In a move that really shouldn’t surprise anyone who is familiar with the Five Nights at Freddy’s series by now, creator Scott Cawthon has confirmed that he is going to be releasing the forth game; the so-called “Final Chapter” earlier than the teasers have been suggesting.

A number of Youtubers including Razzbowski and Dawko have been showing off e-mails that seem to be from Scott Cawthon’s personal e-mail account confirming the fact. In a video to announce the release date change Dawko says that Cawthon has been talking to them about whether to do any early release or not eventually deciding to release the forth game on August 8th to celebrate the one year anniversary of the original FNAF 1 game. He also says that the game’s trailer will also be finished some time next week.

Cawthon has a habit of releasing the FNAF sequels early, having first done it with the second game releasing the full version shortly after sending out the demo version for lets play videos to the surprise of all. This time around the players have some pre-warning about the date change but Scott has said that he will be releasing some extra content on the original release date of Halloween just to honor it.

Teasers have been plentiful for the forth game, starting with an image of a spotlight illuminating the top hat of the titular character that popped up on the scottgames.com site and seemed to signal that FNAF3 was the end of the line. When the hat vanished a few months later people began to wonder if it was the end only for a few days later to find a new teaser image of a ‘nightmare’ version of the Freddy Fazbear animatronic character.