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‘Friday the 13th’ Composer Harry Manfredini Involved in New Video Game Adaptation?
With the rights to the Friday the 13th franchise finally starting to clear up and a new TV series headed to Peacock next year, you’re probably wondering where that leaves any future video game adaptations of the franchise. Well, according to longtime series composer Harry Manfredini, there’s apparently something new in the works as we speak.
RelyOnHorror‘s William Lockwood recently attended Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco’s Crystal Lake Reunion event, where he met up with Manfredini to talk about his experiences composing the scores for the Friday the 13th series, as well as the 2017 game by IllFonic and Gun Interactive.
According to Manfredini, he’ll be working on the music for a new, as yet unannounced Friday the 13th game!
Manfredini says that the new game is being developed by a different developer this time around, and will feature “more realistic looking” characters. It will also apparently not be in the asymmetrical multiplayer vein of the previous game, though he couldn’t elaborate on the details.
This is about all anyone knows at the present time about this new game, so it’s something we’ll have to keep an eye on.
Meanwhile, Gun Interactive is in the midst of developing The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which is set to launch for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam on August 18. It will also be available day one on Xbox Game Pass.
If you haven’t gotten your fill of Backrooms games yet after the success of the Kane Parsons film, Cortez Productions and Perp Games are here to fix that, launching The Backrooms: Lost Tape today on PlayStation 5. Originally released on Steam back in 2022, The Backrooms: Lost Tape ushers you back, quite literally, into the movie theatre.
Separated into two chapters (tapes), you’ll first play as an usher, Josh, who accidentally falls into the Backrooms. As you explore, you will be desperately trying to unravel the mysteries of the intertwined, sprawling yellow rooms to find any means of escape. Each empty space may not be as empty as it seems… malevolent entities stand in your way of freedom.
With the second tape, in an intense mission to find out what happened to Josh, more of the haunting story starts to unfold. Take a deeper dive into the unsettling and eerie world as Nikolas, as this chapter introduces its own unique challenges. Will Nikolas ever discover its secrets and find out what happened to Josh?
The PlayStation 5 release of The Backrooms: Lost Tape coincides with a major update for the Steam version, which has seen the game upgraded to Unreal Engine 5.6. That also entails updated visuals, full controller support, and various bug fixes.