Alan Wake's American Nightmare Coming To The PC On May 22

The standalone expansion for Alan Wake, Alan Wake's American Nightmare looks to be coming our way! It's listed on GoG.com and on Steam and will be live on May 22. It is priced at USD$14.99 and pre order get a 10% discount. Alan Wake is now also available on GoG.com and has a cool 50% discount on both GoG and Steam. You can check out my review for Alan Wake here. Well worth it for the price it's going for at the moment.

Alan Wake Review - No Bullet Time Here

Well technically, there is some slow mo effect when you fire the flare gun... but I'm not sure if that's just my PC's frame rate taking a dive! I've been a huge fan of Remedy Entertainment since the original release of Max Payne(2001). It was a third person action game that took the world by storm as it unleashed its furious gun fights that were influenced by the John Woo style of violence with beautiful cinematography. In other words... it was the introduction of bullet time and slow mo effects in games. When I read the news that Remedy were working on Alan Wake, I was delighted at first and later horrified that it was to be an XBOX360 exclusive with Microsoft as the publisher. After multiple delays and rumours that the project had been put on hold, Alan Wake finally arrived on the XBOX360 in 2010 and two years later, here it is... on the PC... the platform it was first showcased on.

Alan Wake American Nightmare Launch Trailer - XBOX Live Arcade Downloadable Title

While the PC version of Alan Wake released on Steam yesterday(USD$34.99), Remedey will be releasing Alan Wake American Nightmare for the XBOX360 as a downloadable title next week(February 22nd). It's a standalone game that does not further the main Alan Wake storyline but acts to expand on it. Definetely not a sequel(which Remedy has been reported to have confirmed they are working on). PC release? No idea... since it is a Microsoft published title, probably might make its way to the PC much later. Check out the launch trailer below...

Alan Wake PC Gameplay Walkthrough Video - Alan Wake Looks Sharper Than Ever

IGN's Anthony Galegos and Charles Onyett gives us a sneak peak at Alan Wake on the PC. It looks awesome... maybe not as impressive looking now since it released last year and we've had a bunch of new amazing looking games. It's releasing on Steam on 17th February for us in Asia. Gameplay walkthrough after the break...

Alan Wake Releasing On February 16th For The PC

It is confirmed. The special fact that February 16th, six years ago was when Remedy first announced the game! "We've done our best to do justice to the PC version and do things the way they should be done for PC," said Remedy Chief Technical Officer, Markus Maki. He added "The PC version looks absolutely beautiful. We're bringing the game to life in a whole new way." In other news, EA announced that Alan Wake will also be on Origin. So if you don't fancy Steam, you can also buy it on Origin.

Alan Wake Hitting Steam On February - Minimum Requirements Out!

Remedy has confirmed on the official forums that the PC version of Alan Wake will be released on Steam in February(nothing more specific than that. They also posted the minimum requirements to run the game. Alan Wake for the PC will be using Steamworks which means it will NOT be a Games For Windows game. Requirements seem pretty reasonable. Remedy are trying to make the game compatible with Windows XP SP2, at the moment there are a few bugs that need sorting out for the game to run on Win XP. Minimum requirements after the jump...

UPDATE Alan Wake Coming To The PC - Confirmed!

UPDATE: Remedy Entertainment confirmed that Alan Wake is indeed making its way onto Steam.
It'll be out first quarter/early 2012 and will include both DLC's The Signal and The Writer. Awesome! I wish it would come out sooner though.

Rumours are abound... Remedy's post Max Payne XBOX360 exclusive, Alan Wake, is highly like to be making its way to the PC. Those determined bunch over at NEOGaf have spotted language specific files for Alan Wake on Steam. Remedy hasn't released any statement about a PC release but if these NEOGaf guys sniff files on their network, it is highly it will be coming to Steam. Let's wait and see exactly when we get a release date. It's been a long time... and to think that Alan Wake was originally used to demo Intel's next gen quad core CPU's.

Alan Wake ‘Up In Airs’ For The PC

 

Since the E3 demo was shown, nothing was said about the PC version of Alan Wake. People assumed it was still in development considering the fact that Remedy Entertainment demoed the tech behind the game many years back for the PC. Brightfalls.net found out that:

 

Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Remedy haven’t spoken about the PC version of the game yet and the release of a PC version is up in the air. When asked about it Remedy replied saying that both Microsoft and them are only speaking about the Xbox 360 version at the moment.

 

This is based off some info released in a Finnish magazine ‘Pelaaja’.It looks like the Spring 2010 release will be only for the XBOX360. I wonder if Remedy will look at making this a Windows 7 DirectX 11 title. Hmmmm