Two days ago, community manager of Alan Wake forums received a package from Alan Wake developer Remedy. Remedy has been giving all kind of presents for the moderators and the staff of the forum.

This time it was a message from Alan Wake himself:

"The amount of pages keeps growing each night. There are also new edits on the old pages. They keep getting more aggressive. The story is rewriting itself. The protagonist is now my namesake, and his wife is called Alice. The most worrying aspect: the genre seems to be shifting. It's turning into a horror story. I can no longer be certain whether the hero can succeed or even survive. Apart for jumbled fragments of bad dreams and an oppressive feeling, I can remember nothing of the process when I wake up. But this morning, a breakthrough! When I came to my senses, I could smell her perfume on my shirt. I am close. I know it. I must push on.

- Alan Wake "

Many people thought that this message didn't give anything new.

However, Alan Wake forum member bstarter29 thinks different:
"I think a lot of it is in referrence to Remedy's development cycle with AW."

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One thing is certain. Alan Wake the horror novelist leans heavily on his copy editor. On Remedy's official Alan Wake forums, the community manager posted some text taken from the long-awaited horror game. The post is a positive sign that Alan Wake is still on the way.
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VG247: Remedy Games has told videogaming247 that the supposed leaked Alan Wake footage is "not real."

"No Mike, this is not real!" said senior representative to VG247 just now.
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Gamezine: Alan Wake is that really you? You're looking impressive, but different.

Could this really be Alan Wake? In this viral advertising on youtube, user puffdaddysucks claims that this is leaked footage from the PC and Xbox 360 title Alan Wake, to be shown at GDC '09.
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VG247: Remedy Games got in touch this morning to tell videogaming247 that with regards to Alan Wake, we can expect to see something "interesting" but only "when the time is right."
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From the PlanetXbox360.com Article:

"Yesterday we posted a story about Remedy Games and the progress they are making with the development of Alan Wake; today we heard back from the team over there and they are officially "working extremely hard on Alan Wake", etc. The recent attention is thanks to a picture taken of one staff member's office which showed Alan Wake being played on a debug Xbox 360 unit. In our correspondence we also learned that the spotted Alan Wake play was from a "relatively recent build". Stay tuned right here at PlanetXbox360.com for more information on Alan Wake as it comes in, for now check out the full e-mail below as well as a link to the original story:"

What are your thoughts on this game, is anyone still excited for it? Has it been too long since we first heard about it at E3 a couple years ago?
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Does Alan Wake have a release date? Has the new Indy game been canned? Is Bioshock coming to the Mac?
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Alanwake.com writes

"What platform was used?

The PC. The shots were taken in 1080p resolution (using 4xMSAA) and scaled down to 720p for web release. We are only releasing a few shots, and we wanted these to be usable for print purposes as well, therefore the higher resolution. The game looks very good on Xbox360 too but only runs in 720p.

There's cool Depth-of-Field in the Cabin shot, is this real time?

That shot is from the Cinematic Trailer. We intend to use DOF effects to enhance storytelling in the in-game cinematics, but (at least at the moment) it is done as an offline post process. Otherwise that image is fully rendered by the game engine."
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Remedy has finally updated their Alan Wake - Homepage including new screenshots and the brandnew trailer that has just been shown in some movie theatres before the premiere of the Max Payne movie.
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The site of Finnish mag Pelaaja is about to publish a 50-minute podcast which includes an in-depth chat with Remedy lead writer Sami Järvi on the current state of Alan Wake, why it's taking so long and a proper confirmation that a new trailer is to be shown in Finland on October 15.

VG247's running details of the podcast, in English.
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A Finnish source has told VG247 this morning that a Pelaaja story claiming a new Alan Wake trailer is to be shown at the Finnish premiere of the Max Payne movie is "100 percent true".
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From pelaajalehti.com:
"We are proud (and in flames!) to inform you that after two years of silence, Remedy is about to present a new trailer of it's Alan Wake game."

"The trailer will be shown in the premiere weekend of the Max Payne movie in Finnkino cinemas. Max Payne hits the theaters on October 17th and the trailer will be first shown in the pre-premiere on October 15th."

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Kotaku reports: "Alan Wake! We miss you! You showed your face, got us all excited, then buggered off and haven't been seen for months. That kind of business normally leads to speculation that a game's been canned. Speculation Remedy want to dispel immediately, with a post on the game's official boards saying:"
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Recently an old promotion resurfaced and was posted on major gaming sites and blogs and caused quite a stir due to a comment in the promotion which many people confused as confirmation that Alan Wake will be shown at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show.

Markus Maki, Director of Development at Remedy Games, squashed this rumour:

"The Microsoft Vista promotion referring to TGS took place in 2007, and is old news - we've had the winner over for taking the pictures already.

Sorry for the confusion and possible disappointment, but this was not an annoucement that Wake would be shown at TGS 2008. Remedy's team is just getting back from a bit of holiday and we haven't had time to chat with Microsoft on upcoming shows/showings yet."
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An official Microsoft promotion page for Windows Vista has revealed that Alan Wake will be present at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show.

"To celebrate the launch of their new operating system, Microsoft is offering one lucky winner the opportunity to be digitally made-over and inserted (virtually of course) into a blockbuster game! Simply watch the Vista gaming demo and you could appear in the latest Remedy blockbuster, Alan Wake, a psychological action thriller with an intense cinematic look. Let the games begin with a trip to Finland to be digitally mastered into Alan Wake's world, then jet off to Tokyo to the 2008 Tokyo Games Show to be on the scene and on the screen!"
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"Despite massive rumors and leaks, there was no mention, appearance, or anything that was remotely Bungie at Microsoft's E3 2008 Press Conference. No Halo: Chronicles, no Halo "Blue", no Bungie. While Final Fantasy XII made a huge splash, seeing a Microsoft Press Conference go by without any mention of Halo is odd. Will we see anything from Bungie in the upcoming keynotes? Don't bet money on it though, they would have announced it already."
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Alan Wake has been "coming soon" to the Xbox 360 since before the console even launched. Billed as a "psychological action thriller" which finds its roots in dramatic television, the story follows the titular horror novelist as he copes with the sudden disappearance of his fiancée. Plagued by writer's block and an inability to sleep, Wake sequesters himself at a clinic in the small town of Bright Falls, Washington. Terrifying nightmares give the writer fresh inspiration, but things take a turn for the sinister when the horrific visions begin to manifest in his waking life.
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Deacon Blade writes,

"I can't say enough about my anticipation for Alan Wake despite not having much of anything new on it since X06. (yes the one from 2006) I contacted Remedy Entertainment to try to dig up something new on the title. The word I received was that the game was still kicking strong.

'Right now we are fully focused on development and not ready to talk more about Alan Wake. We're doing well and the game is looking awesome, but it is time to labor away and to keep our nose to the grind. The game has a lot of potential and it deserves to be crafted into all it can be. We are driven by our own quality standard not a timeline. Would love to talk more when we pop our heads above the surface next time.' - Remedy Entertainment PR."
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There's a solid line-up of first-party Xbox 360 titles on show at Microsoft's spring media summit, but one notable no-show is Ensemble's Halo Wars, which was originally due to be shown at the San Francisco event.

So where is it? CVG asked Microsoft Game Studios boss Shane Kim: "We're not showing Halo Wars here today because we wanted to focus on these titles," he said. "When we show titles we want to show them when they are ready. We've learned that from a few games we showed too early, like Too Human."

"The same goes for Alan Wake," he added. "We're managing that very carefully with Remedy."
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A Microsoft Spokesperson has told TVG that Microsoft's Gamers Day (soon to start in San Francisco) is showcasing all of the company's major game releases for 2008, strongly suggesting that triple A title Alan Wake (which isn't on show at the event) will quietly slip into the 2009 release window that gamers all probably knew but hoped wouldn't happen.

Billed as a free roaming, psychological thriller that takes place across six square miles of the town Bright Falls, Alan Wake was originally announced at E3 2005 and subsequently revealed as an Xbox 360/PC exclusive at E3 2006. Since then everything has gone extremely quiet, not even a new trailer in the subsequent years.
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