Blair Witch gets fresh gameplay trailer

Lionsgate Games and Bloober Team have released the first full gameplay trailer for their Blair Witch game, based on the 1999 horror film The Blair Witch Project, and here we can see the type of horror that awaits after the game was first revealed at Microsoft's E3 conference.

You can see the trailer and some new screenshots down below, featuring a house eerily reminiscent of the one seen at the conclusion of the original film (no spoilers, that's all we'll say), as well as your dog Bullet, who you can command using an in-game wheel. There's even a little bit of combat, but mostly this is about exploration and atmosphere.

Recently one of the film's directors Daniel Myrick said to NME said that they have plenty of ideas for sequels, so we may well be seeing more of the franchise in the future.

"Oh, we had tonnes of ideas. We pitched them to Lionsgate. We even wrote a sequel script," he said. "Just for whatever reason, it didn't spark with the studio and they went in another direction with it. But you know, we're still holding out hope that they'll come back to the original guys and maybe entertain one of our ideas. I always thought that the mythology we created was almost episodic. We've always wanted to explore the story of Elly Kedward [the 18th Century witch in the mythology], sort of in the tone of The VVitch from a few years ago. I've always thought there was a great, stand alone [Burkittsville serial killer] Rustin Parr film. I don't think they'll all have to be found footage films either. Go with the Marvel approach. You can tell all these stories within one universe. The audience base is there..."

Will you be heading into the woods when the game releases on August 30?