Alan Wake is your own personal Jesus

​By Ryan Winslett

The end to the Alan Wake story draws near and, wouldn't you know it, you get to pay a little extra for DLC that contains said ending.

To help take some of the sting out of the transaction, EMI Music Publishing Scandinavia and Alan Wake developers Remedy Entertainment have announced Wake's final chapter will feature "the most popular electronic band the world has ever known," Depeche Mode.

EMI also provided the song "No, I Don't Remember," by Swedish singer-songwriter Anna Ternheim, for the game's first story-continuing DLC content "The Signal." According to Remedy's head of franchise development, Oskari Hakkinen, the music publisher has provided another perfect ditty to drop into the unsettling world of Alan Wake in Depeche Mode's "the Darkest Star."

"The music of Depeche Mode adds to the atmosphere and feel of the thirller," Hakkinen said. "The song is so fitting to the scene in Alan Wake that every time I play it, it makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck."

It makes his hair stand up, people. His hair!

Look for the hair-raising, Depeche-Mode-infused conclusion to Alan Wake in "The Writer" DLC later this year.