Bathesda reveals The Evil Within's required PC specs

The release dates for Bethesda's upcoming console and PC horror game, the Evil Within, is drawing closer and the publisher has released the recommended specifications for PC. The specs were revealed on the Bethesda blog, and the publisher insisted that they are not the minimum specs, but rather recommended ones. Despite that,a minimum of 4GB of video ram is still required.

If your computer can run the specs you see below, you'll have the gameplay experience that the developers at Tango Gameworks intended, Bethesda says. Regarding minimum system specs, Bethesda writes, "We do not have a list of minimum requirements for the game."

Recommended PC system specifications:

• 64-bit Windows 7/Windows 8
• i7 with four-plus cores
• 4 GB RAM
• 50 GB of hard drive space (50 GB needed for install, but game will actually only take up around 41 GB of hard drive space, Bethesda says)
• GeForce GTX 670 or equivalent with 4 GB of VRAM
• High-speed internet connection
• Steam account

Bethesda has also announced the install sizes for the console versions of The Evil Within:

• Xbox One -- 40 GB
• PlayStation 4 -- 40 GB
• PlayStation 3 -- 7 GB
• Xbox 360 -- 7 GB (game must be installed to HDD or a USB 2.0 or higher flash drive)

It was also announced today that The Evil Within has gone gold today. For the newbies, that mean’s that development on the game is over and it is now being pressed into discs for distribution. We leave you here with its scary trailer: