Supermassive Trademarks Five More Dark Pictures Games

Update, 11/17/2022:

Supermassive Games had filed several trademarks earlier this year for games which many believed were part of the Dark Pictures series. Directive 8020 was one of the games. Now, with The Devil In Me out tomorrow, it has been confirmed that Directive 8020 will be next. The Dark Pictures’ Season 2 premiere will take place. 

The following news is from GameTrailersThe Devil In Me released the trailer teaser trailer to Directive 8020. This is in keeping with tradition. Destructoid.

Check out the teaser trailer for The Dark Pictures: Directive 8020 for yourself below: 

You can see that Directive 8020 is the series’ first foray into sci-fi horror. It seems like this game will soon be in. Alien territory. Destructoid notes that Directive 8020 is a real directive used by NASA issued for “biological contamination control for outbound and inbound planetary spacecraft.” This gives us an idea of the issues we are dealing with. It will be only time to find out. Directive 8020 is not yet available. The wait for Season 2 could prove to be even longer, considering that Season 1 was released at the same time. 

The Dark Pictures Season 1 finale “The Devil In Me” is available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. 

Below is the original story…

Original Story, February 1, 2022

Supermassive Games began its anthology horror series, The Dark Pictures, in 2019 with Man of Medan, and since then, it’s released a new entry every year. Little Hope came out in 2020. House of Ashes was published last year. 

The Devil In Me is up to bat next, and that game will serve as the season finale of The Dark Pictures’ first season. Supermassive Games has semi-revealed Switchback as a trademark. In the same fashion, five more games are now available. 

What’s interesting is that Supermassive Games has long referred to The Dark Pictures as an eight-game series. This brings the total to 10. The total number of trademarks now stands at 10. Supermassive Gaming knows. For now, we have a pretty good idea of what the next five games after Switchback will be, thanks to a new trademark filing spotted by Twitter user The MarmoladeAccording to Gematsu:

• Directive 8020: The Dark Pictures
• The Dark Pictures: The Craven Man
• Intercession: Dark Pictures
• Winterfold: The Dark Pictures
• The Dark Pictures: Death

And here’s a slideshow featuring images of each trademarked logo: 

For most of these, it’s tough to piece together exactly what the game is about, which makes sense considering all we know is the possible names. Some games are simpler than others. Directive 8020, for example, seems to suggest a future sci-fi horror movie. The Craven Man may be similar in concept to The Wicker Man. 

We might not know what they are yet, but you can read our thoughts about the series so far. Game Informer’sReview of Man of Medan, Little Hope, and House of Ashes. 

[Source: Gematsu]

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