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Here’s the “Friday the 13th: The Game” Release Date!!
The wait is almost over and it will be over soon. Grab your pitchfork, machete or whatever, and prepare for Gun Media’s “Friday the 13th: The Game” on May 26th, 2017!
The game will launch on Xbox One, PS4 and Steam as a digital download for $40USD, which means most of us should have no excuse to be playing together release week.
This is a huge deal because “Friday the 13th: The Game” remains canon, so much so that there’s even a special version of Jason Voorhees, created by Tom Savini, designed to continue the story after Jason went to Hell.
For the purists out there, Kane Hodder performed the motion capture for Jason, while the great Harry Manfredini provided the music! For the first time since 1989, you have the opportunity to finally be Jason Voorhees; stalk camp counselors across Crystal Lake as Jason, or assume the role of a helpless camper and attempt to survive the night.
Oh, and there’s a badass new trailer that shows the characters and wide variety of Jasons, as well as the kills, weapons, locations, and so much more.
Gun Media and developer Illfonic’s “Friday the 13th: The Game”, initially announced as “Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp”, was funded through Kickstarter back in 2015.
[Related] Montage of Kills From the “Friday the 13th” Game!
In addition, the game’s full multiplayer component includes Tommy Jarvis as a playable character. Movie setting Packanack Lodge will also be included in this release as a third playable map. This initial release will be followed by the full Summer 2017 release of the single-player component, including AI Bots.
The movie may be dead, yet…
JASON LIVES!
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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August
We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.
A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.
Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.
Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”
“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.
“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”