Floor management to Main Tom, Treatment Leisure is eradicating David Bowie’s “Area Oddity” from Alan Wake’s credit and changing it with a model new authentic tune. Treatment introduced that the tune will likely be eliminated in an replace on Sept. 10, one thing required as a result of “modifications in licensing.” Bummer!
The brand new tune is named “Unusual Moons,” from Alan Wake and Management composer Petri Alanko. Alanko said in a post on X the tune is “written from a viewpoint of an astronaut who does have fairly just a few issues” — however has made peace with it. He tailored the tune from a bit of music initially tied to a reduce Alan Wake stage that was eliminated “lengthy earlier than launch.” The tune doesn’t seem like obtainable on-line simply but, however Polygon has reached out to Treatment for extra info.
Treatment’s path this time round is a reduction to future Alan Wake gamers — no pulling something down, like what occurred in 2017 to Alan Wake and, notably, this yr with Yager Improvement’s Spec Ops: The Line. 2K Video games mentioned it was pulled as a result of licensing points.
After all, it’s nonetheless unhappy to see the Bowie tune go — it was a memorable touchstone that bookended the primary Alan Wake sport. There are only a few video games during which folks really keep in mind what the top credit are set to. Nonetheless, Treatment’s chosen the very best path ahead in opting to interchange the tune. Alan Wake followers get new music!
