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Saturday night's official announcement of the upcoming horror game inSANE (the hopefully final way to format this game's title) didn't mention any platforms for the THQ published title. There's also no mention of platforms in this morning's press release. However, the launch of the game's teaser site has a "PC DVD-ROM Software" logo clearly in view which means that the Volition-developed game will be available for your hard drive.

This morning's press release also confirms that the game, due out in 2013, will be the first in a trilogy of titles. Movie director Guillermo del Toro will be the "external creative director" for the trilogy. While THQ owns the rights to the game trilogy, del Toro will retain the rights to make inSANE into movies.

The great fantasy filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has been telling pretty much everybody that he is getting into the games industry with publisher THQ for a while now. Tonight at the Video Game Awards, Del Toro finally announced the name of that game: inSane.

Other than the fact that the developer of the game will be Volition and that it's due out sometime in 2013, there's not much else that's known about the game at this point. All we have to go on is the teaser trailer which you can see after the jump. If the final game is as creepy as the trailer suggests, it should be something to look forward to.

Update: THQ exec Danny Bilson "tweeted" word that the game's title should be formated as inSane. So we will go with that.

If you love well done fantasy movies, you must also love the work of Guillermo del Toro. The Mexican director behind such great movies like Mimic, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labarinth, and most recently Hellboy 2 had been slated to take on the two-movie adaptation of The Hobbit. del Toro recently left that project but has written the upcoming horror film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark which is due out in January 2011.

However del Toro is also a big gamer and in a brief chat with MTV News he revealed that very soon there will be an announcement "with a big company" about the games he is helping to make. del Toro states, "It's not a development deal. We're going to do it. We're doing them." Sounds like there could be a reveal by Gamescom time. Besides saying that the games he is helping to make will be "technically and narratively very interesting" del Toro didn't say anything else on his future game plans.

He's an acclaimed director of films like the Hellboy movies and Pan's Labyrinth and his next project is two Hobbit films. But Guillermo del Toro is also a fan of games and Edge Online has a brief chat with the director about his gaming interests.

Del Toro's first game was Pong and he has played games ever since. He believed that games "are an incredible storytelling tool, one that filmmakers should embrace instead of reject. In the next ten years, they'll yield a couple of narrative masterpieces." He lists Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and BioShock as favorites. A few years ago he came up with his own game title, Sundown, but that idea didn't gain traction with game developers. He states, "I'm a game player, and I can keep thinking about what I want to see and make it reality when I finally get to design one. Maybe I'll reinitiate contacts in the industry in the near future."