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Alan Wake: The Writer (360)

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Release Date: 10/12/10
Genre: Modern Action Adventure
Developer: Remedy
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
ESRB Rating: Teen
ESRB Content: Language, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence, Blood

Our second downloadable content pack, "The Writer," finds Wake in strange circumstances; now fully aware of the thing that opposes him, he must survive one increasingly nightmarish situation after another.

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