#Gaming NEWS! Friday the 13th: The Game on Kickstarter

After the announcement of a possible Friday the 13th: The Game from original creator Sean S. Cunningham a few months ago to tie into the upcoming Friday the 13th TV show and new theatrical movie, we now learn they ran into some trouble and need our help...!

The game is going to be an "asymmetrical" experience, 7 players vs. 1, and planned to be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. The idea is to have a super strong invicible slasher Jason go against a bunch of camp counselors characters. Survive or be killed.

They apparently also had plans for single-player campaigns based on the different Friday the 13th films. Which sounds... ambitious to say the least, but wait and see. The problem is that Gun Media, the developers, just lost their publsihing partner. So now the game is on Kickstater asking for $700,000!

Check it out!





The project is slowly taking off as I write these words.

They will get Kane Hodder in this, somehow. (Since Jason doesn't really talk much.. are they giving him a secondary character to voice or just motion capture??) And Tom Savini to help come up with some creative kills.

The game was originally planned for an Halloween 2015 release, but they can't make that release date no more. Now it's aimed for a fall 2016 release.

#Gaming NEWS! A new Friday the 13th game!!

Oh, yeah!

I forgot to post this the other week.

A new Friday the 13th game was just announced recently, it will be the first Friday the 13th game in over 25 Years!!!

(The last time we saw a pixelated Jason Voorhees was on the NES!!!)

The game is expected to feature co-op, one way or another. A competitive multiplayer mode (prey vs. predator mode?) and hopefully a singleplayer mode too. And it will see a group of survivors trying to face the unkillable boogeyman Jason, of course.

It's currently simply titled "Friday the 13th" and aimed for an October 2015 release, on all kinds current systems.

Sean S. Cunningham has recently re-acquired the entire rights to his franchise, following Anchor Bay's "reboot". And he's currently working on getting a new Friday the 13th film in theaters and a Friday the 13th television series is being developed at the moment - and this time it will actually be focused on Jason. And from the looks of it, he hopes to get it all tied together. Here's a bit he said regarding this new game:

“With a new television series on the horizon and plans announced for the thirteenth installment of the film franchise, we felt the timing was right to finally explore Jason, Camp Crystal Lake, and the rest of the Friday the 13th story in interactive form,” explains Sean S. Cunningham, creator of the original film that is credited by many as the genesis of the slasher/horror genre. “We have some exciting new ideas for a game that supplies plenty of replay value, while delivering the kinds of thrills and scares that fans of the franchise have come to expect.”

From what he said, there's an actual experienced game studio working on this project.

Personally I'm loving the sounds of all that so far!

Following the huge success of Alien Isolation and Evil Within last year, it looks like the return of proper Survival Horror games made the slasher genre finally work in games. Along this Friday the 13th game here let's not forget the upcoming announced titles for this year: Until Dawn, Splatter Camp, Summer Camp and Last Year. It sounds like 2015 will be the year of the Slasher Horror genre in gaming!!

Here's Until Dawn's trailer:



The Friday the 13th one better have a fun 1980s vibe to make it stand out! Can't wait for this!!

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1PanelReview DeepStar Six

In 1989, 5 (no less!) horror films taking place underwater and seeing a crew face some supernatural danger while testing the strength of their teams were released simultaneously, one after the other.

These films were in theatrical release order: DeepStar Six, Leviathan, Lords of the Deep, The Evil Below and finally The Abyss.

This is one of them.

MR Freddy vs Jason

Out of all the modern generation of "monsters", Jason Voorhees' always been my personal favorite. With Freddy Krueger a close second.

If others like Michael Myers could be simply described as a pretty straightforward boogeyman, the embodiment of pure evil, Freddy as a "child molester/killer" was a more personal evil, the one that got after you. While Jason as a kid born with a deformity-turned slasher was a more sympathetic evil, a vengeful one.

When word got out they were crossing over both these pop culture icon back in the day, many of us longtime fans saw the chance to finally get a pretty terrifying horror film that would present us a "best of" the genre...

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 Re-Animator series
Hack/Slash Vol. 1&2 / Vol. 3 Friday the 31st
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MR:Quickies Friday the 13th movie series

Happy Halloween!
And what better way than with everyone's favorite serial killer?
Huh..I mean slasher, Jason Voorhees!

So let's have a look at the whole main series.
See if you should score some Friday the 13th movies today, and what best episodes to pick for the evening~