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‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ Celebrates Anniversary With New Updates

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Fans of Friday the 13th: The Game are finally getting some major wishes granted starting this Thursday. This week marks the games one-year anniversary since it was first released to the public.

The game has seen its fair share of trouble. Connection errors and faulty glitches have enraged even the most hardcore fans of the franchise. However, as time has passed, improvements have seemed to slowly better some of its worst qualities.

Thursday will bring a new update to Friday the 13th: The Game that fans have been begging to see come alive for quite some time.

The announcement of the new addition of Single Player Challenges (and more!) came via the official twitter account of Friday the 13th: The Game.

Saturday would mark the official one-year date, amping up this special anniversary to be a killer good time.

Besides the promising single player challenges, the massive update will include new content and features. Unlike updates in the past, this one is much bigger, expanding the single-player game mode. Some of the features included are:

A new camp counselor named Victoria Sterling, new Roy skins, upgraded Jason grab, AI Improvements, a rework of part 7 Jason, PC key-binding, a finished version of the Salt Mines update, Jason weapon selection, and more. A graphical engine update will aim to better the graphics as well.

Gun Media released a clip last month teasing the updated rendering process.

This update is free of charge and will be available this Thursday (May 24th) on all platforms.

Not only will there be bug fixes and new ways to kill those pesky counselors, Gun Media is also rolling out some extra XP and Tape Drops from May 24th to the 29th.

This XP will come in handy since new features and versions of Jason can only be unlocked when your XP is high enough.

Now let’s get into some of the updates in more detail.

The Salt Mine seems to poke fun at some of the sore losers of the online video game. A Gun Media community leader broke down what exactly the Salt Mines entail on the Friday the 13th: The Game official website forum.

“We all know how excruciating it is to play a match, snatch up a counselor, and – BAM! – ‘the host has left’ pops up on the screen,” wrote Community Admin ShiftySamurai on a post. “It’s annoying. It’s INFURIATING. It’s an issue that players have been experiencing, and telling us about, for a while now. But what do we do about salty players who can’t take the fact that they are losing? We give them Salt, with a Capital S”.

ShiftySamurai goes on to explain:

“Salt is a currency, only instead of being able to buy something cool with it, you buy an express ticket to the Salt Mines. More on that in a minute. Earning Salt is EASY! Just do any of the following:

  1. Leave a match early, like a jerk
  2. Leave a match while being killed, like a big jerk
  3. Leave a match as Jason, like a super jerk
  4. Leave a match while hosting, like a mega jerk”.

The Salt Mines will be a place of limbo where Salty players will be casted and forced to queue up with only other salty quitters. Salty players will be able to play anyone in private matches but can only participate in quick play while in the mines with others.

But don’t worry, if you are one of these salty players, salt will apparently go away with time. That is, if you do not continue to accumulate more salt.

The ability to switch weapons and deaths between different Jason skins will only be available once you reach level 113.

With that being said, it looks like only the dedicated fans of Friday the 13th: The Game will benefit from this ability. However, with all these new features being added onto the game, it’s never too late to start racking up those kill points.

So, dust of your hockey mask, grab your worn-out boots and get ready to crack open some camp counseling skulls during the Friday the 13th: The Game Launch Anniversary Spectacular!

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‘Immaculate’ Stars Reveal Which Horror Villains They Would “F, Marry, Kill”

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Sydney Sweeney is just coming off the success of her rom-com Anyone But You, but she’s ditching the love story for a horror story in her latest film Immaculate.

Sweeney is taking Hollywood by storm, portraying everything from a love-lusting teenager in Euphoria to an accidental superhero in Madame Web. Although the latter got a lot of hate among theater-goers, Immaculate is getting the polar opposite.

The film was screened at SXSW this past week and was well-received. It also gained a reputation for being extremely gory. Derek Smith of Slant says the, “final act contains some of the most twisted, gory violence this particular subgenre of horror has seen in years…”

Thankfully curious horror movie fans won’t have to wait long to see for themselves what Smith is talking about as Immaculate will hit theaters across the United States on March, 22.

Bloody Disgusting says that the movie’s distributor NEON, in a bit of marketing smarts, had stars Sydney Sweeney and Simona Tabasco play a game of “F, Marry, Kill” in which all their choices had to be horror movie villains.

It’s an interesting question, and you might be surprised at their answers. So colorful are their responses that YouTube slapped an age-restricted rating on the video.

Immaculate is a religious horror movie that NEON says stars Sweeney, “as Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, embarking on a new journey in a remote convent in the picturesque Italian countryside. Cecilia’s warm welcome quickly devolves into a nightmare as it becomes clear her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.”

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‘Terminator: Survivors’: Open World Survival Game Releases Trailer And Is Launching This Fall

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This is a game that many gamers will be excited for. It was announced at the Nacon Connect 2024 Event that Terminator: Survivors will be launching early access for PC via Steam on October 24th of this year. It will launch fully on a later date for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Check out the trailer and more about the game below.

Official Trailer for Terminator: Survivors

IGN states, “In this original story taking place after the first two Terminator films, you take control of a group of survivors of Judgment Day, in solo or co-op mode, faced with a multitude of lethal hazards in this post-apocalyptic world. But you’re not alone. Skynet’s machines will hound you relentlessly and rival human factions will fight for the same resources you desperately need.”

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In related news to the Terminator world, Linda Hamilton stated I’m done. I’m done. I have nothing more to say. The story’s been told, and it’s been done to death. Why anybody would relaunch it is a mystery to me. She claims she doesn’t want to play Sarah Connor anymore. You can check out more of what she said here.

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An open-world game about surviving against Skynet’s machines sounds like an interesting and fun game. Are you excited about this announcement and trailer release from Nacon? Let us know in the comments below. Also, check out this behind-the-scenes clip from the game below.

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New ‘Paranormal Activity’ Entry Isn’t a Movie, but “It’s Going to Be Intense” [Teaser Video]

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If you were expecting another Paranormal Activity sequel to be a feature film you’d be surprised. Maybe there will be one, but for now, Variety reports that DreadXP co-director and creative director Brian Clarke (DarkStone Digital) are creating a video game based on the series.

“We are thrilled to work with Paramount Game Studios and to have the opportunity to bring the world of ‘Paranormal Activity’ to gamers everywhere,” Epic Pictures CEO and DreadXP producer Patrick Ewald told Variety. “The films are steeped in rich lore and creative scares, and under the stewardship of creative director Brian Clarke, DreadXP’s ‘Paranormal Activity’ video game will honor those core tenets and offer horror fans one of our most terrifying games yet.” 

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Clarke, who worked on the horror video game The Mortuary Assistant said the Paranormal Activity franchise shows just how much reach a genre-specific title can accomplish, “If you thought ‘The Mortuary Assistant’ was scary, we’re taking what we learned during the development of that title and cranking it up with a more reactive and horrifying haunting system. It’s going to be intense!”

The new game is scheduled to be released in 2026.

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