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“All Things Wicked” Chapter for ‘Dead By Daylight’ Now Available [Trailer]
Today’s the day we finally get an answer of sorts to what exactly is The Unknown in “All Things Wicked”, the latest chapter for Dead by Daylight from Behaviour Interactive. Available now on PC and consoles, “All Things Wicked” brings a new Killer in The Unknown, along with a new Survivor in Sable Ward into The Fog, along with a new Map in Greenville Square.
In keeping with the mysteriousness of The Unknown, the background of the new Killer is “believed to be a mysterious evil so heinous that investigating it almost immediately invited death.” As mentioned in the previous reveal of the new chapter, The Unknown is able to launch a projectile of unknown origin, leaving behind a toxic area where it lands. Once it lands a hit, it becomes Unbound, which allows it to quickly leap through windows. It has an Unforseen ability that when kicking a generator, your Terror Radius transfers to that generator, allowing you to become undetectable. Finally, there’s Undone, which allows you to Gain Tokens whenever a Survivor misses a Skill Check. Damaging a generator consumes all tokens, and for each token consumed, the generator loses 1% total progress and becomes blocked for 1 second.
As for the new Survivor, Sable is equipped with a book of Invocations, which grants her the ability to cast Invocation: Weaving Spiders. While the task demands some time to complete, once it’s finished, all players are granted a boost to their Repair progress. The trade-off being that all players are Injured and Broken for the remainder of the Trial. Sable is also to use Strength in Shadows to heal without a medkit, while her Wicked ability allows her to get herself unhooked.
Dead by Daylight, is available now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store.
Overshadowing the announcement of Ninja Theory’s third entry in the Hellblade series earlier this month were reports that the developer was facing possible closure by Microsoft, alongside South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games and Double Fine. Now according to a new story by GamesBeat, another developer under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella is potentially facing closure in Undead Labs, who are currently working on State of Decay 3.
Earlier this month, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had announced that Microsoft was in the process of ‘resetting’ Xbox. That resulted in a report by Bloomberg during Summer Game Fest that revealed that multiple developers were negotiating with Microsoft to spin off of Xbox to avoid closing down. Now, according to the GamesBeat report, Undead Labs is now part of that group of developers negotiating to be bought to avoid layoffs.
The article states that Undead Labs could lose 110 jobs if it were shut down, while Compulsion could lose 90 jobs, Ninja Theory could lose 135 jobs, and Double Fine Productions could lose 100 jobs.
Other developers and publishers at Microsoft also reportedly face cuts, including Blizzard, id Software and Bethesda.
Undead Labs was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, with State of Decay 3 being announced in 2020. News on the development of the game was quiet until 2024, when a new trailer was released. Updates on the game again were hard to come by until last January when then-Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan revealed that development was still very much alive. That was followed up this month with an official announcement that State of Decay 3 would be coming next year to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.