Shocked? Who isn't? But considering that Nibris actually has a website running and a page for their title Sadness, kind of seems legit now. Am I right? Oh and the public viewing of Sadness is at hand. It won't be at E3, but it is going to Leizpig...err LezPiggle...I mean Lepizig.



It is your typical site with company motto. "Look at pictures of us doing our job and if you want come work for us if you gots the talents. Do you have what it takets to make invisible games?" I gues more importantly you have to know if you like to feel it or not.

As well as them and Sadness there are other parts of the site including the "Work for Hire" Bloober team. This team is designed to do high quality AAA titles for the Wii and DS. They also do...

- Porting existing games for DS and Wii - we can perform fast conversions of already existing games that will take advantage of unique controlling hardware for both DS and Wii consoles
- Wii-ware games development - we are ready to develop small Wii-ware games within several months
- Wii and DS titles - we can develop normal, full priced titles for both Nintendo DS and Wii consoles that will meet both market and publishers expectations for reasonably prices

They even have some concept images from pre-production work.



I don't know what helicopter game that is but it looks sweet.

More info on Bloober team here.

There is also some more blurbage on why someone should pick THEM over other companies. But it is not as much for the gamers as it is for publishers and other developers I suppose.



Anyways, now what we all have been waiting for...




There isn't too much listed. We got the Wii platform, Mature rating, Fall 2009 release date, and Horror genre. But they included a description...

The study of fear and the borders of human imagination... A trip to the darkest corners of consciousness, in all of us... A trip to the hell of the subconscious and not necessarily to return...

This gothic horror (atmosphere) is not the game of the action. If you're counting on shooting, litres of blood and piles of dead bodies then unfortunately you won't find this here. We are preparing for a mood which will not leave you till the very end of the game. An irregular scenario decides on such issues as schizophrenia or narcolepsy. Apart from an extremely complex and rich-in-the-shocking-factor scenario, the power of our production is innovative use of the Wii controller.

Sadness is black and white psychological horror game in which you control Maria - Victorian age aristocrat trying to protect her 8 year old, blind son from monsters trying to get him. Action is set on the verge of XIX and XX century, in ruins in woods of Russian Empire. Entire game focus on psychological aspects of fear and player interactions with Alexander.

And for those who don't know Roman Numerals, that is 19th and 20th Century.

Unfortunately no trailer yet although they say maybe this vacation which translates to...summer? But there are three tiny screenshots. Luckily two of them have been floating around the internet a little while.




Interesting, sadly I don't have the third image enlarged and rather too lazy to go looking for it. That just means you have to squint if you really want to see it.





So is Sadness vaporware? You decide but I guess we won't know for sure until Litelzpigz in Germany this year. But I'd like to think it isn't. Do you think you will feel it?

For all your heckling, flamebait, vaporware jokes, go to the Nibris website.