Get an amazing deal on Alan Wake before it disappears from stores

By Emma Boyle

Remedy, the developer of Alan Wake, has announced that it has to remove the game from the Steam and Xbox stores due to a licensing issue with the game’s music.

As of May 15, the game will no longer be sold in physical stores, on the online Xbox Store, or on Steam. If you already physically own the game you can, of course, keep it and be safe in the knowledge that a music corporation isn’t about to raid your home.

Remedy said that though it’s looking to renew the license and eventually start selling the game again, there’s currently “no timeframe” for it happening.

Closing the book

It wasn’t made clear exactly which song on the soundtrack is causing the issue, or if it’s more than one, but the game contains songs from huge artists like David Bowie and Nick Cave.

We imagine licensing (and re-licensing) such songs isn’t cheap, which perhaps goes some way to explaining why Remedy only licensed them for seven years.

It won’t come as any surprise, then, that you’ll be able to pick Alan Wake and all of its DLC up seriously cheap on Steam this weekend in what Remedy is calling the Alan Wake …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming