{"id":80347,"date":"2026-05-23T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=80347"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T20:36:47","slug":"dead-by-daylight-players-react-after-traumatizing-cabin-stream-confirms-jason-voorhees-as-new-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=80347","title":{"rendered":"Dead by Daylight Players React After &#8216;Traumatizing&#8217; Cabin Stream Confirms Jason Voorhees as New Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Developer Behaviour Interactive has said the name <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/dead-by-daylight\">Dead by Daylight<\/a> players have waited 10 long years and one 13-hour livestream to hear: Jason Voorhees.<\/p>\n<p>The hockey mask-wearing slasher icon from Friday the 13th showed up after weeks of speculation from fans with a brief teaser today. He&#8217;s undeniably one of the most-requested Killers the long-running asymmetrical horror game has ever had, and while most are just happy to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Gravecyde\/status\/2058197318545924526?s=20\">&#8220;Mount Rushmore of horror&#8221;<\/a> finally completed, the road to Jason was anything but easy.<\/p>\n<p>Dead by Daylight will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/dead-by-daylight-devs-celebrate-10-years-of-eldritch-evil-and-hope-for-many-many-more\">celebrate its 10th anniversary<\/a> this June, so to say expectations for its annual birthday festivities were through the roof would be an understatement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/deadbydaylight\/comments\/1tjnz5t\/first_time_they_manage_to_pull_this_off\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">An unusual absence of leaks<\/a> left fans to swim in a lake of rumors throughout the year, so despite Jason remaining atop the shortlist of potential Killers, fans have remained in the dark when it came to Behaviour&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"dead-by-daylight-x-jason-official-trailer\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>A series of recent teasers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/deadbydaylight\/comments\/1tezlxa\/i_dont_think_it_can_be_denied_anymore\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">polluted with references to the number 13<\/a> should have felt like a dead giveaway that the Friday the 13th rep was on the way, but the community of horror fans had other ideas. Fan predictions in the weeks leading up to today&#8217;s reveal began<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer Behaviour Interactive has said the name Dead by Daylight players have waited 10 long years and one 13-hour livestream to hear: Jason Voorhees. The hockey mask-wearing slasher icon from Friday the 13th showed up after weeks of speculation from fans with a brief teaser today. He&#8217;s undeniably one of the most-requested Killers the long-running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":80349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80351,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347\/revisions\/80351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}