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{{Infobox video game
| title = Insane
| image = InSANE logo.jpg
| developer = [[Company:Volition|Volition]]
| publisher = [[Company:THQ|THQ]]
| director = Guillermo del Toro
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| engine = Unreal Engine 3
| platforms = [[Software:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]]<br />[[Engineering:PlayStation 3|PlayStation 3]]<br />[[Engineering:Xbox 360|Xbox 360]]
| released = Cancelled
| genre = [[Software:Survival horror|Survival horror]]
| modes = [[Software:Single-player video game|Single-player]]
}}

'''''Insane''''' (stylized as '''''inSANE''''') was a [[Software:Survival horror|survival horror]] [[Engineering:Video game|video game]], formerly in development by [[Company:Volition|Volition]] to be published by [[Company:THQ|THQ]], in collaboration with film director Guillermo del Toro.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1139829p1.html | title= Guillermo del Toro goes Insane | last=Goldstein | first=Hilary | date=11 December 2010 | publisher=IGN | access-date=11 December 2010 }}</ref> It was being developed for [[Software:Microsoft Windows|Microsoft Windows]], [[Engineering:PlayStation 3|PlayStation 3]] and [[Engineering:Xbox 360|Xbox 360]], and was to be released in 2013. It was intended as the first installment of a planned trilogy of ''Insane'' video games.<ref name= "press release">{{cite web | url=http://investor.thq.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96376&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1506774&highlight= | title=THQ and Oscar-Winning Writer and Director Guillermo del Toro to create inSANE Trilogy of Original Video Games | type=Press Release | date=13 December 2010 | publisher=[[Company:THQ|THQ]] | access-date=14 December 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209170137/http://investor.thq.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96376&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1506774&highlight= | archive-date=9 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Development==
''Insane'' was first announced by del Toro and Volition at the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards on 11 December 2010 in the form of a thirty-second teaser trailer.<ref name="InsaneGameSpot">{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/news/del-toros-insane-to-be-a-trilogy-6285306|title=Del Toro's Insane to be a trilogy|last=Makuch|first=Eddie|publisher=GameSpot|date=13 December 2010|access-date=3 February 2013}}</ref> Del Toro said of the game, "With this new series of video games, I want to take players to a place they have never seen before, where every single action makes them question their own senses of morality and reality. THQ and Volition are equally excited to make this vision of a completely new game universe into a reality."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/13/insane-trilogy-game-rights-held-by-thq-del-toro-keeps-movie-rig/ | title=inSane trilogy game rights held by THQ, del Toro keeps movie rights | last=Ransom-Wiley | first=James | date=13 December 2010 | publisher=Joystiq | access-date=14 December 2010 }}</ref>

THQ announced the cancellation of ''Insane'' on 6 August 2012, with the [[Social:Intellectual property|intellectual property]] rights transferring to del Toro.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.giantbomb.com/news/thq-cancels-insane-rights-transfer-to-del-toro/4317/ | title=THQ Cancels InSane, Rights Transfer to Del Toro | last=Klepek | first=Patrick | date=6 August 2012 | publisher=Giant Bomb | access-date=6 August 2012 }}</ref> Reasons for the cancellation was never officially disclosed, however THQ would file for bankruptcy just five months later.

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