A release date for the PC version of the psychological action-thriller Alan Wake has been announced. It will be available on February 16, and will cost $US29.99.
The Xbox 360 “House Party” of new downloadable games is official: Warp ($US10, February 15), Alan Wake’s American Nightmare ($US15, February 22), Nexuiz ($US10, February 29) and I Am Alive ($US15, March 7). You get $US10 in Xbox Points if you buy them all.
The makers of Alan Wake said yesterday that the PC version of the Xbox 360 exclusive will arrive in February. As it is self-published by Remedy, you don’t have to worry about it using the execrable Games For Windows Live: “Games for Windows Live will not be used; we will be fully supporting the Steam platform,” says developer Remedy Entertainment.
Yes, you read that right. Alan Wake now has a horde mode, and a rather good one at that. It seems that every game has one these days. However, is this something that Alan Wake fans want?
As game consoles become more like cable television boxes, maybe it’s time for video games to start becoming more like cable television shows.
Next year Mr. Scratch is coming for you.
Alan Wake may have been one of the most overlooked games of 2010, and I have vowed to one day go back and actually finish the thing. Maybe now I’ll do it on the PC!
This is Alan Wake: American Nightmare, the downloadable sequel to Remedy’s 2010 narrative game for the Xbox 360. In it, the protagonist author Alan Wake fights against his murderous doppleganger.
If you like teaser trailers that are shorter than your best burps, go watch the teaser for the new downloadable Alan Wake game. A longer trailer of some sort will air during the Spike Video Game Awards on December 10.
Darwin Yamamoto’s not that different than other gamers. He spends a lot of time looking at the faces — or, more accurately, the backs — of the medium’s heroes and heroines as they open up new worlds on his TV screen. But Yamamoto’s also an artist and user experience designer who’s done work on the look of Valve’s Steam platform and for various Microsoft products like Bing.
