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Del Toro Talking To A “Very Big Company” To Revive inSane

Ben-Dutka 11 Comments

Noted film director Guillermo del Toro must've been disappointed when his proposed game project, inSane , had to be ditched by a floundering THQ.

But it seems he isn't interested in letting the title fall by the wayside (remember, this is supposed to be a trilogy), and now he's talking to a "very, very big company" that will help resurrect the temporarily derailed project.

Or at least, that's what he told the Toronto Sun last week:

We are in talks with a very, very big company. I can’t say who, but it’s one of the big ones. They really responded to the game, they responded to what we were trying."

Any idea which company might pick up inSane ? He has been quoted as saying he'd love for Half-Life developer Valve to be involved, but we're not sure they qualify as a "very, very big company." At this point, though, we just want to hear a little more about the game; i.e., just the baseline details. Like, knowing the genre, intended platforms, and general theme, concept and style…

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inSane Finds A New Home, Still At Least Two Years Away

Ben-Dutka 4 Comments

After THQ dumped Guillermo del Toro's proposed video game trilogy, inSane , we all figured we wouldn't hear about it again for a while. After all, it takes time to find a new publisher, right?

Well, according to what the acclaimed film director told IGN , it didn't take long at all to find a new home for inSane :

"We were going to go to a lot of developers after THQ, but it seems like we’re going to be developing it after the first meeting we had. I can’t disclose where it was, but we went to a great developer on the first meeting and it seems that they’re picking it up because they love the package."

Now, we're not sure if he means to say "publisher" there, but I figure we'll learn the details in due time. As for a time frame, del Toro believes the first game will require another two years of development, which would presumably put the title into the next generation of hardware…right? Here's the progress update:

"The development span of a game like this is three years. We put a good year and a half into it and we have the universe quite figured out, but we are now going to take that and start doing all the leg work with coding it, creating the engine, and starting to test it. The basic tenants of the game is that it’s created, but now we’re going to need to start actually making it. It’s going to take a good two years of modeling and rendering and creating the environments and all of that."

We still have no idea what this game (or these games) are even about. No details concerning the genre or platforms have been released just yet but hey, it's very early going. We can be patient.

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Del Toro Refuses To Give Up On inSane

John-Shepard 12 Comments

Thankfully, one of the most respected directors in all of film still wants a piece of the video game industry.

Not too long ago, the struggling THQ was forced to cancel a number of projects, and that included Guillermo del Toro's inSane . But hey, the guy is in movies; he probably runs into this sh** all the time.

And as the "Pan's Labyrinth" director told Kotaku , he's not about to give up yet. There are other ways to go after the project and he won't be shying away from any fresh opportunities to realize his inSane vision. Said del Toro:

"When something doesn't happen in one way, I just continue pursuing it in another way. I own the property and I control it. I'm not giving up on InSane."

It was actually supposed to be a trilogy at first; we're not sure if that's still the intent, but it's nice to see him so determined. By the way, you may also note in that article that del Toro will be using the fantastic voice of Portal 's GLaDOS, Ellen McClain, in his next movie. Good call, that.

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inSANE Still A Ways Off, Del Toro Has Ambitious Goals

John-Shepard 9 Comments

We believe film director Guillermo Del Toro could make a really amazing game. He just has to do it.

We heard a while back that he was working with THQ on a new game trilogy dubbed inSANE . The "Pan's Laybrinth" and "Hellboy" director had initially said the first entry would drop some time in 2013, but unfortunately, it may be even further away.

According to a recent Wired interview , the first game in the trilogy is still "two-and-a-half or three years away," which means it won't be on store shelves until 2014. Del Toro did add the following as a progress update, however:

"Up until the end of pre-production on Pacific Rim, we were still going up to Chicago, to Champaign, Illinois, to work with the developer. And every week we have a conference [call] where we exchange ideas about the design, the gameplay, about the models. I'm taking it little by little. I think it's going to be a fun, scary game."

He also said it would be a "big mistake" to approach this game project as he approaches a movie project. In the case of interactive entertainment, "you don't have to solve one screenplay, you have to solve 20 screenplays, because you are giving the player the illusion of free will." The most intriguing part is when Del Toro says they're going to be trying things that wouldn't even fly in movies…sounds ambitious.

But at this rate, inSANE is going to be on the next generation of consoles, right? Maybe that's why things are getting pushed back.

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Del Toro And THQ Will Go inSane Three Times Over

Ben-Dutka 17 Comments

Well, the rumor about film maker Guillermo Del Toro getting involved in video games was true, and now it appears he's in it for the long haul.

After the "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy" director unveiled his game project – in collaboration with developer Volition and publisher THQ – at the Spike TV VGAs this past weekend, it seems that Del Toro and Co. are planning to go inSane three times over. That's right, THQ has revealed that the game will be the first in a trilogy…even though that first title won't arrive until 2013. As for the director, he had this to say:

"With this new series of video games, I want to take players to a place they have never seen before, where every single action makes them question their own senses of morality and reality."

Del Toro is the creative director and although we don't have much information on it just yet, some say it'll be an RPG, or perhaps more accurately, an action/RPG (yeah, well, what isn't an action/RPG these days?). Furthermore, Del Toro will own the rights "to any filmed entertainment products" based on the game, so he could be going for a double whammy; i.e., three games and three blockbuster movies to go along with 'em.

As for intended platforms, the game's website lists PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, and the corresponding PSN and XBLA services. It'll be interesting to see how an accomplished movie director fares in the interactive entertainment world. Given how close the two mediums have come over the past few decades, perhaps he'll be able to do some amazing things…

Related Game(s): inSane

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