First came an announcement for Summer Camp. Then we learned about Last Year. So now’s the perfect time for the original camp counselor killer to get his first game since an appearance on the NES in 1989. I’m talking, of course, about Jason Voorhees (“Ch Ch, Ch, Chhh, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ahhh”).
EGM has discovered that Friday the 13th: The Video Game is currently in development at an “experienced game studio” for “multiple platforms.” According to Sean S. Cunningham, the director of the original film, an official announcement for the game should be dropping in “the coming weeks.”
Like Summer Camp and Last Year, Friday the 13th: The Video Game will be an asymmetrical multiplayer affair where one player is the hulking, hockey mask-wearing Jason and the other players take control of the expendable (and likely oversexed) teens.
Friday the 13th: The Video Game is currently on track for an October 2015 release and will use concepts and characters from the franchise’s 35-year history as well as the upcoming Friday the 13th television show.
It’s yet another freezing day here in Philadelphia, and I’ve just about had it. I have on so many layers and I can still feel the bite when I’m outside waiting for the bus. I can’t wait to get home tonight to my ultra-heated apartment and… oh wait, I’ll just be doing homework all night. Well, I’m still glad to be warm, so whatever.
It wouldn’t be PAX without an “Inside Gearbox Software” panel, so it’s a good thing that the developers of Borderlands and Aliens: Colonial Marines have decided to attend the inaugural PAX South convention. But PAX South’s San Antonio setting is practically in Gearbox’s Plano backyard, so I guess this news shouldn’t be much of a surprise. However, what will be surprising is whatever Gearbox plans to talk about as the 
