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Solar Opposites’ Valentine’s Day Special Delivers Alien Sex, Tiki Drinks, and a Sweet Surprise

Solar Opposites is back! After rolling out a strong season four amid Hollywood’s summer of strikes, the animated Hulu series has just dropped a Valentine’s Day special, in the tradition of its earlier Halloween and Christmas specials—while fans await season five later this year. Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies io9 got a chance to talk to executive producers Mike McMahan (Star Trek: Lower Decks, Rick and Morty) and Josh Bycel about alien romance, tiki culture, new cast member Dan Stevens (brought ahead of season…

Dead by Daylight studio Behaviour confirms layoffs due to ‘changing market conditions’

is the latest notable game developer to lay off workers. The studio confirmed to that the cuts affected less than three percent of the total workforce. first reported on the layoffs, stating that they took place earlier this month and affected around 45 people across several departments. It initially appeared that the layoffs were limited to Behaviour's Montreal headquarters, but the publisher hasn't confirmed whether that's the case."Recently, changing market conditions necessitated adjusting the scope of several…

In Broad Daylight review – Hong Kong newsroom drama shines light on care home scandal | Film

Here’s a solid newsroom drama inspired by a string of real-life scandals involving abuse at care homes for elderly and vulnerable people in Hong Kong. It’s a film with a fair few clunking journalism cliches, and it never quite builds momentum. But the performances are uniformly intelligent and committed, and it has some real insights too; there’s the moral outrage a reporter feels as the penny drops, and she realises that people in positions of power already know about cruelty and neglect in homes. They just haven’t had…

‘Alan Wake’ is joining ‘Dead By Daylight’ later this month

Alan Wake is joining Dead By Daylight as the game’s newest playable character. After teasing the character earlier this week, it was officially announced yesterday (January 9) that Alan Wake would be joining Dead By Daylight as a new character. In a statement posted on the official Dead By Daylight blog, Sam Lake, creative director of Remedy Entertainment, said the following: “We are thrilled to bring Alan Wake, our tortured writer, into the acclaimed Dead By Daylight. We feel the lore of our two horror experiences is…

Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight on January 30

Even though it often seems Behaviour Interactive is on the verge of running out of horror icons to add to Dead by Daylight, it's still managing to bring notable characters to the hit survival horror game. The next well-known name to hit DbD is the one and only Alan Wake.One of the protagonists of Alan Wake 2, widely regarded as one of the best games of 2023, the renowned author is officially coming to DbD on January 30 as part of the next chapter. However, you can try playing as the new survivor on the latest public test…

Alan Wake is joining Dead by Daylight – Destructoid

Behaviour Interactive is keeping the Dead by Daylight crossover train chugging with DLC based on 2024’s winner of some awards, Alan Wake 2. The eponymous wordsmith will be joining the game as a survivor. Dead by Daylight was released back in 2016, and since then, it’s been piling on the crossover content. By now, they must be running out of things to crossover with. Recently, they introduced a survivor DLC that is just Nicholas Cage. Like, just the dude with a few different jackets. Eventually, maybe we’ll just be…

Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight this month

Behaviour Interactive Behaviour Interactive announced today that multiplayer horror game Dead by Daylight will cross over with Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake later this month. Alan Wake is just the latest of several crossover characters to come by Dead by Daylight. Just last year, the multiplayer horror game crossed over with franchises like Alien and Child’s Play; Nicolas Cage also came to the game as a survivor. This Alan Wake crossover feels particularly timely, as Alan Wake 2 launched in October 2023 to…

‘Alan Wake’ may be coming to ‘Dead By Daylight’

Alan Wake could be coming to Dead By Daylight, a new teaser suggests. While to the uninitiated the teaser looks fairly innocent, with a flashlight illuminating several blood-splattered pages in the dark, fans are already guessing that this could be related to Alan Wake, who uses a flashlight to tear his way through the darkness that encroaches upon his life in his games. If true, it’s also possible that this isn’t only referencing the upcoming addition of Alan Wake, but also the addition of the second playable character…

Remembering the startups we lost in 2023

Not every startup collapse is an FTX or Theranos. They don’t all burn so brightly and explode so spectacularly. More often than not, there won’t be some high-profile court case and prison time. Amanda Seyfried isn’t going to play you in the made for Hulu movie. The story of most startup failures is far less exciting. The timing isn’t right, funding dries up, runways run out. Of late, a lot of macroeconomic factors have come into play, as well. These past few years have been especially brutal for startup land.…

Dead by Daylight goes single-player with The Casting of Frank Stone

Behaviour Interactive revealed The Casting of Frank Stone, a new narrative-focused single-player horror title set in the Dead by Daylight universe, at The Game Awards 2023. Behaviour Interactive Dead by Daylight has stayed relevant in the competitive landscape of live-service multiplayer titles in no small part due to the rollout of horror films’ most iconic characters, as well as its addicting gameplay. For as popular as this asymmetrical game centered around four survivors attempting to avoid and escape one…