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Alan Wake Collector’s Edition for PC Gets Detailed, Out on March 2

Remedy Entertainment has just posted the official details about the Alan Wake Collector’s Edition that will appear for the PC platform at the beginning of next month. After delighting Xbox 360 owners with its unique story and intense gameplay, Alan Wake is finally making its debut this week onto the PC through...

14 February 2012
18:31 GMT

New Alan Wake's American Nightmare Dev Diary Video Shows Plenty of Gameplay

Remedy Entertainment has just posted a fresh developer diary video for its upcoming Alan Wake's American Nightmare downloadable game. After impressing quite a few people with Alan Wake on the Xbox 360 back in 2010, Remedy is back, this time with a downloadable spinoff called Alan Wake's American Nightmare....

13 February 2012
14:31 GMT

More Alan Wake Experiences Are Coming If Fans Want Them, Studio Says

Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the Alan Wake series, has revealed that it always wants to please fans so, if they want more Alan Wake experiences, the studio will definitely make their desires come true. After the impressive Alan Wake for the Xbox 360 back in 2010, Remedy Entertainment decided to branch out ...

13 February 2012
03:10 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Gets New Video, Fresh Screenshots

Remedy Entertainment has just deployed a fresh video about its upcoming Alan Wake’s American Nightmare title, this time with the developer talking about the features that are included in the survival game. The original Alan Wake delighted lots of Xbox 360 owners back in 2010 with impressive gameplay and a shar...

10 February 2012
02:40 GMT

Alan Wake Out for PC on February 16

Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that Alan Wake for the PC platform will be released via digital distribution platforms like Steam on February 16, in both a standard and a limited collector’s edition. Alan Wake impressed quite a lot of Xbox 360 owners with its dark atmosphere and clever third person shooter ...

3 February 2012
19:31 GMT

Alan Wake on PC Gets System Specs, Lots of Details, Is Out on Steam in February

Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the Alan Wake series, has just confirmed some more details about the PC edition of the franchise’s first game, including system requirements, information about its content, as well as a release date of February. Alan Wake impressed millions of Xbox 360 owners two yea...

23 January 2012
06:55 GMT

Remedy Loves What Rockstar Has Done with Max Payne 3

Max Payne 3 is one of the high profile video games that will be launched early in the year and the developers at Remedy, the studio which created the first games in the series, believe that Rockstar has done a good job of capturing the essence of the franchise.Oskari Hakkinen, who is the leader of franchise developme...

18 January 2012
02:51 GMT

Alan Wake Developer Working on ‘Groundbreaking AAA Console Project’

Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the recent Alan Wake game as well as its upcoming Alan Wake’s American Nightmare downloadable spinoff, has just listed a job opening for a “groundbreaking AAA console project.” Remedy Entertainment is currently working on two Alan Wake projects, in the form of...

18 January 2012
02:34 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Lasts Around 4-5 Hours

Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the popular Alan Wake game, has confirmed that the next installment in the series, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, will take around 4-5 hours to complete. Alan Wake became quite popular on the Xbox 360 console and is now getting ready to make its debut this year on the PC...

17 January 2012
17:31 GMT

Kasabian Will Feature on Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Soundtrack

Video game developer Remedy Entertainment and EMI Music Publishing Scandinavia have announced that they are working together to bring two tracks to the soundtrack of the upcoming Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, with Kasabian providing “Club Foot” while Ed Harcourt delivers “watching the Sun Co...

17 January 2012
07:04 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Gets Extended Trailer, New Screenshots

Remedy Entertainment has just deployed a brand new batch of screenshots from the upcoming Alan Wake’s American Nightmare downloadable title, as well as an extended version of the reveal trailer we saw last week, after the game’s official announcement that took place at the 2011 Video Game Awards.The origi...

22 December 2011
15:41 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Has Horde-style Fight ‘Til Dawn Mode

Slowly but surely more and more details about Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, the next installment in the shooter series from Remedy Entertainment, are beginning to appear, with new information now confirming that the downloadable title will have a Fight ‘til Dawn mode, similar to Gears of War’s Hor...

19 December 2011
15:51 GMT

Alan Wake on PC Arrives Via Steam, Games For Windows Live Support Not Likely

Remedy Entertainment has revealed a few more details on the upcoming Alan Wake PC edition, confirming that it will be released on Steam using its Steamworks suite and that support for Microsoft’s Games for Windows Live system has yet to be decided upon.While most PC game developers these days choose to use Valv...

19 December 2011
04:30 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Gets First Concrete Details

The first actual details about the upcoming Alan Wake’s American Nightmare downloadable installment in Remedy Entertainment’s third person shooter series have just appeared, and it looks like it’s going to be a much more action-oriented experience.The original Alan Wake delivered a novel gameplay me...

16 December 2011
14:21 GMT

Alan Wake Officially Coming to PC in Early 2012

Remedy Entertainment has officially confirmed that it will be bringing its Alan Wake title to the PC platform in early 2012, after the announcement was teased for quite some time and even leaked yesterday.Alan Wake originally started out as a multiplatform release, but the publishing deal with Microsoft made it possi...

15 December 2011
06:41 GMT

Alan Wake PC Version Leaked by Steam Registry Listings

Alan Wake is getting ready not just for a downloadable adventure on the Xbox 360, in the form of Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, but also for a trip to the PC platform, at least according to some listings from the Steam registry that were spotted by eagle-eyed gamers.Alan Wake impressed lots of Xbox 360 gamers ...

14 December 2011
14:21 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Gets Officially Revealed with First Trailer

The 2011 Video Game Awards event delivered on its promise to showcase the new Alan Wake experience, in the form of American Nightmare, a downloadable adventure that sees the writer go to the town of Night Springs where he must face off against the infamous Mr. Scratch.Alan Wake, the third person shooter with deep psy...

12 December 2011
05:02 GMT

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare Leaked by German Ratings Board

The USK, which is Germany’s ratings board for video games, has just posted a listing for Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, which, by all accounts, might be the upcoming downloadable title in the franchise made by Remedy Entertainment.Alan Wake impressed quite a lot of Xbox 360 gamers back in 2009, deliverin...

9 December 2011
15:31 GMT

First Screenshot of the Downloadable Alan Wake: Night Springs Appears

Ahead of the actual reveal of Alan Wake: Night Springs at the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards, the first screenshot has been presented, showcasing Alan Wake and his trusty flashlight standing in front of a Motel near the town of Night Springs, where the action of the downloadable game might take place.We heard last w...

8 November 2011
12:21 GMT

Alan Wake Developer Defends New Downloadable Game

Remedy Entertainment, the Finnish developer of iconic titles like Max Payne 1 and 2, not to mention the more recent Alan Wake, has made a few statements about the game's sequel, which will be announced as a downloadable title at the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards.Alan Wake impressed quite a lot of gamers, even ...

7 November 2011
05:50 GMT

New Alan Wake, New BioWare Game, And MGS: Rising Details Arrive at 2011 Video Game Awards

The first actual details about the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards have finally been revealed to the world, and it's safe to say that although many great games will compete for prizes, the real treats are the massive reveals that are scheduled to happen throughout the show.The 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards wil...

4 November 2011
08:01 GMT

Alan Wake Achievements III (Xbox 360)

Alan Wake is a video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, the Finnish studio responsible for the Max Payne series, and published by Microsoft exclusively for its own Xbox 360 home console, released on May 14, 2010, in Europe, and May 18, in North America, as an all-new experience that combines classic survival hor...

25 August 2011
07:51 GMT

Alan Wake Achievements II (Xbox 360)

Alan Wake is a video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, the Finnish studio responsible for the Max Payne series, and published by Microsoft exclusively for its own Xbox 360 home console, released on May 14, 2010, in Europe, and May 18, in North America, as an all-new experience that combines classic survival hor...

24 August 2011
13:51 GMT

Alan Wake Achievements (Xbox 360)

Alan Wake is a video game made by Remedy Entertainment, the Finnish studio behind the Max Payne series, and published by Microsoft exclusively for its Xbox 360 home console, released on May 14, 2010, in Europe, and May 18, in North America, as an all-new experience that combines classic survival horror mechanics and ...

23 August 2011
13:31 GMT

Alan Wake Unlockables (Xbox 360)

Alan Wake is a video game developed by Remedy Entertainment, the studio behind the Max Payne series, and published by Microsoft exclusively for its Xbox 360 home console, released on May 14, 2010, in Europe, and May 18, in North America, as an all-new experience with survival horror and psychological thriller element...

22 August 2011
15:21 GMT

New Alan Wake Game Coming, Won't Be Alan Wake 2

A brand new Alan Wake game is set to appear later this year, as Remedy Entertainment, the developer of the first title, confirmed that a new experience is set to arrive, but said that it's not a full-pledged sequel. Alan Wake was an extremely ambitious project, but, because it spent quite a lot of time in dev...

11 May 2011
17:21 GMT

Alan Wake PC Cancellation Wasn't Its Developer's Decision

The axing of the Alan Wake PC project wasn't a decision made by its developer, Remedy Entertainment. The boss of Finnish development studio Remedy, Markus Maki, held a very interesting panel at last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, entitled ‘Alan Wake: The Writer Who Made Us Rewrite Ou...

8 March 2011
14:21 GMT

Download Free Windows 7 Alan Wake Theme

Microsoft has updated the Windows Personalization Gallery with fresh content designed for Windows 7 users. The Redmond company introduced a new theme pack which is bound to be embraced by Xbox 360 console owners that loved Alan Wake. Essentially, an Alan Wake theme pack is now available for download free of charge ...

19 January 2011
10:17 GMT

Remedy Has “Great Ideas” for Alan Wake 2

In a recent interview, Oskari Häkkinen, head of franchise development at Remedy Entertainment, expressed once again his company’s wish to develop a sequel to Alan Wake. He also said that he did not see any reason for the collaboration with Microsoft to end or for Alan Wake 2 to not exist. For the time bein...

10 August 2010
05:13 GMT

Remedy Thinks that Alan Wake Will Sell Better in Time

Alan Wake did not sell very well in the United States, according to the NPD numbers made available last month. Unfortunately for Remedy, their latest release managed to move only around 145,000 copies, a disappointing figure for the biggest Xbox 360 exclusive to come out this year. In spite of all this, the...

14 July 2010
03:15 GMT

Analyst: Red Dead Redemption Is Leading May Sales

The NPD Group sales numbers for both hardware and videogames for the month of May have been delayed as the company is upgrading its technology base but that does not stop analysts from weighing in about how various titles performed during the 30 days of the month. And it seems the biggest winner of the period is Red ...

30 June 2010
13:31 GMT

Microsoft May Be Planning More DLC for Alan Wake

Despite the pretty successful launch of Alan Wake, Microsoft has yet to confirm a sequel for the game, Remedy's Oskari Hakkinen says. The parent company of the Xbox 360 seems to want more episodic content for the title, meaning that a follow-up may be quite far off, given the small size of the development studio...

23 June 2010
18:21 GMT

Alan Wake's Second DLC Pack Is Called The Writer

The second downloadable-content pack for Alan Wake, entitled The Writer, has been revealed through the in-game menu. It is listed as coming soon and is set to cost 800 Microsoft Points, which is about ten dollars. It is not known as of yet if this listing is a glitch on Remedy's side, given the fact that the fir...

24 May 2010
05:10 GMT

Another Win for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

It's another weekly videogames sales chart for the United Kingdom market and another first place for the EA Sports made football simulation 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, the game which allows any player to take his favorite nation and lead it to the ultimate national glory available in the world of football....

20 May 2010
04:18 GMT

Alan Wake Could Have Scared Us with the Sand in Its Box

After a long line of delays, while Microsoft has finally a set launch date for Alan Wake, one that it might just keep to this time, just a few days ago, the publisher announced that the survival thriller wouldn't be making an appearance on the PC anymore. But with the game now an Xbox 360 exclusive title, it loo...

17 February 2010
02:44 GMT

Alan Wake Officially Dated for May 18

Microsoft has put out a flurry of news in the last few days, confirming a downloadable content pack for Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360 and a special bundle including a gaming console with a 250 GB hard drive and a copy of the Western release of Final Fantasy XIII.But for some gamers, the biggest news is that Micros...

15 February 2010
13:01 GMT

Alan Won't Be Waking Up on the PC Anymore

Mystery and controversy are always a good thing about a survival horror, and so are shocking announcements and tragedy, but this time some might say that Microsoft went a bit too far. After being announced five years ago as a PC game, as well as an Xbox 360 one, Microsoft, the Alan Wake's publisher, has announce...

15 February 2010
03:51 GMT

Microsoft Is Already Thinking About Alan Wake 2

Alan Wake is a bit of a shadowy game, and we don't just say that because it uses direct light as a main gameplay mechanic. The title has been in development for quite a few years now, and has gone through a lot delays. It promises a powerful and immersive experience and, while the gameplay is the one that has be...

2 February 2010
04:31 GMT

Alan Wake, Another Game to 'Blur the Line' Between Movies and Video Games

Video games and movies are starting to become closer and closer to one another, and not just through tie-ins and spin-offs. While there are plenty of movies based on video games and vice versa, some are taking a new approach to the symbiotic relationship between the two. If the movie DOOM had a first-person shooter s...

28 January 2010
03:27 GMT

Microsoft Relaunched X Gaming Expo

Microsoft has announced that it is planning to organize an Xbox 360 focused gaming expo in San Francisco during February. The first meeting of the same name was held in Cannes in 2001 and since then Microsoft has organized one every year in Europe until 2006, when the X conference and expo took place in Barcelona. Sm...

28 January 2010
02:53 GMT

Max Payne 3 Gets Another Delay

Take-Two Interactive suffered quite a blow this morning after it announced a drop in its full-year predictions for earnings. Following the model of the self-fulfilling prophecy, the company already paid the consequences for telling the truth and its stock dropped by 21 percent. Related or not, its fiscal report also ...

4 December 2009
06:09 GMT

Rumor Mill: Alan Wake Coming in Late May 2010

It seems that the release window for Alan Wake is getting ever narrower. Microsoft, set to handle publishing duties on the videogame, has already confirmed that it plans to launch the title sometime in the spring of next year and rumors are now saying that late May is the period when Alan Wake should arrive on store ...

17 November 2009
13:31 GMT

Alan Wake Instills Paranoia Within the Staff

You know a survival-horror game has some serious potential when it starts making the staff slightly insane. Threading on the edge of paranoia, one of the developers of Alan Wake discussed the possibility of cutting out the game's end for all pre-releases. Talking to G4TV, the developer shared his thoughts on the...

2 November 2009
03:41 GMT

Alan Wake Demo Still in the Air, Says Developer

Alan Wake is one of the gaming industry's largest mysteries, as it has been in development for quite some time at the studio responsible for the critically acclaimed Max Payne saga, Remedy Entertainment. Now though, for the last half a year, things have been starting to clear up regarding the mystery title, as ...

27 July 2009
03:23 GMT

Microsoft Will Decide on PC Version of Alan Wake

Recently, word has been circling around that Alan Wake, the long-in-development title at Remedy, will not get a PC version when it comes out in 2010. Until now, Remedy has not clearly stated its position, but it has done so now, and the news is rather bad for PC players.   Brightfalls, one of the biggest fan s...

16 July 2009
13:31 GMT

Alan Wake Apparently Not Coming to the PC

It seems that Alan Wake might not make it to the PC after all. Initial rumors appeared last week when the development team posted on the official forums about how efforts were being concentrated in the Xbox 360 version. Now prospects for PC gamers became even grimmer as one of the main people behind the game confirme...

13 July 2009
05:17 GMT

E3: Alan Wake Finally Coming in Spring 2010

Remedy and Microsoft have finally announced a release date for Alan Wake, which has been in development for quite some time (long enough for people to wonder whether we are looking at the next Duke Nukem Forever). The title is set to arrive exclusively on the Xbox 360 home gaming console in the spring of 2010 and an ...

2 June 2009
17:01 GMT

New Alan Wake Information Appears

Alan Wake is in danger of becoming vapor ware, one of those titles that have been announced and talked about but which never make it to the market. Initially it was unveiled in 2005 and there has been talk of the game arriving on gamers' desks for at least the last two years. Remedy, which is developing the game...

31 March 2009
14:01 GMT

Remedy Talks about the Much Awaited Alan Wake

You might know Remedy Entertainment as the creators of the hit shooter Max Payne. After claiming that the game made huge profits, it announced that a new title would be under development, called Alan Wake; since then, nothing has been heard of the Finnish developer. Nothing until recently, as with the launch of the M...

6 October 2008
19:01 GMT

Weekend Reading: What PC Games We'll See in 2008

What should I get? A PC, a console or a ping pong table? What will win this war? Well, I'm pretty sure that the answer to that question will be provided in 2009 when all the major publishers will either go slow on consoles or start focusing more on the PC, or they'll shift gears and go full throttle into th...

4 April 2008
20:06 GMT


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