The upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, will have more action than the original 2010 game, and will include a new co-op multiplayer mode.

The mode is called "Fight 'til Dawn", and will basically be a Horde mode in which players cooperatively combat waves of dark creatures. According to Remedy vice president Aki Järvilehto, "One of the things about Alan Wake is that people loved the story, the setting and the theme but people wanted more in-your-face action. People wanted more variation, different types of enemies and different types of weapon."

Alan Wake's American Nightmare was finally officially revealed at the Spike TV Videogame Awards last Saturday.

Remedy Games is gearing up to launch Alan Wake on Steam this February with a hefty FAQ session on its forum. Steam's Alan Wake will not be available on Mac, won't use Games for Windows Live and won't have a demo. It will use Steamworks, support keyboard and Xbox 360 controller input, and will include The Signal and The Writer DLC packs with the game.

Alan Wake on Steam can support stereoscopic 3D through NVISION 3D, although it is performance-intensive, Remedy warns. For normal (see: "unfancy") gameplay, the expected system requirements are fairly standard, as you can see -- no flashlight required -

luckily it's on Steam, so can wait for discounts

Nordic Games today announced a publishing deal for the boxed PC version of Remedy’s upcoming Action Thriller Alan Wake. The Signal and The Writer DLC from the Xbox 360 version will be included as a bonus for the boxed PC release.

"It goes without saying that we are very happy and proud to work together with some of the greatest talents and artists of the games industry", commented Lars Wingefors, CEO of Nordic Games. "We are really looking forward to the PC version of Alan Wake, especially as we are talking about a fantastic PC adaptation thereof, rather than a mere porting of the code. We will talk about this in more detail in the upcoming weeks".

"We're very excited that we have the opportunity to bring the PC version of Alan Wake to retail and the fans out there." said Matias Myllyrinne, CEO of Remedy Entertainment. "Working closely with Nordic Games we can deliver an amazing experience to PC gamers."

The PC version of Alan Wake doesn't have a release date yet, but the firm did tell us that this would be revealed shortly.

Electronic Arts' digital distribution service, Origin, has signed seven more publishers to distribute their games on it, including Remedy Entertainment, which means Alan Wake will be available soon.

The six other publishers include Iceberg Interactive, Strategy First, Macro Games, Selectsoft, and Legendo Entertainment.

Let us know if you've purchased any PC games from Origin aside from Battlefield 3 or Star Wars: The Old Republic

Remedy revealed today the release date of the highly anticipated PC port of Alan Wake.

PC gamers who uses Steam will be able to purchase the game on February 16. Other digital retailers will follow afterwards but for the boxed version, it’s coming. We just don’t know when.

Alan Wake for the PC will retail for $29.99 and will include the game and the DLCs. There will also be a Limited Collector’s Edition that will retail for $34.99.

Now, what’s so special about the PC version of Alan Wake you ask? Here are the enhancements that Remedy released:

– Experience Alan Wake’s Pacific Northwest in higher resolutions and higher fidelity than ever before.
– Refined and fully configurable mouse and keyboard support (or if you prefer to play with the Microsoft gamepad connected to your PC, you can do that too!)
– A wide selection of customizable graphics settings and support for 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios.
– Multithreaded engine that takes advantage of quad core CPUs.
– Additional options our fans have sought after, such as field of view adjustment as well as “hide HUD”.
– Works with AMD Eyefinity 3D 3-screen mode.
– Works with NVIDIA NVISION2 Stereoscopic 3D.

Are you getting Alan Wake on release day?

Nope, gonna get ME 3 only. Need to pay few bill and Redang holiday on next mth as well.

Well, since its SP only, so i wont be rushing to get it and still got alot of backlog games i nvr play as well. 

The PC version of Alan Wake will be released next week on the 16th February, but the retail version will be released a few weeks later on the 2nd March. Remedy has revealed the contents of both the Standard and Collector's Editions of the game. Both versions will feature bonus content, with two discs in the regular edition and three in the Collector's.

The Standard Edition contains:

* Premium packaging:
* Disc 1: Main game plus both DLCs - "The Signal" and "The Writer".
* Disc 2: OST of the game including 13 Tracks (Audio-CD).
* 6 Post cards with different pictures/scenes from the game.
* Manual.
* 1 poster (printed on both sides).
* 7 stickers with different pictures/scenes/characters from the game.

The Collector's Edition contains:

* Premium packaging.
* Disc 1: Main game plus both DLCs "The Signal" and "The Writer"; Additionally, the main game of the LCE contains audio commentary and background information by Remedy, which can be switched on in addition to the game.
* Disc 2: OST of the game including 13 Tracks (Audio-CD).
* Disc 3: Bonus Disc: History of Remedy, Making of "Alan Wake", Making of a thriller, music videos by the "Old gods of Asgard", several trailers to the game, Storyboard (witch concept art) as a movie clip.
* The "Alan Wake Files"; 144 pages with evidence on the mysterious incidents around Alan Wake and Bright Falls, compiled by the fictitious author Clay Steward (same print format as the game manual).
* 6 Post cards with different pictures/scenes from the game.
* Manual.
* 1 poster (printed on both sides).
* 7 stickers with different pictures/scenes/characters from the game.

As for the digital version, it will be released initially on Steam, and then other digital distribution channels sometime later.

Alan Wake has more adventures to come as Remedy Entertainment, creator of Max Payne, has said there's already motion on the next. Focusing on PC right now.

Remedy are "crowd pleasers," said CEO Matias Myllyrinne. Smaller digital chunks of game let them react to "people's desires and wishes" faster. It's "too early to talk" about the next step.

PC gamers are set to receive Alan Wake after a good long no-show as it debuted on Xbox 360. Now XBLA is due Alan Wake's American Nightmare, a digital add-on exploring more horror.

"We're crowd pleasers, we'll do what the audience wants, 'cause usually that's the good business move as well," said Remedy boss Matias Myllyrinne. Bringing Alan Wake to PC was certainly a move in that direction.

What's next for Alan Wake? "Hopefully, we'll have one or two surprises."

"I don't know, I'm loving the digital side and we'll see how that evolves, but just being able to give people quick access to bite-size chunks of gaming is maybe more fun than working for years and years - taking the phone offline and closing the shutters - at least, this way, you're able to react much more quickly to people's desires and wishes."

"We'll certainly continue with Wake. Right now we're focusing on getting the PC out next week, then getting American Nightmare out. And it's too early to talk about what our next move is, but we've obviously put things into motion."

Alan Wake releases on PC February 16th via Steam, March 2nd via retail. Alan Wake's American Nightmare releases on Xbox 360 February 22nd as part of the Xbox LIVE House Party promotion.