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Developer Frictional Games is participating in the current Humble Indie Bundle "name your price" deal with their survival horror game Penumbra Overture. However the developer is also working on their next game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, with a planned release later this summer. Now the developer is giving gamers a break on pre-ordering the title.

From now until May 11, Amnesia The Dark Descent will be priced at just $10, or 50 percent off its normal pre-order price. If they get 2,000 pre-orders before May 31 the development team have pledged to put in extra content in the game.

It looks like one of our favorite upcoming indie games is getting closer to reality. Frictional Games, the developers of the creepy Penumbra series of horror-themed adventure titles, are now taking pre-orders for their next game Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The normal price of the game will be $20 but pre-orders can purchase the survival horror game now for just $16. The game's web site even has a "pre-order-o-meter". If they reach 2,000 pre-orders for the game it apparently will allow the dev team to add extra content to the title.

The game itself will be released via digital download in August for PC, Mac and Linux. In the meantime you can check out the first real gameplay trailer (via YouTube) after the jump:

Frictional Games, the development team behind the interesting Penumbra horror-adventure game series, have been working for some time on their next project. Previously the game was under the working title of Unknown. Now the developers have revealed the official title of the game: Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

They have also launched the game's official web site and posted up a brief gameplay trailer via YouTube which you can check out after the jump. As one might expect from the title your playable character is apparently put in a situation where he doesn't know who he is or how he got into a strange home. The game is due for release for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms sometime in 2010.

Macintosh owners and folks who use the Linux OS haven't been able to check out the Penumbra series of first person horror adventure games as one large title. But that's changing on Friday. Developer Frictional Games has announced that it will release The Penumbra Collection for Mac and Linux users on that day. The collection (Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and the Penumbra: Requiem expansion) will be made available as one download rather than the original's "three downloads with three serials" version.

Beginning with the release on Friday and ending on Sunday you can download the Penumbra Collection for Mac and Linux for a mere $5. The price goes back up to its normal $20 on Monday.

Valve's Steam service has announced its regular weekend sale, cutting the prices on a couple of acclaimed horror themed action-adventure titles. All of the Penumbra games from developer Frictional Games have been cut 75 percent for this weekend only.

You can choose to buy Penumbra Black Plague Gold Edition (with the original game and the expansion Penumbra Requiem) or Penumbra Overture separately for $3.75 and $2.50, respectively. Or you can get both games in the Penumbra collectors pack for just $5. Either way it's a massive bargain. Frictional Games are currently working on their next horror themed game Unknown for release sometime in 2010.

The team over at Frictional Games (creators of the Penumbra series of games) are still hard at work on their next project; the horror themed action-adventure game Unknown. This week the developer posted up a couple of new screenshots (added to our gallery) and a new development update on the game.

As previously reported Unknown is a period piece set in the 18th century. The player will be exploring an old castle that is naturally haunted. Frictional Games states, "To be careful is a must as the sanity of the player could quickly falter if inhabitants of the castle were to take notice of him." They have created their own in-house technology for the graphics and the physics have gotten a facelift. In the game, " . . . it's possible to slowly drag drawers open to examine the inside in search for clues." The early version of Unknown is apparently ready for any publishers to check out for themselves. The game is due for release in the spring of 2010.

After releasing a number of games in its Penumbra series of horror-themed action adventure games, developer Frictional Games has now offered up some early gameplay footage from their next title. The survival horror game, which was formally announced back in September, now has a title, Unknown.

There's still not a lot of info on the game itself but the footage, posted up by the developer on YouTube, does show off some of the new physics and lighting effect Frictional Games are putting into their in-house game engine. In fact the developer plans to release the game's editing tools for mod makers to create their own content when Unknown is released. We will have to wait a little while, however. Unknown is slated for release in the spring quarter of 2010.

The Penumbra Collection puts the entire psychological horror series into one box. It will include Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and the recent expansion Penumbra: Requiem. Expect to dive into the mystery later this month when the collection releases.

Download HD Penumbra Collection Trailer (59 MB)
Download Penumbra: Black Plague Demo (133 MB)
Download Penumbra: Overture Demo for Windows (117 MB) and Mac (133 MB)

Frictional Games, the development studio behind the Penumbra series, recently released a short and mysterious video hinting toward its next project. Viewers are free to guess what all these concept art photos might amount to, but it's sure to be another kind of horror survival game. Visiting the website might offer up some more clues.

Download the HD Frictional Games Unknown Project Teaser Trailer (13 MB)

With their Penumbra game series retired for a while with the release of Penumbra: Requiem, developer Frictional Games is already in development of their next major game project. The company has launched a teaser site for the still unnamed game which will be a first person survival horror title set in an old castle the late 18th century.

Frictional Games that the title will have "all new technology and ideas to become the most advanced, content filled and creative game from our studio to date." The teaser site has some concept artwork from the game as well as a message that is in code that is almost certainly some clue as to the nature of the title. There's no word yet on a release date for the new game.