Guillermo Del Toro set to make a horror game with THQ

This might be old news, probably a couple weeks, but I couldn’t help mention something about it considering PJ just picked up The Hobbit project. Guillermo Del Toro has announced that he and THQ (the major video game publishing and developing company) are developing a horror-themed game. That’s fucking awesome. In an interview with MTV, he talked about the game being “huge” and having a three year development deal. So we might be playing a Toro game by 2013. I mean fuck, that is awesome.

Now I’m pretty big into video games, not to an unhealthy level, but I really don’t know what is cooler: The fact that The Hobbit is going into production with PJ at the helm or that Del Toro stepping down means a fucking crazy ass horror game is going to be made. He described the game as being “Lovecraftian”, now what that means is hard to describe. I hit up Google and it gave me a pretty clear definition: “The term Lovecraftian is especially used to describe fictional creatures with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy, such as misplaced organs and additional limbs. It may also describe beings with combination of features from disparate creatures normally shunned, such as combining tentacles, bat-wings, and scales.” That is fucking awesome.

I’ve heard that Del Toro is a mega nerd when is comes to gaming and I have the feeling he knows how to put something totally bad ass together. I remember hearing on the Pan’s Labyrinth commentary that he got his ideas for sound design from video games. Another thing cool about that interview was Del Toro almost alluded to the fact that he was pitching around a game in 2006 that was eerily similar to Left 4 Dead. Was that pudgy Mexican claiming that True Rock Studios stole that shit? What a fucking baller. However, he did say that he thinks Left 4 Dead is fucking awesome and that his daughter and him rape at the game. Could this silly bastard be any cooler? Moreover, THQ came out and denied anything certain, but I think that is just legal bullshit and that something is definitely set in stone. I’m looking forward to more formal announcements.

-Collin