Tricky music license points for Alan Wake have meant that Remedy’s shadowy third-person shooter has been unavailable for digital buy for a while, however these darkish days are over – simply in time for Halloween. Remedy and Microsoft have navigated these licensing waters and gotten the game restored to a wide range of digital storefronts, together with Steam. Better but, it’s filth low-cost in celebration.
You can now as soon as once more seize Alan Wake on Steam, and till November 1 it’s obtainable for the low, low worth of $3.00 / £2.28 / €2.50. That’s an 80% low cost off the now-standard $14.99 regular worth, and it’s an ideal approach to get some low-cost Halloween thrills.
If Steam’s not your velocity, you may also seize DRM-free copies at GOG and the Humble Store, and all these variations can be found at equally steep reductions. On Twitter, developer Remedy presents up “big thanks to our partner and Alan Wake’s publishers Microsoft who were able to renegotiate the rights to the licensed music in Alan Wake, so that the game can be sold again.”
Alan Wake was delisted from digital shops final 12 months after a handful of music rights expired. Owners of the game nonetheless had entry to it, however in the event you wished to search out out what the fuss is about your solely possibility was the semi-sequel, semi-spin-off that was Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. (Incidentally, that’s additionally on sale proper now.)
Remedy’s given the thumbs-up to an Alan Wake TV present, and possibly Alan Wake 2 isn’t so distant a dream with right this moment’s information in thoughts. The Control launch date will mark the following main game from Remedy, however it appears previous Alan Wake is neither gone nor forgotten – maybe we’ll ultimately see these additional adventures.
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