New York Game Awards to honour Sam Lake

Treatment’s artistic director Sam Lake will obtain the Andrew Yoon Legend Award on the 14th annual New York Recreation Awards.

The Andrew Yoon Legend Award is offered to those that have made a major mark on the business.

Final yr, Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann received the accolade. Previous winners embody Hideo Kojima, Phil Spencer, and Tim Schafer.

“You recognize a Treatment recreation while you see it, largely because of Sam Lake’s affect on the worlds he creates,” stated New York Video Recreation Critics Circle president and founder Harold Goldberg.

“It is actually cool to see how his 20-year profession at Treatment has touched so lots of our members and interns on the Circle, and we’re thrilled to have him be part of the roster of esteemed recreation changers beforehand recognised with the Andrew Yoon Legend Award.”

Lake joined Treatment in 1995 as a author on the studio’s first recreation, Demise Rally. He had a number of roles in Max Payne’s improvement, together with lead author and being the face mannequin for the titular character.

He created the Alan Wake franchise, which launched in 2010. Lake was lead author and co-director on its 2023 sequel and supplied movement seize for the character of Alex Casey, voiced by the late James McCaffrey.

Lake additionally co-directed Quantum Break and wrote Management.

The 14th annual New York Recreation Awards shall be held on the SVA Theatre on January 21, 2025.