Tag archive: Alan Wake

Beginning next month, Microsoft will begin its next push into the lucrative and growing field of downloadable games, when it begins its “House Party” event. Starting on February 15, Microsoft will release a new downloadable game each week. But rather than the normal arcade games, these titles are some of the highest profile arcade games to hit XBL. A release schedule hasn’t been unveiled yet, but the titles are: Alan Wake: American Nightmare,… Read More

Remedy's Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake was a breath of fresh air for video games when it finally arrived in 2010 after an extended development period. Here was a game that seemed to be putting story ahead of everything else. It was fun to play, with combat built around mechanics involving light and shadow, but the narrative was the real hook, with its serial TV drama-style presentation and episodic arrangement. Remedy's recently… Read More

Whatever you're expecting from Alan Wake's American Nightmare, just forget it. While the standalone Xbox Live Arcade release that Remedy has set for early next year shares plenty of common ground with 2010′s long-delayed and super-fun Alan Wake, the tone of things in the coming release takes a very sharp turn away from the older game's serial TV drama feel. I learned as much last week when I got to check out a hands-off… Read More

It’s kind of a good news, bad news thing for fans of Remedy Entertainment’s Xbox 360 exclusive, Alan Wake. The good news is that a sequel is in the works. That shouldn’t come as too big a shock though. The game received high critical praise, sold decently and Remedy stated that it saw the first game as the first season of a much larger story. But here’s the rub: According to a new report from CVG—which must still be considered as a rumor for… Read More

There have been two developments on the Alan Wake front that happened in quick succession over the past 24 hours. Yesterday, a LinkedIn resume for CG character animator Althea Suarez Gata revealed that work has been done for Remedy Entertainment on something listed as Alan Wake 2. Then, early this morning, Joystiq delivered a follow-up comment from Remedy's head of franchise development, Oskari Häkkinen, who wrote to the website in an… Read More

These last two weeks have been interesting. Before CES, Warner Brothers basically gave up on HD DVD and Toshiba (in what was an amazing lack of good judgment) clearly putting HD DVD on the ropes (and the newly lowered prices came too late to make a difference). This was followed by CES which really lacked anything that I would call a true break-out new product of the iPod or iPhone caliber. This week we had MacWorld, and while it is… Read More