Jay G.

You can still buy Alan Wake right now on Steam, I think it will be delisted around 1pm EST today.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is still on sale for $0.99. I fell like for $0.99, you can't really go wrong.

After today, Alan Wake's American Nightmare will still be available for sale, although not for 90% off.

fumanstan

Even though I have the game on Xbox One from getting Quantum Break, went ahead and bought a PC copy from Humble Bundle. For just a few bucks, figured it would be nice to have handy on Steam too.

Rival11

Very cool - thanks

DVDTalker76

I'm so tired of products disappearing over licensing.

Anyone know why licenses are written in a way that requires such a drastic end? Physical products produced under license don't cease to exist - ever - unless someone destroys them. It doesn't seem to bother anyone or hurt the companies which permitted their IP to be used. I can't see why digital licenses can't be written to similarly allow products to exist into perpetuity once created.

There has to be a better way. Shortsightedness in contract language, or some legitimate obstacle I wouldn't be aware of?

Jay G.

Well, I'm not sure you're understanding the issue here. The digital copies that were sold will exist in perpetuity on Steam/GoG/Humble/PSN/XBL for the people that purchased the game. So the sold digital copies aren't disappearing. They're just not able to sell more.

And licenses have expired for physical copy video games too. Nintendo licensed to use the name/likeness for Punch Out when they first released it in the US, under the title "Mike Tyson's Punch Out." When the license later lapsed, they re-released the game without Mike Tyson was just "Punch Out."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Out!!_(NES)

TV/Movie licenses often are time-limited, so games like Capcom's Ducktales had to go out of print, and couldn't be sold digitally, since Capcom didn't have the license to use the characters anymore, up until they relicensed them for the remaster. Similar things have happened for games featuring TMNT, X-Men, etc.

Ideally, game companies would get licenses for whatever works they need to license in perpetuity, but in practice that may be hard to get.

pinata242

Happens quarterly in the Rock Band DLC world. Sometimes the de-listed tracks come back.

Music

Rival11

Bought American Nightmare and I'm glad I did.

Jay G.

Microsoft renegotiated the music rights, and the PC version is once again available for sale, on Steam and GOG right now. Console versions are coming.

To celebrate, Remedy has put Alan Wake on sale for $3, and American Nightmare for $1.80. Steam also has the Collectors Edition for $4, and you can get a bundle for the CE + American Nightmare for only $5.

Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/108710/Alan_Wake/

GOG:
https://www.gog.com/games?devpub=rem...ort=popularity


Edit: Humble Bundle also has the "Alan Wake Franchise" for $5, which includes CE + American Nightmare, with both Steam keys and DRM-free download.
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/alan-wake-franchise

Breakfast with Girls

I mean, Nintendo was pretty eager to ditch that license given current events at the time.

Jay G.

Actually, the Mike Tyson license ran out before Tyson was arrested for rape. Nintendo released the regular Punch Out in August 1990. Tyson was arrested for the rape charges in July 1991. The reason Nintendo didn't renew the license was because Tyson had lost his championship in February 1990.

Dan

Awwwwwwwwww yeah.......

OldBoy

hope it includes all DLC and American Nightmare. will get in heartbeat.

Rival11

I'm buying this.

Toddarino

Fuck yes.
I loved playing this game alone in the dark. Gave me the creeps. That and Condemned.

Decker

I tried replaying it a couple of years ago at my daughter's request. I don't know if it aged poorly or I just didn't have the patience. I didn't enjoy playing it much. It felt slow and not in a suspenseful way. Sometimes gameplay gets outdated if you play enough similar games in the interval between. and that's what it felt like here.

Will this be published by MS? If so I guess it would be free from GPU.

Eric F

Being that Alan Wake is referenced multiple times in the excellent Control it’s a good thing they’re remastering the game for the newer platforms. That said the PC version runs perfectly fine.

Decker

^ And man how disappointing was that Alan Wake integration into Control?

Dan

The Easter eggs in Control were fine. The



Decker

They just showed the trailer on the PlayStation Showcase. Coming 10/5/21. Looks really nice.

Decker

Up for Pre-Order for $29.99
XSX
PS5

OldBoy

Easy buy. Played few minutes of old and was digging. Remastered looks great and might give me itch to play the fantastic Control again (this time on Series X and barely load times!!!) after, even though pretty loose connection.

gerrythedon

Toddarino

Didn’t know the physical copy was coming out later. That’s a bummer. Can’t seem to find out when, but I guess I’ll be waiting.

OldBoy

What’s the difference? I’m sure won’t be priced lower than digital $40. I loathe discs personally.