Alan Wake

For the last five years, the small Finnish game studio Remedy has weathered a stormy economy, kept its studio small against the trendy tide of high production costs, and has somehow kept Microsoft at bay from canning its project after a half decade of tinkering. Come May 18, Alan Wake will finally have its day in the sun. Unlike so many games that lose their steam and tech edge after a five-year development cycle (witness Peter Molyneux's » Read Full Alan Wake preview

Alan Wake is the man who would be (Stephen) King: a horror writer living out nightmares in a sleepy white-picket-fence town. After the disappearance of his fiancé, Alan retires to Bright Falls hoping to get over his writers block. No such luck: his nightmares follow him there. So far, so Silent » Read Full Alan Wake preview

Its almost as if the Xbox 360 is showing off. Winking its little ring of light at you. Exploding some particle effect fireworks right in your face just because it can. Were talking about dynamic lighting and ambiance, and it would be nothing more than visual showboating if it werent for developers like Starbreeze, who see the huge possibilities in real-time changeable atmospheres and have utilized it in The Darkness, a title that would have been largely impossible on the previous generations » Read Full Alan Wake preview

You'll never be in control of Alan Wake's beautiful, expansive world. You won't bestride its mountains with a rocket launcher, knowing you can blow away its bad guys. In fact, you won't be seeking confrontation at all because you're not even sure how your enemies can be killed... Alan's a writer. His girlfriend disappeared, eerily reflecting the events of his bestseller. He develops insomnia. He goes to a private sleep clinic in remote Bright Falls, set in mountainous Washington State. Finding » Read Full Alan Wake preview

Alan Wake has lost everything. His fiance, his muse, his work ... and now, his sanity. Unfortunately ... you're Alan Wake. Remedy, the creators of Max Payne, get back to their old chops; exploring an embattled, anguished protagonist and the blurred line between reality and insanity in the upcoming action thriller, Alan Wake. They've traded in the dual machine guns for a flashlight and over-the-top melodrama for haunting surface tension. Taking cues from David Lynch movies, this psychological » Read Full Alan Wake preview