The world is coming to an end and it looks like its ending in style with the “leak” and eventually coming clean of THQ Nordic that Darksiders III is officially happening.

Darksiders III Trailer

So the original story was that the trailer and some key artworks were leaked online which prompted Gunfire Games and THQ Nordic to tap IGN to do all the important stuff. Good job in damage control.

Amazon.com is to blame for the leak. They placed this on their website:

• Play as FURY – a mage who must rely on her whip and magic to restore the balance between good and evil on Earth!
• Harness FURY’s magic to unleash her various forms – each granting her access to new weapons, moves and traversal abilities
• Explore an open-ended, living, free-form game world in which FURY moves back and forth between environments to uncover secrets while advancing the story
• Defeat the Seven Deadly Sins and their servants who range from mystical creatures to degenerated beings
• Darksiders signature art style – expansive post-apocalyptic environments that take the player from the heights of heaven to the depths of hell, dilapidated by war and decay and overrun by nature

Anyway here’s how THQ Nordic describes the third game in the Darksiders franchise:

Return to an apocalyptic planet Earth in Darksiders III, a hack-n-slash action adventure where players take on the role of FURY in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The Charred Council calls upon Fury to battle from the heights of heaven down through the depths of hell in a quest to restore humanity and prove that she is the most powerful of the Horsemen. As a mage, FURY relies on her whip and magic to restore the balance between good and evil. The expansive, Darksiders III game world is presented as an open-ended, living, free-form planet Earth that is dilapidated by war and decay, and overrun by nature. FURY will move back and forth between environments to uncover secrets while advancing the Darksiders III story.

No official release date has been shared but they are reporting that Darksiders III will be out by 2018.