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If you had any concerns that Alan Wake would hang up his flashlight after American Nightmare, fear not. Remedy Entertainment CEO Matias Myllyrinne says that while the studio is still unsure what its next game will be, they'll "certainly continue" with the series.

"We'll certainly continue with Wake," Myllyrinne told Joystiq. "Right now we're focusing on getting the PC out next week, then getting American Nightmare out. And it's too early to talk about what our next move is, but we've obviously put things into motion."

He says if American Nightmare is a bomb, that wouldn't bode well for future games, but they feel "fairly certain" it will do well. Ultimately, the studio's next plans will come down to demand. "We're crowd pleasers, we'll do what the audience wants, cause usually that's the good business move as well," he said.

American Nightmare launches on February 22 for $15 (1,200 MSP) as part of the Xbox Live Arcade House Party. The PC version of Alan Wake, with a few extra bells and whistles, is hitting Steam on February 16, and other digital distribution channels afterwards.

Newsbrief: Apple will reportedly unveil the next iteration of its successful iPad tablet computer line at a San Francisco event taking place in early March -- and could ship the device shortly afterward. The company debuted the iPad 2 around the same time last year in an event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, across the street from the Game Developers Conference, and could be aiming to hold its press meeting against the ...

The 1.4 update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available now on Xbox 360, and will be coming to the PlayStation 3 later today. The update brings assorted bug and quest fixes across all platforms, including yet another whack at the PlayStation 3's most persistent problem.

A few notables from the patch list include fixes to some crashes like AI and pathing, optimization and performance adjustments, roughly two dozen quest fixes. If you had some kind of unresolvable quest sitting around in your queue, this might be the patch to fix it.

One eye-catching note for PlayStation 3 players should be "long term play optimizations for memory and performance" on the platform. The game has an ugly tendency to see a sharp performance drop after extended play, which is especially dire in a game that can go on for hundreds of hours. Even after a former update was meant to solve the problems, they've persisted, so hopefully this time they'll be stamped out for good.

[In the latest in our "Road to the IGF" series of interviews with 2012 IGF finalists, Gamasutra speaks with Alexander Bruce about his 2012 IGF Technical Excellence Award nominee Antichamber.] Alexander "Demruth" Bruce's Antichamber is a game about discovery, set inside a vibrant, minimal, Escher-like world, where geometry and space follow unfamiliar rules, and obstacles are a matter of perception. The game was a finalist for the Nuovo Award at the 2011 Independent Games Festival, ...