While playing Outlast, did you wonder what exactly happened at Mount Massive Asylum before you arrived? When you weren't busy hiding from murderous creatures dead-set on tearing you limb from limb, that is? Developer Red Barrels have announced their first DLC for the game, which is designed to fill in some of those gaps.

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Quick on the heels of some excellent news for PlayStation Plus subscribers – that a bunch of great games are heavily discounted alongside a free copy of BioShock Infinite – comes even more good news. Red Barrels’ horror game, Outlast, will be free for PlayStation Plus users when it debuts on PlayStation 4 in February.

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The upcoming add-on content for survival horror title Outlast is a prequel in which players step into the shoes of the anonymous tipster who set off the main game's chain of events, developer Red Barrels announced.

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First-person horror-fest Outlast is getting some DLC, developer Red Barrels has announced. Little is known about this add-on content, but it will feature a new protagonist and storyline centered around the "terrifying secrets that lie at the heart of Mount Massive Asylum." More details will be revealed on Halloween.

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Well, today marks the release of one of the scariest games I've played in some time. Yeah, I'm talking about Outlast. The game is out now on Steam, for a mere $20. That really isn't too bad for a short-yet-scary experience.

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Red Barrels' survival horror title Outlast will launch for Windows PC through Steam on Sept. 4, the developer announced today. The game will be available through Valve's service for $19.99. During Sony's E3 press conference in June, it was announced that Outlast will launch on PlayStation 4, making its console debut on Sony's next-gen platform. The release date for the PS4 version is still unannounced.

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Thwacke, a group of researchers and scientists providing insights to the gaming industry, and Red Barrels have announced a partnership through which Thwacke is contributing real-world data on mental illness and how humans experience terror to create an authentic experience in Outlast, the PC survival-horror game set in the Mount Massive Insane Asylum.

“The survival horror genre has seen many changes over the years, but the core is always a cerebral experience that capitalizes on anxiety and startles the player,” said Dr. Maral Tajerian Ph.D., neuroscientist and pain researcher. “Due to the background of certain patients in the Outlast asylum, there are a lot of interesting behaviors that could be unsettling to a player. We believe there is tremendous space to help Red Barrels get creative beyond portraying asylum patients as thugs.”
                                                                   
“By providing us with research and insights on criminally-insane patients, as well as historical asylum layouts and techniques, Thwacke is helping us make Outlast’s gameplay both scary and scientifically grounded,” said Philippe Morin, Red Barrels co-founder. “The more grounded it is, the more believable the world we’re building will be.”

The traditionally oppressive atmosphere of an asylum did not typically start and end with the mentally ill; another factor was the often-questionable research carried out by asylum caretakers. In order to immerse the player in this atmosphere, the team at Red Barrels has taken full advantage of history by translating several aspects of real-world research facilities into Outlast.

“We think with an accurate depiction of facilities, we’ll be able to explain more methods to the madness happening in Outlast,” added Kevin Neibert, pharmacologist.

"They've been a seemingly bottomless font of everything I need for this story: psychoses, paranoia, and violent perversion,” said J.T. Petty, Outlast scriptwriter. “With their experience in psychology and emerging technologies, Thwacke has brought the ideas we reveal frighteningly close to the realm of the possible."

In equally exciting news, Red Barrels will be demoing Outlast later this month at PAX East. More details about their attendance, as well as the demo, will be announced next week.

Red Barrels have released an extended trailer for the survival-horror PC title Outlast. The trailer reveals footage of the happenings within Mount Massive Asylum, a facility owned by the Murkof Corporation and the setting of the game.