Steam News · Oct 19, 2021
Microsoft has revealed a strong line-up of games coming to Xbox Game Pass over the remainder of October. As always, first-party Microsoft projects will launch into the service, as well as the usual assortment of indie and AAA projects. The releases begin today, with Outriders arriving on PC Game Pass, alongside indie retro FPS Into the Pit, which arrives on PC, console and Cloud. October 21 sees t...
Steam News · Apr 1, 2021
Last year, Control developer Remedy announced it had signed a two-project publishing deal with Epic Games, and then re-introduced its fan favourite hero Alan Wake via Control's excellent second expansion, which wove the story of both games together as part of Remedy's wider narrative universe. Was Wake being teed up to tease a full sequel to his Xbox 360 cult hit? After Epic's publishing deal was ...
Steam News · Aug 8, 2020
Remedy has said it's working on the next game in its connected universe. Alan Wake and Control are part of the Remedy Connected Universe, creative director Sam Lake said in a blog post. This week, during Sony's State of Play event, Remedy unveiled the trailer for AWE, the next expansion for Control and the first Remedy Connected Universe experience. In the trailer we see a bearded Alan Wake. Read ...
Steam News · Jan 17, 2020
Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook. Things like crowds, potions, mountains, hands. Things we barely notice while we're playing but can recall many years later because, it turns out, they're fundamental to our memory of the game. Well, now is the time to celebrate them! Today we're celebrating... Blocks! Or do I mean cubes? Don't! We had a whole argument about ...
Steam News · Oct 17, 2019
It s Thursday again, meaning its time for Epic s ongoing cycle of free games to tick over once again. This week s offerings are grimy cyberpunk horror Observer and bizarre spin-off Alan Wake s American Nightmare. That ll be that sorted for some low-lit thrills, then. As per, you ve only got seven days to grab these freebies before they slink back into the shad...
Steam News · Oct 17, 2019
Epic continues to frisbee out the free games, as backlogs around the globe grow so unwieldy they're liable to topple over and squish their owners flat. But should you be willing to risk your chances against Death itself, then, hey, why not add Observer and Alan Wake's American Nightmare to your library later today? Both games, of course, paddle in the wading pool of blood that is the horror genre ...
Steam News · Jul 1, 2019
Working with publishers led the the novelist Alan Wake to flip his lid and get chased by ghosts or summat, so Big Al must be thrilled to escape his previous publisher contract. Alan Wake developers Remedy Entertainment have announced they ve gained the publishing rights to the third-person spooker-shooters, which were previously held by Microsoft. This self-publishing seems more a happy co...
Steam News · Jul 1, 2019
UPDATE 2.30PM: Speaking to Eurogamer, Alan Wake developer Remedy has teased the possibility of a multiplatform release for its previously Microsoft-owned hero. "The only thing we want to clarify, now that Remedy owns the publishing rights, is that we could bring Alan Wake to different platforms if we so choose," a Remedy spokesperson told me this afternoon. "We have nothing to announce for now. We...
Steam News · Oct 25, 2018
While a twist happy ending might undermine a horror story (I m looking at you, Stephen King), it s a greatly appreciated thing in games right now, and today s pleasant twist: Alan Wake is back. Soundtrack fully intact and only a couple quid right now, too. Remedy s spook o-shooter was pulled from stores after its music licenses expired killed by Roy Orbison. F...
Steam News · Apr 21, 2015
Remedy followed up their spooky-ooky shooter Alan Wake with the shorter, shootier semi-sequel Alan Wake s American Nightmare in 2012. Might a proper sequel, we wondered, follow next? Well, no. However, Remedy had started prototyping an Alan Wake 2 soon after finishing the first game, and whipped up a fancy gameplay video to pitch to publishers. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet (and a Po...
