I've spent the last three weeks getting married, going on a honeymoon, diving The Great Barrier Reef and getting The Bends. It seems a lot went on while I was gone, but rather than spam your RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds with a dozen new articles, I thought a summary of those stories would be best, prior to business as usual.

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Yesterday it was discovered that amidst the Steam registry there were references to Remedy's Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake. Wasting little time, Remedy has now confirmed the PC port, is which set to be released in early 2012. Both DLC episodes, The Signal and The Writer, will be included at no extra cost....

I remember being really excited about the PC release of Alan Wake. It turns out Remedy weren't, though. Just days ago it was made clear that the anticipated title is to make its way to the Xbox 360 only; "we ultimately realized that the most compelling way to experience Alan Wake was on the Xbox 360 platform, so we focused on making it an Xbox 360 exclusive" a Microsoft representative told Strategy Informer....