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‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ Virtual Cabin Gets a Jason Exhibit
Developer Illfonic is making good on their promise to expand on the nifty Virtual Cabin pre-order incentive for Friday the 13th: The Game that basically functions as a fully standalone developer diary, complete with rooms to explore, assets to interact with, and a radio that plays developer commentary and samples of the game’s soundtrack. You can get access to it right now for as little as $15, but it is currently only available on PC.
The first major content update rolled out recently, adding an entire museum dedicated to the many flavors of Jason Voorhees, including 3D models of the various wardrobe changes he’s experimented with during his decades-long career as a militant activist for teen abstinence.
“We’ve built this cabin using assets that will be in the game, from the free time of the development team without additional funding,” reads a post on the game’s Steam page. “This is a bit of a passion project to help us show you guys what we’re working on, give you access to the look and feel of the world we’re building and it will continually be updated and improved upon as we get closer to launch!”
Minimum Recommended Specs:
Windows 7, 8, 10
2.0 GHz Dual-Core 64-bit CPU
8GB Memory
DirectX 11 Compatible GPU with 2GB Video RAM
3GB Hard Disk Space
Friday the 13th: The Game arrives this October for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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