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Alan Wake’s the big new entry in this week’s UK charts, but World Cup 2010: South Africa managed to hold on to the number one spot.

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Five long years after it was announced at E3, Remedy finally releases Alan Wake tomorrow in the UK and Europe for Xbox 360, with a US launch on Tuesday.

Anyone not buying it are obviously nuts for not doing so: game looks set to properly pump up the volume, according to reviews that came out for the thriller last week.

On Monday, we asked you for your questions for the Finnish developer, and you came in with an impressive set of them.

The best answer will get an Alan Wake Super Elite 360 bundle, with runner-up prizes consisting of Collector’s Editions of the game. We’ll let you know of the winners soon.

For now, get your answers from Remedy writer Mikki Rautalahti below.

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Microsoft just greenlit an Alan Wake community interview for us. Ask developer Remedy questions and you could win hardware and pretty discs.

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As opposed to North Korea. Pretty sure there aren’t any Xbox 360′s in North Korea. If there are, they’re probably used as nuclear missile components, or something. Or as tables.

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Heavy Rain’s animation could have been slicker, the founder of the company responsible for Alan Wake’s facial motion capture has told VG247.

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The BBFC’s put a 15 rating on Remedy thriller Alan Wake in the UK.

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As Remedy’s Alan Wake thunders towards its May launch, Microsoft has put out five new screens of the thriller. Don’t worry, torch fans: you’re well catered for.

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Remedy’s confirmed that you’re going to get additional Alan Wake content in 2010, following the game’s May release.

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Microsoft just pitched a new Alan Wake trailer, showing off a ton of pretty misery, torch-play and angry farming equipment. Get it after the break.

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There can be few unreleased games as enigmatic as Alan Wake. The Remedy thriller, announced in 2005 for both 360 and PC, has gone in a matter of weeks from being almost entirely under wraps to a 360 exclusive, a May release, an episodic adventure in an untraditional gaming sense, a project inspired by Twin Peaks and as having “seasons” with planned DLC. It’s all go for Alan and the gang.

Following a blocked writer on a mission to save his wife in the Pacific Northwest, the game is finally gearing up for what looks to be a sizeable launch for Microsoft. We were lucky enough to grab some time in London this week with Oskari Häkkinen, head of franchise at Remedy. Hit the link.

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X10, eh? Some websites played Alan Wake in San Francisco last night, then typed as fast as their little pinkines would allows to get impressions on the internet. Hit the link for the lot.

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Microsoft games boss Aaron Greenberg’s confirmed both Crackdown 2 and Alan Wake for a first-half 2010 release, speaking in the latest Major Nelson podcast.

“Starting in January we have like a triple A exclusive title pretty much every month for the first half of the year. You’ve got Mass Effect 2, you’ve got Splinter Cell, you’ve got Alan Wake, you’ve got Crackdown 2,” said the exec.

“You’ve got things like Fable 3 and Halo: Reach and coming later that year. Those are just the exclusives.”

Listen at about 31.50. He added: “2010 will be a bigger year that 2009: no doubt.”

No specific dates have been given for Remedy’s opus or Ruffian’s inaugural, but you probably wouldn’t be too stupid to be thinking “May-ish”.

Just saying.

1UP’s posted up the first of a week’s worth of Alan Wake content updates, the first preview focusing on the thriller’s light and dark mechanics.

The Remedy adventure, six years in the making, is looking at a spring release for 360.

Get some new shots here, including this one of Alan going toe-to-toe with a tractor.

Richard Lemarchand, game designer for Naughty Dog, has been confirmed as a speaker at the DICE Summit which takes place February 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Manveer Heir, lead designer at Raven Software, Zynga Games chief creative officer Brian Reynolds, and Mike Yuen, Zeebo senior VP of content and services, are also confirmed.

Other speakers are Steve Perlman, founder, president and CEO of OnLive, and Matias Myllrinne, president of Remedy Entertainment.

More over on GI.biz.

Someone’s posted up an 18-minute video of an Alan Wake demo on GT, filmed last week in Russia. Watch it after the break.

There’s tons of gameplay in there, and a good amount on the story.

Spoilers: Alan, a bestselling writer, goes off into the middle of nowhere to get his mojo back. His better half gets kidnapped and he ends up talking to a man in a puffer jacket in a log cabin. From then on, all manner of wacky shit happens. Spoilers over.

The Remedy 360 exclusive has no date. But if people are seeing this much of it, it really can’t be that far away.

Can it? Thanks, Blerk.

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Microsoft’s dropped new Alan Wake shots at TGS, this lot showing the eponymous hero leaping around in front of a helicopter. Get them from Destructoid.

You go, Alan. Can we have a release date now, please?

Remedy boss Markus Mäki has told VG247 that there’s no timeframe in place for the release of news on Alan Wake’s PC version.

“I don’t unfortunately have a schedule for updates at this point,” the developer said via email.

His comment comes after he yesterday posted on the Alan Wake message boards to say that he “will be making comments in regards to the PC at a later in time.”

Mäki said in the same post that all of Remedy’s efforts are currently focused on the game’s 360 version.

Alan Wake as originally announced as a 360 and PC game in 2005.

Remedy poster “Markus” – presumably Markus Mäki – has said on the Alan Wake message boards that news related to the game’s PC version is on the way.

“I’m a PC gamer at heart (have a Core i7, Radeon 4890, 5.1 audio setup at home) so I do appreciate your concerns,” he said.

“Unfortunately all I can say at this point is that we’re focusing all our efforts on the 360 version and will be making comments in regards to the PC at a later in time.”

You didn’t know there was a PC version? Alan Wake was originally announced for PC and “next generation consoles” in 2005. In May 2006, that switched to, “Format TBD for Microsoft Windows Vista and DVD for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system.”

We’re just checking to make sure that’s Markus Mäki now. Doesn’t sound very promising for the PC crowd though, does it?

Remedy’s announced a partnership with motion-capture group Imagination Studios to help on the infinite development of Alan Wake.

Said Remedy’s Lasse Seppänen: “It is with great pleasure that we can recommend Imagination Studios. Remedy has been extremely pleased with their co-operation and devotion in bringing the characters of Alan Wake to life.”

E3, please. More on Develop.

Remedy’s dropped two more text passages from Alan Wake, a move likely to add more weight to gossip of a GDC reveal.

A first snippet was released on Friday night.

Alan’s an author. So he writes. This is what he writes. Poor old Alan.

Rusty’s screams were still ringing in my ears. The tree stump the grove got its name from looked like a severed leg of a monsterous bird. I prayed that the gun would make a difference. Every time I moved the flashlight, I was afraid of the horrors it might reveal. Suddenly a ragged arrow gloved in the light. I followed it.

- Alan Wake

Here’s the second one.

I taped a note on the door (I had forgotten so many things already).
and made its way inside, through a nostril or an ear. I barricaded the door of the cabin. I kept the lights on at all times. I was convinced that I would wake up changed, darkness having seeped in through the cracks in the floor, crawled up to my bed. I became increasingly afraid to go to sleep.

-Alan Wake

Got that? Goodo. Show it, please. Thanks, IGN.