Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment have announced that the long-awaited Xbox 360 exclusive psychological action thriller Alan Wake will be released on 21st May in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. North America will get it a few days earlier on 18th May.

Alan Wake is set in "an idyllic all-American small town and its surroundings in the state of Washington. Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares. In the game, those nightmares come true..."