Alone in the Dark reboot delayed to avoid "chaotic" October release window

Continuing its trend of bringing games from The Dark Pictures Anthology to the Nintendo Switch, developer Supermassive Games and publisher Bandai Namco have announced that The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope will be coming to Nintendo’s platform on October 5. The game is now also available to pre-order on the eShop.

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Supermassive Games will release The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope for Switch via Nintendo eShop on October 5 for $19.99, the companies announced.

Intimidating shadows looming near wish to snap your sanity, adventurer. Will you waver in their presence?

The Alone in the Dark franchise has been dormant for a long time now, but in this new golden era of horror games, THQ Nordic and Pieces Interactive are hoping to breathe new life into it with its upcoming reboot. The upcoming Alone in the Dark reimagining is still some months off from launch, but THQ Nordic has offered another look at it in a new behind-the-scenes overview trailer that focuses on the monsters you will encounter in the game.

is a 2012 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screenplay written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan and from a story written by David S. Goyer. The film, which is the third and final installment in Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, is set eight years after the events of 2008’s The Dark Knight and sees Bruce Wayne come out of retirement as Batman when a new villain named Bane threatens the city. In his attempts to stop Bane, Batman also encounters a mysterious and morally ambiguous thief named Selina Kyle.

is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and his brother Jonathan. The film, which is the second installment in Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, follows Batman, police commissioner James Gordon, and District Attorney Harvey Dent, as they join forces to stop organized crime in Gotham City, only for the trio to face a new challenge in the form of an insane criminal mastermind named Joker, who attempts to derail their efforts.

Alone In the Dark has been delayed and will no longer be releasing on October 25th, THQ Nordic has confirmed. Instead a new release date of January 16th, 2024 has been given, with the game releasing on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The main reason given is because of the already busy release schedule of October, where other heavy hitters are due to release.

Alone in the Dark’s reboot will skip the scares of Halloween in favour of the bleak terrors of January, as publishers THQ Nordic announced that their star-studded revival of the classic horror series has been delayed to 2024.

Alone In the Dark has been delayed and will no longer be releasing on October 25th, THQ Nordic has confirmed. Instead a new release date of January 16th, 2024 has been given, with the game releasing on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. The main reason given is because of the already busy release schedule of October, where other heavy hitters are due to release.

Alone in the Dark, the remake of the 1992 cult classic survival horror game of the same name, has been delayed from October to January 16, 2024.

THQ Nordic has announced it's delaying promising PS5 horror title Alone in the Dark to 16th January 2024 to avoid the extremely busy release schedule of October. The game was originally slated to release in amongst Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Alan Wake 2, but will now represent one of the first major game launches of next year.

The scariest thing to video game developers isn’t ghosts or monsters, as the new Alone in the Dark game has been pushed to 2024, partly to avoid an incredibly busy October gaming season, where it would have competed with Alan Wake 2 and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. This is a wise decision, considering how packed 2023 has been as a whole, especially as Alone in the Dark also needs extra polish time.