In his 2006 expository composition guidebook On Writing Well, William Zinsser writes, "Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost." Prolific authors know this truth by experience, with piles of cut sentences, rewritten scenes, and forsaken adverbs lying like so many bodies under the baseboards of a backspace key.
Protagonist Alan Wake's editorial body count in the downloadable American Nightmare is a comparable graveyard of stricken concepts and dispatched lumberjacks. It smacks as loudly of authorial allegory as the 2010 Alan Wake retail release and its DLC (The Signal and The Writer). To hear the conflicted Wake tell his story, the struggle again falls between light and darkness.
Welcome back Link Cable Gaming fans, by far one of my favourite surprises of the Game Awards was the surprise announcement of Alan Wake 2. Alan Wake developed by Remedy Entertainment, and released in May 2010 on the Xbox 360, Alan Wake 2 will finally be brought back. While we were treated just this year to the surprise Alan Wake Remastered earlier in October 2021, or Alan Wake’s American Nightmare in February 2012, fans never got a true sequel. What will the future of the Alan Wake franchise look like?
Perfect! a sequel that will remind me of the smell of mildew and damp coffee grounds with a side of deadly premonition.
Where else would the franchise go? Seems like a sure thing. American Nightmare should be in the remake though.
Epic Games Store is giving away two free games this week. Alan Wake’s American Nightmare and Observer are free until October 24. Once you claim them, you get to keep them.
Epic Games has announced that Surviving Mars is currently free on its store. As such, PC gamers can acquire their free copy today, and until October 17th, by visiting its Epic Games Store page.