Iconic Batman Artist Creates Artwork For Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC

Remedy Entertainment’s new Night Springs DLC for its survival horror game Alan Wake 2 recently arrived, featuring the art of Christian Ward. The Eisner Award-winning artist recently penned and drew DC Comics’ three-issue miniseries Batman: City ofMadness.

Ward confirmed that he indeed drew the art for the latest Alan Wake DLC on his official X (formerly known as Twitter) account. Night Springs is divided into three episodes, featuring variants of existing characters in the Remedy shared universe in “what if” type scenarios within Bright Falls, with players controlling transformed versions of the characters. In “Number One Fan,” players play as ‘The Waitress’ – a Rose Marigold-inspired character. In “Time Breaker,” players assume the role of ‘The Actor’ – a character resembling Bright Falls sheriff Tim Breaker. “North Star” features “The Sibling” – a variant of Jesse Faden.

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Alan Wake 2, developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing, is the sequel to 2010’s Alan Wake and was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in October 2023. The game sold over 1.3 million units by February 2024, becoming the developer’s fastest-selling game ever. It met with critical acclaim, garnering several nominations at the Game of the Year awards. Alan Wake2 follows best-selling novelist Alan Wake, trapped in an alternate dimension for 13 years, who attempts to escape by writing a horror story involving an FBI special agent named Saga Anderson.

Christian Ward’s Batman: City of Madness

Christian Ward has worked for several esteemed comic book publishers such as Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse in a career that has spanned a decade. The creator has multiple Eisner Awards under his belt and previously worked on Batman alongside James Tynion before helming Batman: City of Madness. The series debuted in October 2023 and introduced readers to a nightmarish location, Gotham Below, hidden beneath the familiar cityscape.

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Batman forges an uneasy alliance with the Court of Owls and its deadly allies to stop a twisted version of himself and a horde of grotesque versions of his enemies from Gotham Below. Ward described the series as his “love letter to Batman and a pseudo-sequel to Arkham Asylum: Serious House on a Serious Earth.”

Alan Wake 2: Night Springs DLC expansion, featuring art by Christian Ward, is now available.

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