Dead by Daylight News

About 20 years ago, a travel company declared this Monday just gone, the 15th, to be the most depressing day of the year. They call it Blue January. Enter yet more studio layoffs. 2023's trend continues with Dead By Daylight developer Behaviour Interactive getting rid of about 45 staff, per Kotaku, while CI Games has laid off 10% of its workforce, including from Lords Of The Fallen studio Hexworks and Sniper Ghost Warrior studio Underdog (via GI.Biz).

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Things just never get un-spooky for poor Alan Wake, who’s now set to arrive in Dead By Daylight on January 30 as the game’s latest crossover survivor, following all that fun he had in Alan Wake 2 late last year.

Following a trail blazed by luminaries like Chucky and Nicholas Cage, Wake is involved in DBD’s next chapter as part of a cool collaboration between Behaviour Interactive and Remedy Entertainment, both of which know a thing or two about the whole horror game thing. Naturally, he’s even got a bunch of unique perks to help you escape those pesky killers.

“Since it first launched back in 2010, Alan Wake has been a huge influence to us on the Dead by Daylight team,” Behaviour Interactive head of partnerships Mathieu Coté said of the character’s arrival. He added that due to the numerous similarities between the two games and how well Wake fits with Dead By Daylight’s established world, “to finally see Alan come to the Fog as a Survivor feels like a full-circle moment.”

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Things just never get un-spooky for poor Alan Wake, who’s now set to arrive in Dead By Daylight on January 30 as the game’s latest crossover survivor, following all that fun he had in Alan Wake 2 late last year.

Following a trail blazed by luminaries like Chucky and Nicholas Cage, Wake is involved in DBD’s next chapter as part of a cool collaboration between Behaviour Interactive and Remedy Entertainment, both of which know a thing or two about the whole horror game thing. Naturally, he’s even got a bunch of unique perks to help you escape those pesky killers.

“Since it first launched back in 2010, Alan Wake has been a huge influence to us on the Dead by Daylight team,” Behaviour Interactive head of partnerships Mathieu Coté said of the character’s arrival. He added that due to the numerous similarities between the two games and how well Wake fits with Dead By Daylight’s established world, “to finally see Alan come to the Fog as a Survivor feels like a full-circle moment.”

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One day after dropping a teaser that shone a pretty clear light on what was coming next, Behaviour Interactive has made it official: Alan Wake, the long-suffering writer and star of Remedy's Alan Wake games, is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor...
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I will not lie to you, reader, I used up about 95% of today's remaining creative energy/caffeine on that headline joke, but let's charge our flashlights, sharpen our hooks and struggle on through the body copy anyway. Remedy's Alan Wake is joining Behaviour Interactive's Dead By Daylight as a playable Survivor, having been conjured from his writing desk by the latter game's villainous Entity.

Mind you, I'm a little unclear on the causality here. The press release includes a cheeky quote from a lost Alan Wake manuscript in which the perennially troubled horror author suggests that he is the creator of Dead By Daylight's universe, not Behaviour Interactive. "As I searched for a way out, memories of a script I wrote for Night Springs about a fog-engulfed place flooded back," it reads. "Surrounded by the same fog, I became a pawn - trapped. I must find a way out. Rewriting that script is key." Oh Alan. Have you tried laying off the coffee and going for a stroll, now and then?

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