Microsoft has dashed last hopes for fans of Alan Wake's release this year, confirming it's not a 2007 title.
Alan Wake is a title that the company wants to nurture and ensure it's "really ready" when it's ushered back into the limelight, managing director of Microsoft Game Studios, Shane Kim, told Game Informer.
However, Kim explained that it's a game Microsoft wouldn't be talking about if it were "way out in the future." So 2008 then? Could be.
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Even though this teaser doesn't give too much away about "Bright Falls" other than its live-action-ness (which also looks great, by the way), its premiere on Xbox Live should be enough for those anticipating Alan Wake's release next month.
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The new music video for "War," one of the songs featured on Alan Wake's soundtrack, is basically a mini-movie adaptation of the game. Unless you count the evil blurry clown, of course...

The Inception trailer is a gold-wrapped gift to the internet's tradition of mash-ups. The trailer's music alone lathers a suffocatingly-thick coat of drama on anything it touches, as evidenced by this way-better-than-the-actual-trailer Alan Wake trailer. And beneath that, Psychonauts gets a full Inception trailer work up - the result is phenomenal, and a little disturbing...

We’ve already told you why the first Alan Wake DLC, “The Signal,” set a dangerous precedent. But if there’s anything our new favorite tortured author is used to, it’s danger...

Microsoft frontman Major Nelson has let loose with details on the Xbox 360's upcoming Holiday Bundle, filling his blog with visions of tormented authors, racing games and big hard drives...
Looks like the week before Halloween is becoming a week for scary
sales, with multiple price cuts at retailers happening, including a worthwhile
Amazon sale.
Now Microsoft is joining in on the chilling price drops with its Shocktober promotion,
which this week includes multiple price cuts on some of the best spooky content
on Xbox Live. Games like Dead Rising and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are
just some of this week’s deals...
Remedy
has urged fans not judge its upcoming Alan Wake sequel until they
know more about the title. Engaging in a forum discussion with
players worried the XBLA title wouldn't offer the AAA experience
associated with the Alan Wake brand after last year's
eagerly-anticipated debut, the developer cautioned fans not to assume
too much...
As promised last week, the first image from the upcoming downloadable Alan Wake
game, rumored to be called Alan Wake's Night Springs, has been
revealed. While we typically can't tell all that much from a single
image, this one actually gives us a good amount of material to speculate
about...