Popular action RPG Torchlight is free on GOG.com for the next 48 hours. Additionally, a number of Dungeons & Dragons-inspired RPGs have been heavily discounted.

Microsoft spokesperson Major Nelson announced this Alan Wake game will be a standalone Xbox Live Arcade release.

As usual, Microsoft plans on rolling out holiday bundles with two games. Korea’s comes with Forza Motorsport 3 and Alan Wake.

Writers block is the reason Alan Wake, a renowned novelist, travels to Bright Falls, an idyllic small town until the sun sets. Things go bump in the night and Alan will have to face them if he wants to save his wife.

Microsoft is in full Alan Wake promotion mode and released a new batch of media just for Japan.

Microsoft announced Alan Wake back in E3 2005 and it will finally be ready on May 18. That makes Alan Wake’s announcement to store time longer than Final Fantasy XIII’s.

Our Alan Wake interview continues with Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen from Remedy explaining the role of light and Alan’s everyday guy characteristics.

Alan Wake stars an uncanny protagonist, a writer who is trapped in one of his stories that he doesn’t recall writing. The story is told in a series of “episodes”, sort of like a TV show as Matias Myllyrinne and Oskari Häkkinen explain in this interview.

Alan Wake isn’t a stereotypical action hero. He’s a writer, an everyday kind of guy, who happens to be trapped in what feels like one of his novels.