Iconic slasher film villain Jason Voorhees is about to seem in additional video games sooner or later.
A brand new enterprise known as Jason Universe has been arrange in an try and carry the Friday the thirteenth villain to the fashionable period by means of quite a lot of new tasks and appearances, IGN experiences.
Jason Universe can be run in collaboration with Friday the thirteenth screenwriter Victor Miller (who owns the home rights to the unique film).
The Jason Universe Fb web page describes it as “a brand new period of the Friday the thirteenth franchise”.
“Keep tuned for information on recent leisure, video games, experiences, merch and extra starring everybody’s favourite hockey-mask-wearing villain,” it says.
The Jason Universe web site at the moment has a hyperlink to its social media accounts and a kind to join its e-newsletter, however no additional info on Jason’s future appearances.
Its X account, nevertheless, is at the moment solely following one different account on the social media platform, which is Fortnite.
For the reason that launch of the unique Friday the thirteenth in 1980, Jason has appeared in plenty of video games over the a long time, together with an NES sport by Acclaim and a house pc sport by Domark.
2017’s asymmetrical horror sport Friday the thirteenth: The Sport was pulled from sale on December 31, 2023 after its licence expired.
The identical destiny befell critically acclaimed cell sport Friday the thirteenth: Killer Puzzle, which was delisted in January 2023 on account of “the lack to resume the licence with the licensors”.
Jason additionally appeared as a DLC character in Mortal Kombat X, alongside film villains Predator, Alien and Leatherface.
The general Friday the thirteenth franchise continues to be owned by Warner Bros.
