in one ___MASK75___ Remedy ' s early games , Death Rally , and invited Lake to write . Järvi also wrote the script for the upcoming game named Quantum Break for the Xbox One , for a 2016 release . The Xbox 360 is a ___MASK60___ video game console developed by Microsoft . As the successor to the original Xbox , it is the second console in the Xbox series . The Xbox 360 competed with Sony ' s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part ___MASK75___ the seventh generation ___MASK75___ video game consoles . The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12 , 2005 , with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ). ___MASK40___ is the second largest city and municipality in ___MASK20___ . The population ___MASK75___ the city ___MASK75___ ___MASK40___ was 269 , 802 . It is part ___MASK75___ the Finnish Capital Region , and most ___MASK75___ its population lives in the inner urban core ___MASK75___ the Helsinki metropolitan area , along with the cities ___MASK75___ Helsinki , Vantaa , and Kauniainen . ___MASK40___ shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa , while enclosing Kauniainen . The city is on the shore ___MASK75___ the Gulf ___MASK75___ ___MASK20___ , in the region ___MASK75___ Uusimaa . Alan Wake is a psychological horror action - adventure video game developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Microsoft Studios , released for the Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows . The story follows ___MASK84___ - selling thriller novelist Alan Wake , as he tries to uncover the mystery behind his wife ' s disappearance during a vacation in the small fictional town ___MASK75___ Bright Falls , Washington , all while experiencing events from the plot in his latest novel , which he cannot remember writing , coming to life . Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft , responsible for the development and publishing ___MASK75___ games for the Xbox , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Games for Windows , Steam , Windows Store , and Windows Phone platforms . They were established in 2002 as Microsoft Game Studios to coincide with the already released Xbox , before being re - branded in 2011 . The subsidiary had also been known as Microsoft Game Division and simply Microsoft Games before 2002 . Microsoft Studios develops and publishes games in conjunction with first and third party development studios under their publishing label . ___MASK20___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK20___ , is a sovereign state in Northern Europe . A peninsula with the Gulf of ___MASK20___ to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west , the country has land borders with Sweden to the northwest , Norway to the north , and Russia to the east . Estonia is south of the country across the Gulf of ___MASK20___ . ___MASK20___ is a Nordic country situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia , which also includes Scandinavia . ___MASK20___ ' s population is 5 . 5 million ( 2014 ), staying roughly on the same level over the past two decades . The majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region . In terms of area , it is the eighth largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union . Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in ___MASK9___ , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of 2016 , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . Psychological horror is a subgenre ___MASK75___ horror literature , film , television , and video games ( as a narrative ) which relies on the character ' s fears and / or psychological instability to frighten readers , viewers or players . On a few occasions , Psychological horror overlaps with the psychological thriller subgenre , making whatever story ___MASK75___ the genre more unpleasant as well as terrifyingly suspenseful . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily ___MASK75___ graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists ___MASK75___ several families ___MASK75___ operating systems , each ___MASK75___ which cater to a certain sector ___MASK75___ the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows 10 Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile . A video game developer is a software developer that specializes in video game development  the process and related disciplines ___MASK75___ creating video games . A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large business with employee responsibilities split between individual disciplines , such as programming , design , art , testing , etc . Most game development companies have video game publisher financial and usually marketing support . Self - funded developers are known as independent or indie developers and usually make indie games . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as ___MASK75___ the 2000s , it implies any type ___MASK75___ display device that can produce two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . Death Rally is a top - down perspective vehicular combat racing video game developed by Remedy Entertainment , published by Apogee Software and distributed by GT Interactive Software . Originally known as " HiSpeed " during development , it was released in 1996 for MS - DOS . In the game , the player starts with $ 495 and a weak car named " Vagabond " ( based on the VW Beetle ), and must compete in deadly races where all cars are armed ( although a game without guns is an option ). The player wins money by finishing in front positions , collecting money bonuses during the race , fulfilling missions and destroying other cars . The ultimate goal ___MASK75___ the game is defeating the " Adversary ", the undisputed king ___MASK75___ " Death Rally ", in a one - on - one race . MS - DOS (; acronym for " Microsoft Disk Operating System ") is a discontinued operating system for x86 - based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft . It was the ___MASK89___ commonly used member ___MASK75___ the DOS family ___MASK75___ operating systems , and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s and the early 1990s , when it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface ( GUI ), in various generations ___MASK75___ the graphical Microsoft Windows operating system by Microsoft Corporation .