According to a mysterious unnamed "source close to the game," Remedy's Entertainment's Alan Wake will be arriving in May. Could it be that this game, in development for more than five years, might actually be nearing completion?

The month of May seems reasonable enough -- Microsoft has said that the game is due next Spring, after all. This game must be getting a very thick layer of polish, however, as Remedy claimed the game was finished around last August.

Remedy Entertainment's biggest hit so far has been the Max Payne franchise. They sold the rights to that IP back in 2002 though, and the profits no doubt went towards the development of Alan Wake.  Many eyes are on this game to see how it'll do.  Certainly, with this much time spent in production, Remedy has a great deal riding on the game.

Alan Wake puts you in the shoes of a writer dude who is trying to figure out why he can't come up with any original plots, then wakes up in the morning with curious pools of blood all over the place, his wife missing -- something like that anyways. You'll be Alan Wake as he goes around a small sleepy town, in the vein of "pschological horror."  An interesting element includes the game's "combat," in which light sources like a lit flare can be used to combat the supernatural.

Publisher Microsoft Game Studios unceremoniously dropped the PC version of this game for reasons never fully explained.  Now the title is just an Xbox 360 exclusive, probably set to arrive in May, if this reasonable rumor pans out. 

Update: Further 'inside sources' point towards a May 12th release date, and a late 2010 arrival of the PC version that was put aside to finish the console version first.