The new content is dubbed The Writer, according to a blurb that cropped up on the game's downloadable content menu late last week (see picture, stage right). It, seemingly, sets up the next-next phase of the game's core narrative: Mr. Wake knows his enemy, but still finds himself in a battle of survival against spooky junk. "Our second downloadable content pack, The Writer, finds Wake in strange circumstances," the blurb reads, "Now fully aware of the thing that opposes him, he must survive one increasingly nightmarish situation after another."
In other words, The Writer won't be about sunshine, kittens or rainbows. Not that we should expect such a thing considering what we've learned about the game's other piece of unreleased DLC. In the game's first add-on content, The Signal--which is due to hit July 27th and costs 800 Microsoft Points for anyone who bought the game "used" like a criminal--Wake will face "a threat unlike anything he's ever encounter before." But it's still a threat "he's intimately familiar with." He'll need to follow something called the "Signal" in order to "make sense of it all." Like a rainbow or a kitten has ever provided insight, right?
Like The Signal, The Writer has been priced at 800 Microsoft Points. No word on release date for this second pack, but the blurb does mention that it's "coming soon." I'm guessing that means August or so. So much for that "get all your DLC out within the first 60 seconds the game hits the streets" plan we hear so much about.