The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes has got a new trailer and a release date which is October 22nd, just in time for some Halloween scares. The new trailer is narrated but the ever excellent P
27/05/21
It’s almost time to return to the The Dark Pictures Anthology and this time we’re going underground to the House of Ashes. Like previous title in the anthology series, House of Ashes is based on real world legends; Man of Medan was based on the story of the Ourang Medan, Little Hope explored the Salem and Andover witch trials, but House of Ashes goes back much further in time to uncover its creatures that are lurk in the darkness.
Despite the source of its ancient horror, the game itself is set in the year 2003, near the end of the the Second Iraq War. A team comprising of the C.I.A., Air Force, and U.S. Special Forces, is trawling the Middle East hunting for those elusive weapons of mass destruction we all heard about at the time, sniffing around for an underground chemical weapons depot that has been located by a satellite scanning the area. Obviously there’s no WMDs to be found, but they do find something else.