"Alan Wake 2" has finally been officially announced. Finnish developer Remedy released a 58-second teaser trailer at the recent Game Awards, announcing that the sequel to the hit Xbox 360 action game "Alan Wake" will finally arrive in 2023, indeed 13 years after the original was released.

In hindsight, this announcement may have been predictable. This is because Remedy has recently had a petite revival of "Alan Wake," with the main character first appearing in the "Control" DLC, followed by a full-fledged remastered version for current and previous generation consoles.

This remaster brought Alan Wake to PlayStation hardware for the first time. The Xbox and PC exclusivity seems to have truly broken down, as the sequel will be released for the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC via the Epic Games Store.

While the previous game and its standalone DLC, American Nightmare, were action games with horror elements, this sequel seems to change things up. The trailer hints at this, and Remedy's creative director, Sam Lake, acknowledged this after the trailer's release. He described "Alan Wake 2" as the studio's "first ever survival horror game."

"The first game had some horror elements, but it was an action game.

"And we feel that this is the perfect genre to tie the story and the gameplay more closely together than ever before. Because the horror story is at the heart of this work, a deep, psychologically layered mystery."

But that's all for now. Lake said that, appropriately enough, the team is "in the dark to tackle this." But he promised more information in the summer of 2022.

The thing is, no matter how much time passes, don't give up hope that old favorites will return. In fact, next year, a full 12 years after "Call of Pripyat" wowed PC gamers, "Stalker 2" will be released. To play it, however, you'll have to use a ridiculous amount of capacity on the Xbox series.