Jason is the next Dead by Daylight killer

Jason is the subsequent killer coming to Dead by Daylight, Behaviour has introduced, additionally confirming a sixteenth June launch date for the horror movie icon.

“The masks is on. The machete is dripping. The bloodbath has begun,” the trailer blurb reads.

It’s nice to see the Friday the 13th icon showing in Useless by Daylight, a sport which is celebrating its tenth anniversary this yr, and this announcement does make us suppose again to the early days. Whereas it launched again in 2016, it was the 2017 console launch that noticed it going toe-to-toe with none apart from Jason himself, with Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation arriving only a month prematurely. Whereas that sport was slowed down in licensing points, DBD has carved out a distinct segment for itself in a means that lets them add tons of recent characters from all method of horror and horror-adjacent IPs.

The curio right here is that there’s no point out of Friday the thirteenth, simply Jason. We’ll have to attend for extra particulars to be revealed to see how far Behaviour is ready to faucet into the broader movie franchise for inspirations.