12th July 2025 Courtney Hope Guest Stars in Behind The Voice's Latest Episode

Just hours ago, Behind the Voice published their latest podcast episode, featuring special guest Courtney Hope, aka Beth Wilder and Jesse Faden!

Throughout their forty-five-minute conversation, Abhi and Courtney talk about a range of topics from Jack and Beth's relationship, the weird world of motion capture, her role within the Remedy Connected Universe and, of course, her reaction to getting the lead role in a video game. Check out the full conversation below or on the Behind the Voice YouTube channel, HERE. 

In 2016, Courtney Hope made her video game debut portraying Beth Wilder in Quantum Break, a Monarch-infiltrator. The 2016 title was split into two parts; a video game focusing on the heroes and a live-action show focusing on the villains. The complexities of her character led to Hope starring in both, bringing her talents both to traditional cameras and motion capture.

A few years later, she worked with Remedy again, this time as Jesse Faden in Control, a woman looking for her missing brother who stumbles in the role of Director. With both projects tonally different, the stories showcased her extraordinary acting abilities, from the heartbreaking scenes avoiding Monarch at the Bradbury Swimming Pool, to the cool authoritative determination throughout her character's arc at the FBC. 

In case you missed it, over the past couple of years, Abhi has spoken to an array of Remedy actors and developers including Ilkka Villi (Alan Wake, Mr Scratch, Thomas Zane), David Harewood (Warlin Door), Matthew Porretta (Alan Wake, Dr Casper Darling, Mr Scratch) Christina Cole (Christina Cole) Janina Gavankar (FBC Agent Kieran Estevez), and recently Shawn Ashmore (Jack Joyce, Tim Breaker). He has also crossed into the development side, speaking to Sam Lake (Creative Director) Kyle Rowley (Game Director).

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11th July 2025 Amelia Rose Blaire Dechart & Bryan Dechart to Attend MCM London Expo

The guest announcements for MCM London Expo in October have officially begun, and there's a familiar face already on the line-up! In October, Amelia Rose Blare Dechart, who played Amy Ferrero in Quantum Break, will be at the event across all three days. She will be in attendance along with her husband, fellow actor and livestreamer, Bryan Dechart. 

Both actors will be signing autographs, appearing in photo shoots, and taking to the stage. While we'll need to wait closer to the event to know the final schedule, the organisers have already revealed the prices for the early guests. For Amelia's autograph, the price will be £40, or £75 paired with Bryan's. If you want to have a professional photograph taken with both actors, it will be £82, or £58 for just one. 

While acting may be considered as their main career, both Amelia and Bryan have gained additional fame as livestreamers. Together they host, DechartGames, a Twitch channel which have been thriving since its start in 2018. While their community was formed following the release of Detroit: Become Human, a Quantic Dream title they both acted in, their watchers are also passionate about Remedy. Fans of Quantum Break will remember Amelia as the actor behind the fierce anti-Monarch Solutions university student Amy Ferrero. Together they have completed Alan Wake Remastered, Quantum Break, and Control, with Alan Wake 2 currently on the line-up.

 
If you're attending the event, make sure to keep an eye out for Remedy gatherings! UKRC has been arranging a series of incredible gatherings across the country. All fans are welcome, regardless of whether you're cosplaying or just want to meet up. While they haven't announced their autumn convention dates just yet, you can follow them on Instagram, Bluesky or Twitter for when they go live. 

Described as “the biggest Pop Culture celebration in the UK”, MCM London Expo will be held between 24th - 26th October 2025. The three-day event is dedicated to nerd culture, spotlighting anime, video games, TV, and film. Returning once again to the ExCeL in central London, the exhibition centre is situated next door to the DLR and Elizabeth Line, and is surrounded by hotels for attendees. Tickets start at £27, and can be purchased online. You can find more information about the event on their website, HERE. 

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10th July 2025 FBC: Firebreak's Jerry Returns For New F.A.S.T Training [Episode Five: Frequency Shift]

The fifth episode of Surviving The Workplace has officially gone live on the Remedy's YouTube. This time, Jerry (and his long-suffering assistant Alex) focus on the current penultimate Job, Frequency Shift, discussing what Firebreakers should and shouldn't do while exploring the Research Section.

In the mission, players are tasked with removing exogenic masses (aka Pink) which are blocking the FBC turbines and fixing the vital electrical equipment. The masses provide both threat and puzzle, with pathways and shelters blocked by this mysterious organism. Much like the Paper Chase job, the Pink sticks to Firebreakers which can lead to deadly consequences. 

Surviving the Workplace is a new six-part video series published on the Remedy YouTube channel. Centred around their latest launch, FBC: Firebreak, the series is hosted by the Operations bureaucrat Jerry Standish, whose training session takes the form of delightful puppets. It's like a less intense Threshold Kids. You can catch up on the series, HERE.

Watch the full video below or on the Remedy YouTube channel, HERE. Plus scroll down for a transcript of the video!

Surviving the Workplace | Frequency Shift (FBC: Firebreak) Transcript

(A sign appears on screen reading, "Surviving The Workplace and You. #087 Pink? Thanks but No Thanks.)

Jerry Standish: In today's Firebreak Auxiliary Safety Training, we'll be tiptoeing into the wondrous world of threshold breaches and exogenic mass. But first, three F.A.S.T. facts about the mass! Fast.

Jerry Standish: F.A.S.T. fact number one! Exogenic mass is pink. F.A.S.T. fact two! Although the definition of "exogenic" often means something formed on the surface of the Earth. Here, the FBC is relying on its other definition, which is "something formed outside of a system", and in this case, the system we're talking about being outside of... is basically Earth, or at least its dimension. F.A.S.T. fact three! Exogenic mass doesn't like our attempts to remove it. So, if you allow it to form on your body, it will try to make you explode. Got it? Okay.

Jerry Standish: Let’s join some Firebreakers at the site of the breach and research to watch what happens when they become faced with a serious job site safety decision.

(The curtains draw together and reopen to reveal the new job site along with three Firebreaker puppets surrounded by an ominous pink mass. They quickly take down one of The Hiss.)

Alex #1: Wow! I haven't seen this much pink in one place since watching a game of that sports team I like whose uniforms are all pink. How about you, Alex?

Alex #2: The same, Alex. Let's make sure to keep our distance. Much like the speed of the athlete from that popular sports team you referenced, this stuff is explosive!

(The puppets fire at the exogenic mass which disintegrates. The curtains close and re-open on Jerry.)

Jerry Standish: Keeping your distance from volatile substances on the job site. Really good thinking there, Alexes! Ahhh, but I wonder what could have happened if Dave had been in charge.

(Jerry shakes his head as the curtains close. When they re-open moments later, we return to the job site.)

Dave: Oh, look at all this pink. Pink is the colour of lame dolls and the only crayon I never use. I'm going to go get it, and bring it to a trash can because it's trash, and that's where trash goes.

Alex #1: Wow. You really hate pink, Dave, and that's okay, but I don't think we should touch it.

Dave: Stop trying to protect the trash. Come here you trash.

(Dave starts to collect the exogenic mass.)

Alex #2: Dave! Look out! Hiss!

(The Hiss fire at Dave, who is now covered with exogenic masses. A large "BAM" sign is lifted up in shot.)

Dave: I'm dying. I'm dead.

Jerry Standish: Urgh. Woof! Well, at least he was right about one thing. Pink. Thanks, but no thanks.

(The sign from before appears in front of Jerry as he bats it away.)

Alex: Oops. Sorry. Sorry.

Jerry Standish: So remember, everyone, when job site danger calls, Be an Alex. Not a Dave.

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9th July 2025 Sam Lake Collaborates with Sami Ryhänen on New Sculpture w. Audioscape by Petri Alanko

Something a little different for today... 

If you're able to visit Fiskars in Finland, this Summer, you're in for a special treat! Sam Lake (Creative Director on Alan Wake 2) recently collaborated with master blacksmith, Sami Ryhänen, on a new art piece which made its debut last month. The artwork, Theatre of the Absurd, is currently on display at the Onoma summer exhibition, UTOPIA. The artwork is paired with an audioscape created by composer, Petri Alanko.

The Utopia Exhibit features over forty artists, exploring the topic of a dream society and the hidden labours it hides. The show will run until August 31st 2025 at the Kuparipaja exhibition, and open Monday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm. Entrance tickets start at €8 with Museum Card / Smartum / ePassi options available, and can be purchased online. 

You can learn more about the exhibition on the Onoma website, HERE! 

Curated by Anna Ruth, the artwork chosen for the exhibition "is for the most part sculptural, and focuses on the use of different technical, physical and exploratory processes. The exhibition includes a combination of monumental, solid structures and in contrast, weightless, intricate objects. As if the shadow cast by solid visions were a reminder of the fragile existence of dreams." Though described as Utopia, her goal with the exhibit is to showcase the blind spots and labour cost of visionary orders. 

Often the topic of science fiction and far flung futures, several of the artists have also taken inspiration from modern day contrasts. The internet has shaped our lives in so many ways and deadly diseases which haunted our ancestors are not the death sentence they were before. During a global pandemic, scientists were able to study, develop and roll out a vaccine for Covid-19 the same year as the first lockdowns. We've never been more fortunate. At the same time, we live on a planet slowly warming and consuming itself. In 2023 1.25 million people died of Tuberculosis, a disease for which wealthy countries had a cure since the 1950s. 

Ruth's continues, "I am always intrigued about the periphery and what is left out. That which it is not included, helps define that which is. My understanding of utopia is that of a daydream for a new social order. A system with specific parameters existing only as an intangible vision, glowing on the horizon. When we think of utopia, the focus is commonly on the ultimate goal and rarely on the cost. We might talk about making, creating or building a utopian society, but we do not talk about the labour or what must be given up for its realisation."

It's in its contrasts that The Theatre of the Absurd fits perfectly.  "The opposite of utopia is called dystopia, or a lucid nightmare of suffering and injustice; the complete failure or deterioration of the paradisaic system. In this exhibition, I hope to bring these polar binaries closer together, not to emphasise opposing realities but to expose hell as an inextricable aspect, indispensable for the creation of paradise. I am interested in the tension between inside and out, as the framework that allows a utopia to take shape. Just as death is a part of life, dystopia is an embedded aspect of utopia."

The Theatre of the Absurd fits perfectly into that darker side of a utopia, with a poem portraying the darker and desperate side of social media. The sculpture features a tree, withered and contorted through neglect. Thin branches hold up shiny metal orbs which distort the viewer, seemingly to mirror the misrepresented self-image that social media platforms often convey.  

Writing on Instagram, Sam Lake posted, "I absolutely loved working with the brilliant Sami Ryhänen @onnellisensepanpaja on Theatre of the Absurd. Art collaborations when it clicks are my favorite thing. There was plenty of that in Alan Wake 2, but it’s very liberating to do that outside games and purely as art. Sami contacted me and suggested this and I’m so happy I said yes. I wrote the poem, he created the sculpture and Petri Alanko @petrialanko recorded my voice-over and created the audioscape (you need to visit the gallery to get the full experience). The Utopia exhibition is open till the end of August." 

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