Alan Wake

Alan Wake Won’t Be Shining A Torch On The PC

Once upon a time, Alan Wake was a game coming for both the PC and Xbox 360. Then mention of the PC version began to simply disappear, culminating in the final announcement yesterday that the game’s for the 360 only. A statement from Microsoft reads: Some games are more suited for the intimacy of the…

Box Art Shootout: Halo: Reach, Crackdown 2 & Alan Wake

Lots of Microsoft news today, and where there’s news, there’s box art. Here’s what you’ll see staring back at you when you go into a game store and spy Halo: Reach, Crackdown 2 and Alan Wake. You’ll notice two Alan Wake boxes; the normal one, and the giant fake book one. The collector’s edition features…

More Alan Wake Footage, More Flashlights In The Dark

Microsoft and Remedy released a new trailer for Alan Wake today. I love how he gets hit by a flying mine cart and just shrugs it off.

Alan Wake Slated For May 18, Looks Good

The long-in-development Alan Wake, one of the most enigmatic titles in development for the Xbox 360, will finally be released on May 18, Microsoft announced today. Earlier this week, the game’s developers gave Kotaku a live demonstration. It was impressive. Alan Wake has been in development by Max Payne makers Remedy Entertainment for more than…

2010’s Most Anticipated Games in Video

The season opener for GametrailerTV aired last night with your’s truly and a clutch of other "industry experts" talking about their most anticipated games for this year. On my list: Red Dead Redemption, because I’m a huge western shooter fan and this game looks like it might push a much-deserved genre into the mainstream spotlight.…

Alan Wake & The Case Of The Murderous Midnight Tractor

Darkness, a man in a jacket, flashlights…yup, Alan Wake is back with some new screenshots, to get you excited for a game that still feels like it’s never going to actually come out.

Shine A Light On This Alan Wake Gameplay Clip

Finnish game developer Remedy Entertainment, best known for its Max Payne video games, has released a gameplay clip of its upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive, the thriller Alan Wake. The clip is short — a mere 33 seconds. However, the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip shows a little bit how the flashlight will be used in the game, the…

Yes, Alan Wake Is Getting DLC

…like pretty much every other game these days! It’s been known for some time that years-in-development psychological thriller Alan Wake will have an episodic nature. That nature will continue after the game is out. The aim, it seems, is to created gaming’s version of something like the television drama Lost. At CES, Microsoft has confirmed…

Some New Alan Wake Footage

1UP have some new footage of Alan Wake. Lovers of torchlight, darkness and flying carving knives, this one’s for you! Alan Wake Exclusive Explosive Action Trailer [1UP]

New Alan Wake Screenshot Is Comfortable Following A Well-Worn Path

Remedy Entertainment released a single screenshot for Alan Wake today. Just the one. Here it is. Alan, torch, darkness…yeah, it’s much like everything else we’ve seen from a game that will see you spending most of your time in the dark, with a torch in your hand. Love the Twitter advertisement, too. It was only…

Alan Wake Gameplay Comes To In All-New Video

Miss last night’s episode of GameTrailers TV? Then you also missed a bevy of gameplay videos of Remedy’s Alan Wake shouting "Alice!" while Alice shouts "Alan!" followed by Barry shouting "Al! Al!" Oh and there’s so much more. Some of this footage you may have gotten a sneak peek at during this year’s E3, but…

Alan Wake Devs Might Withhold Ending from Preview Copies

Alan Wake‘s developers are concerned enough about spoilers getting out that they’ll talk with Microsoft about keeping the game’s ending out of copies sent to the press in advance of its release. G4TV quotes the Remedy Entertainment managing director Matias Myllrinne as saying the studio is “insanely careful” about how much of the story it’ll…

Alan Wake on the Run, in the Dark

These five screens depict the innate agility of a bestselling author as one Alan Wake dodges helicopters, crashing cars and snipers up a forest ranger tower. This reminds me, I need to finish up that book proposal …

Alan Wake Impressions: Bad Time To Lose The Flashlight

What we thought we knew of the ages-in-development Xbox 360 game Alan Wake is that it stars a writer who faces psychological and physical horrors in a town and forest in the Pacific Northwest, with light as his scarce ally. I learned in Tokyo, however, that sometimes Alan won’t have his flashlight or a gun.…

Lots And Lots Of Alan Wake Gameplay Footage

This starts off as a developer diary. Don’t let that bother you. For starters, the clip is full of in-game action. And secondly…their Scandinavian accents are just so soothing.

PC Version Of Alan Wake Is Up To Microsoft

Alan Wake is coming to Xbox 360, that we know. But will it also be coming to the PC? Maybe. Just maybe. But if it does, that’s a decision to be made by Microsoft, not developers Remedy. Alan Wake fansite BrightFalls claims to have received a statement from the developers, which reads: Thank you for…

Alan Wake Developer Will Comment On PC Version “Later”

People have been waiting for Alan Wake for a long, long time. Publisher Microsoft gave the game a vague “Spring 2010” release for the Xbox 360 version. That’s nice, but what about the PC version? According to Alan Wake developer Remedy, “”We’re focusing all our efforts on the 360 version and will be making comments…

Kotaku’s Best of E3 Awards: Hair Dragons, CatBats and Light Graffiti

This year’s annual E3 Expo gathering of video game developers, publishers and players brought with it an unprecedented look at the games we’ll be playing over this year and next as well as the technology that will shape the games to come. Here are the staff of Kotaku’s picks for the best of 2009’s Electronic…

Alan Wake Preview: Shoot Twice

Since its announcement at E3 in 2005, Alan Wake has been a gaming Sasquatch. But we had a sighting this week, grabbed a controller and played it. Alan Wake has been touted as a more grown-up suspense game, a subtler and more sophisticated take on a genre more commonly infested with zombie nurses and chainsaw…

The Clips of E3: Day One

Between trailers, teasers and gameplay footage, there’s almost enough movie time here to warrant an entire evening’s worth of popcorn. My personal favorite of the day’s clips is the LEGO Harry Potter teaser — but I’m a sucker for all things LEGO-related. A close second is the Ayane gameplay footage, followed by the Old Republic…