Last month, Alan Wake was extensively demonstrated at Microsoft’s media briefing during the Electronic Entertainment Expo. However, the fact the game was shown off during a section of the presentation reserved for Xbox 360 exclusives raised a variety of questions. Had the previously announced, Vista-only PC edition of the Remedy-developed game been canceled? Or was it misplaced in the Xbox 360 exclusive section like Metal Gear Solid Rising, which Konami later revealed is also coming to the PlayStation 3 and PC?

The status of the PC edition of Alan Wake remains shrouded in mystery.

Now, it turns out both options are partially correct. This week, Remedy confirmed to GameSpot that, as had been hinted at, the Xbox 360 version of Alan Wake is its sole focus. “It is accurate that we are currently working exclusively on the Xbox 360 version of Alan Wake,” a rep for the suburban Helsinki, Finland-based studio said. “It’s safe to say that at least a simultaneous launch with the Xbox version will not happen at this late stage.”

However, when it came to the status of the PC edition of the game, Remedy was much vaguer in its response. “PC plans are currently open,” a rep said. “Remedy has a deep heritage in PC gaming and would love to see a PC version available to its PC followers. Ultimately, however, this decision lies with our publisher [Microsoft Game Studios].” Requests for comment sent to Microsoft Game Studios had not been returned as of press time, leaving Alan Wake followers in the same place as the horror game’s flashlight-wielding hero–in the dark.

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"Other than [the Xbox 360 version] the plans are up in the air and open," lead writer Sam Lake told Edge. When asked if the game was still coming to PC, he said that "once we’re done with the 360 version we’ll evaluate the situation and see what makes sense."
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Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake has taken on a quasi-mythical reputation, due as much to the shroud of mystery Microsoft has cloaked the game in as anything its developer has done. With Alan Wake first announced for the Xbox 360 and PC in 2005, Microsoft kept the game largely under lock and key until just last month, when Remedy trotted it out as a centerpiece to the publisher’s Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference.

Alan Wake may, or may not, be leaving the forest some time soon-ish.

As part of its E3 showing, Microsoft said that Alan Wake is expected to make its long-anticipated debut in spring 2010. And while the Finnish studio appears to be entering the final stretch with the Xbox 360 edition of the game–relatively speaking, of course–the PC edition may be in for yet more indeterminate lag.

In a post to Alan Wake’s official message boards this week, Remedy development director Markus Maki stated that the studio is completely focused on the Xbox 360 edition of the game, to the apparent detriment of the PC version.

“I’m a PC gamer at heart (have a Core i7, Radeon 4890, 5.1 audio setup at home) so I do appreciate your concerns,” Maki stated. “Unfortunately all I can say at this point is that we’re focusing all our efforts on the 360 version and will be making comments in regards to the PC at a later in time.”

For more on Remedy’s psychological action adventure, check out GameSpot’s impressions of the game from last month’s expo.

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When Alan Wake eventually comes out for the Xbox 360 in early-2010 (the PC release is currently up in the air) it looks like it won’t be the end of the psychological thriller author’s adventures.

It’s already known that Remedy Games is targeting an episodic-like structure for Alan Wake, but it wasn’t clear that the developer was targeting further entries.
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Yesterday we questioned whether Remedy’s psychological action thriller Alan Wake would still be coming to PCs after a lengthy silence over this platform’s connection to the game.

Now being published by Microsoft Games Studios, many PC gamers were unsure whether the company would hold back the PC release in order to bolster the Xbox 360’s exclusive games offering.

Markus of Remedy Games has responded to concerned gamers."
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Umbra, the company’s "flagship" product, is GPU-accelerated, and intended to boost rendering performance and speed content creation for rich game worlds on Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3.
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