Amnesia: The Dark Descent Developers Planning Next Game, Might Be On Consoles

Castrum - Some interesting talk coming out of Gamescom:

"We have an Amnesia-related project in mind, but it is not 100 percent set at this point. Our main development project will be to move on a bit and try and expand what we built on in Amnesia. We have been so focused on just creating fear that we want to see if we can evoke other, less primitive, emotions as well. This means our next game will not have super focus on just horror. However, the other goals we are striving for will definitely result in a scary atmosphere. 

He also told us that the company is very interested in consoles and are hoping to release its next game on one. 

"It is a bit of a hassle now though since the difference in hardware between PC and consoles is quite large. We are developing to cram what we can out of what we think the average PC rig will look like in the two years or so when the next game is released. At the same time, we're keeping an eye on what the most pressing consoles limits are so we still can make a port from the PC."

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/19/amnesia-dev-discusses-success-next-project/

Amnesia: The Dark Descent Sells 400K

Castrum - Good to see indie developers getting rewarded for making quality games these days:

We're still not sure what drives players to submit themselves to the psychological assault of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Whatever it is, it seems to affect quite a few gamers, as Frictional Games' Thomas Grip revealed at GDC Europe that the survival horror title has sold 400,000 copies.

It's a significantly higher number than last January, when Frictional reported sales were nearing 200,000, which already handily surpassed the company's "dream estimates" of 100,000 copies. In short, that's a lot of dudes screaming like little babies.

I'm not much of a Horror gamer (active imagination and all that), but I've been pestering MjolnirX to play this game for a while now.

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/15/amnesia-the-dark-descent-scares-up-400-000-in-sales/