After starting what turned out to be a miniature ARG (or augmented/alternate reality game) using the site NextFrictionalGame.com, Frictional Games revealed to Joystiq that their next game will be called Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs. The original link to a map of China on the first iteration of the website was the first clue that inevitably led fans to the conclusion that the game will be a cooperative venture. Frictional has now revealed the game is being developed with the help of thechineseroom, whose name you may recognize as the developer behind the recently released Dear Esther.
A Machine For Pigs will be set in London, 1899, about 60 years after Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Industrial tycoon Oswald Mandus is in a stupor after months of feverish dreams of a dark machine, and now he’s trying to figure out what happened. The ARG site did also reveal an intended release window of fall 2012 on PC – with Mac and Linux to follow – and the team is of course aiming for Halloween. But aside from those minor tidbits, the only thing set in stone is that it will be a first-person horror game with the express purpose to terrify you.
Source: Joystiq
