Fri, Nov 04, 2011 | 06:34 GMT
New Alan Wake to be digital affair, confirms Major Nelson
Following on from confirmation earlier it would debut at the Spike VGAs next month, Nelson’s confirmed on Twitter the next Alan Wake from Remedy will be a digital affair on Xbox Live.
The title will be “fully standalone” from the original game that released at retail last May.
Here’s the full tweet from the Major: “We can confirm that this new “Alan Wake” game will be a fully standalone experience and released on Xbox LIVE.”
Rumour of a XBL Wake title emerged in May, saying it would be called Alan Wake: Night Springs. The report was published after Remedy confirmed it was making a new game in the Wake universe, but that it wasn’t AW2.
Head of Franchise at the Finnish studio Oskari Hakkinen stayed mum on the claims, telling VG247 it was “keeping a lid” on the new game until it was ready to be announced.
That announce will happen on December 10 at the VGAs.
8 comments
#1
Anders
03/11/11, 10:24 pm
Not sure I like how that sounds. Considering the sales of the last one, it’s probably a wise decision though.
#2
fearmonkey
03/11/11, 10:40 pm
The last one sold poorly due to Red dead redemption coming out at the same time…big mistake.. I bought it at launch and it was a great game, I still need to finish the DLC though.
#3
manamana
03/11/11, 11:12 pm
Uh-oh! Sounds like a downloable Kinect title…
#4
Noodlemanny
04/11/11, 12:32 am
‘Fully standalone’… Hows that going to work? The DLC left it at a slight cliffhanger and the whole game is entirely based around Alan Wake, how are you going to make it ‘stand alone’. The titles even his fucking name.
#5
daytripper
04/11/11, 12:42 am
enjoyed the first one, some of the lighting effects were excellent.
#6
Phoenixblight
04/11/11, 12:56 am
@4
Can’t do ALan Wake’s “Killer Shadow”(General Example) where its about a story he is writing and not necessarily about him?
#7
Henry
04/11/11, 2:26 am
hm, MajorNelson didn’t mention the word “exclusively”……….
#8
The_Red
04/11/11, 6:57 am
Goddamit, I wanted a full retail sequel
Unless it is meant to prepare gamers for the next, true AW sequel, I’m out.