Decline Alone in the Dark: Illumination

[Astral Rag]

Atari is releasing "re-imagined" versions of Alone in the Dark and Haunted House this autumn on PC, the publisher has announced.


The former project is called Alone in the Dark: Illumination and is being developed by Pure.

Haunted House's reboot won't have a subtitle, and it's being developed by Dreampainters, the studio behind the 2012 first-person horror game Anna.

The original Alone in the Dark was released in 1992 by Infogrames, although the series was more recently rebooted in 2008 by Eden Games as an Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, Wii and PC release.

Conversely, Haunted House also had a modern spin-off as earlier this summer Atari released a mobile autorunning game based on the brand. The original Haunted House debuted in 1982 for Atari 2600.


http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-08-20-atari-is-rebooting-alone-in-the-dark-and-haunted-house

http://aitd.com/

 

[Ebonsword]

They must have seen the hype that the new Silent Hill, Alien: Isolation, and The Evil Within are getting and said "Well, shit, that looks like a good bandwagon to jump on. What do we have sitting around that we can revamp to capitalize on it?"

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

I hope you'll actually be alone this fucking time.

 

[SerratedBiz]

Haunted House's reboot won't have a subtitle

I read it like they were disgusted by this fact.

 

[Angthoron]

I thought Atari said they'd not publish on PC anymore.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

The fuck they're still in business?

 

[Don Peste]

The fuck they're still in business?

Sierra! TSI! Atari! They're coming for you, Barbara!

 

[Untermensch]

So who's the next big publisher to go bankrupt?

Squeenix or Atari?

 

[mindx2]

So who's the next big publisher to go bankrupt?

Squeenix or Atari?

I thought Atari was bankrupt?

 

[Untermensch]

So who's the next big publisher to go bankrupt?

Squeenix or Atari?

I thought Atari was bankrupt?

I was thinking about the THQ scenario of selling all of their IP's and going defunct.

 

[Angthoron]

So who's the next big publisher to go bankrupt?

Squeenix or Atari?

I thought Atari was bankrupt?

Just morally and intellectually bankrupt.

 

[DeepOcean]

A zombie publisher comming out of the land of the dead to "reimagine" a franchise it fucked mercilessly for years... obviously nothing could go wrong.

 

[DeepOcean]

So who's the next big publisher to go bankrupt?

Squeenix or Atari?

I thought Atari was bankrupt?

I was thinking about the THQ scenario of selling all of their IP's and going defunct.

Technically, if Interplay is still around, Atari could have learned necromancy from Herve...

 

[Whisky]

Another Alone in the Dark reboot...ooooooookay.

And Haunted House...man that was lame even as a three year old.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I could maybe care a little if AitD hadn't been raped a good few times already.

 

[Scroo]

Played AitD 1 a few months back, it's actually pretty good and atmospheric. A true remake would be amazing but who am I kidding, I guess I can be glad when it won't reach Thi4f levels of derpiness

 

[Angthoron]

Played AitD 1 a few months back, it's actually pretty good and atmospheric. A true remake would be amazing but who am I kidding, I guess I can be glad when it won't reach Thi4f levels of derpiness

It's okay, it'll keep the important founding principles of the original intact. You know, things like:

* Dubstep
* QTEs
* Cinematic cutscenes
* Angelic choirs
* Optional Kinect/Voice integration
* Story by Rihanna (optionally: Pratchett)
* Jason Statham voice acting everything

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Last Aitd was so bad. Consolized, trying to be epic, no horror at all. Shitty vehicle sections and derpy plot made me realize that there is nothing to look forward to so I uninstalled it. I can't even find any info about Pure guys, so it's probably their first game. The should leave the series in peace, but knowing Atari it will be some mediocre game with securom on top of it. Just play the original and remember to move the cabinet to the window! That was a hell of a scary game when I was a kid. Funny how the fourth one was a Resident Evil clone, I've liked Devil Inside more in the shooting department.

 

[:Flash:]

So who's the next big publisher to go bankrupt?

Squeenix or Atari?

I thought Atari was bankrupt?

Just morally and intellectually bankrupt.

Atari was bankrupt: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...rgaming-got-moo-and-total-annihilation.84222/
Looks like they got to keep AitD.

 

[Metro]

I thought Haunted House already had some kind of reboot?

Fake edit: Yep -- http://store.steampowered.com/app/9960/

 

[msxyz]

Who owns the completely desecrated, violated, gang raped, fossilized corpse of Atari these days?

Watching your favourite past time hobby declining even further and not feeling bad anymore is kind of fun...

 

[Jaesun]

I thought Haunted House already had some kind of reboot?

Fake edit: Yep -- http://store.steampowered.com/app/9960/

Atari's classic groundbreaking game is back

classic groundbreaking game

Wat?

 

[Ebonsword]

Funny how the fourth one was a Resident Evil clone...

At least it was a pretty good Resident Evil clone. I doubt that we'll even get that with the new one.

 

[Darth Roxor]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/09/01/a...perative-multiplayer-teaser-trailer-released/

Built with Unreal Engine 4, Alone in the Dark: Illumination will feature a cooperative multiplayer mode, as well as four different character classes in the form of the Hunter, Witch, Engineer and Priest. Presumably the coop mode will support up to four players, tasked with purging a town of a supernatural force known as The Darkness.

Alone in the fucking dark indeed

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Sounds a bit like a shooter, but the teaser trailer below is definitely sticking firmly to the series' horror roots. It's in development at Pure, a new studio boasting talent responsible for Dead Island 2, Bioshock Infinite, and Battlefield 2. Given that pedigree, and the class details on the game's official website, it looks like we may be in for a slightly Left 4 Dead-oriented affair.

Yeah, I'm confident it's sticking to the roots of the series.
At least now we know who is the engimatic Pure developer. Judging by the titles the monsters will scale to your level, the shooting will be boring, the plot will be 2deep4u and it will need a couple of patches to work properly in multiplayer.