Details on a new project being promoted as a spiritual successor to the acclaimed 2002 Gamecube horror game Eternal Darkness have emerged by way of a report on IGN, describing "Shadow of the Eternals" as being in the works at a new Canadian studio called Precursor Games.

Internet sleuthing courtesy of NeoGAF uncovered a google cache version of the studio's official website, that has since expired, but included the following synopsis of the game:

In Shadow of the Ancients, we follow the investigations of Detective Paul Becker, who is called to one of the bloodiest massacres in Louisiana state history. Only two survivors remain from a brutal conflict between two rival cults at the abandoned Pleasant View Sanitarium: one a suave, clean-cut business man – and the other a hardened, rogue-like biker.

Both men have seemingly lost all memory of who they are – and yet they are compelled to kill each other. As Becker begins his interrogations of the suspects, their combined recollections create the world of Shadow of the Ancients.

You play Paul Becker, a Louisiana police detective. You also play Clara Rusznyák, a handmaiden to the noblewoman, Erzébet Bathory.

The cached page also described the game as a series of 12 episodes with 2-4 hours of gameplay each, and features "sanity effects" in the vein of Eternal Darkenss.

The slip up appeared to prompt IGN to further reveal that Shadow of the Eternals is targeting PC and Wii U in late 2014, and that Silicon Knights', and Eternal Darkness lead, Dennis Dyack is serving as Chief Creative Officer on the game, and it is widely presumed that the Precursor Games team is largely comprised of former Silicon Knights staff.

A crowdfunding pledge drive is expected to kick off tomorrow, where we'll likely learn much more about the game and the people involved. Watch the trailer below.