Supermassive Games announced a new horror series, The Dark Pictures Anthology, at Gamescom's opening ceremony today.

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Supermassive CEO Pete Samuels announced that the "intense standalone horror games" are being published by Bandai Namco. Like Supermassive's horror hit Until Dawn, "your decisions, your reactions to horror thrown at you, will determine who will and who won’t survive’.Each game in the anthology will feature a new cast of characters, kicking off with The Man of Medan, due for release sometime in 2019.The Man of Medan features a group of divers investigating a World War 2 shipwreck, who then appear to discover horrors buried in a plane wreck at the bottom of the ocean. The player will take control of all five divers in the course of the story. Check out the trailer below.Unlike Until Dawn, which was a PS4 exclusive, The Dark Pictures Anthology is being developed for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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