Originally announced during Spike Video Game Awards back in 2010, Insane was set to be the first in a trilogy, coming out in 2013. IP rights have been returned to del Toro and it’s unknown exactly how far into development Volition were up until this point.

THQ have also abandoned mobile and casual ambitions for the time being, Jason Rubin, THQ’s President stated, “By canceling these explorations outside of our core business, we feel we can improve focus on our core game portfolio, which remains unchanged.”

Let’s hope Insane gets picked up by someone else as a horror game directed by a bonafide horror director. Please.

Source: Eurogamer

Last week at GDC Danny Bilson, vice-president of THQ’s core games, spoke about the upcoming inSane franchise, a planned trilogy of games from the mind of Guillermo Del Toro:

“We have aspirations to make a trilogy,” Bilson told press at GDC. “If the first game doesn’t work, there won’t be a trilogy. It’s not complicated.”

Bilson compared to having a Hollywood industry attitude: “If Avatar had been a flop then there wouldn’t be two more sequels. And if the first Matrix wasn’t a success there wouldn’t be two more sequels… We have to succeed on the first one. And then we have to succeed on the second one! And then you can make the third one. It’s not really that arrogant, if you will, to plan a trilogy because we’re very realistic.”

Thanks to Joystiq for the info.

Guillermo Del Toro of Pan’s Lanyrinth and Hellboy fame is supposedly “completely engaged” with the development of THQ’s upcoming InSane trilogy, and isn’t quite the name drop that many had speculated.

Danny Bilson, THQ’s publishing boss, told CVG that the “fiction flow” of Del Toro’s debut game is already complete. Bilson has described that upcoming title as “horrific action,” but not a full blown survival horror title as we know it.

Bilson has also said that “[Del Toro is] a hardcore gamer, he’s passionate about bringing some new thrills to gaming, he’s completely engaged with myself, Paul DeMeo – head of our writing team at THQ – and the guys at Volition who are making the game.”

“He’s already been out there [in Canada, to Volition’s studio]. We just got through the fiction flow of the game just before Holidays. He was in every meeting, he sat there all day long kicking stuff around. He’s funny as hell, a huge fan of games; he’s just like the rest of us. He’s not going anywhere. If he were here now, he’d tell you: ‘I do not want to be one of those film-makers who puts my name on something and doesn’t do the work.'”

“Is Del Toro a great game director? Hopefully we have the skills to filter his talent into that. He will learn tonnes [on the first game], and then on the second InSane he’ll be even more opinionated because he’ll know more things to poke at. Rest assured, this is a Guillermo Del Toro game for sure.”

Only time will tell how the InSane titles turn out.

Thanks to CVG for the info.

The press release announcing Del Toro’s inSane has confirmed that the game is in-fact a trilogy and not a standalone title.

Interestingly it also clarifies that while THQ’s owns the rights to publish the games, if a movie is made however, it will be an IP owned by Del Toro alone.

Could this be a hint at a movie based on inSane in the future? Possible, maybe.

Here’s a snippet about the game:

“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,” he said.

The game’s releasing 2013 so a long time for it to come by.