Well done players, another Friday is upon you, the first one in the month of August. Yeah, it’s been eight months already, and you’ve just been struck with existential dread.

But how about we discuss some gamin’ first, you know? Save that late-night crisis for the, well, late night.

Hunters in a swamp in Hunt: Showdown.

Hunting for Hunt

In the midst of being stricken by exercise-induced allergies I am having a hard time recovering from, I’m planning to return to one of gaming’s best titles—Hunt: Showdown. Extraction shooters have never been forte, butHuntis simply one I keep coming back to. It’s made by Crytek on their fantastic Cryengine, which provides both smooth gameplay and stellar graphics which you aren’t likely to encounter in other games.

On top of that, it just launched itsBlood Meridian-themed event, and, being the biggest Cormac McCarthy fan you’ve ever heard of, I simply had to return to experience it. So, I hope this weekend will be fruitful huntin’ time, provided I get actually competent teammates instead of citizens of Eastern European countries whose languages I unfortunately do not speak.

hunt showdown 1896 hunters and enemy

The DBD addiction is real

Outside ofHunt, I’ll devote every waking hour to playingDead by Daylight, both as a Killer and a Survivor.

I’ve been on a strong slasher horror binge, speeding throughNightmare on Elm Street,Halloween, and threeScreamfilms so far. I plan to watchScream 4tonight and the rest in the coming days (perhaps even this weekend), and I’ll be supplying that crave(n) with that sweetDBDGhostface gameplay to which I cannot even express how addicted I am. Everyone calls him a crappy Killer, much like his movie counterparts are, but I love him nonetheless.

Image of Ken Kaneki in Dead by Daylight

But enough about my movie and video game addictions, I wanna know what you’ll be doing this summer, and specifically this weekend. Any horror games in that repertoire of yours? Indies, AAA corpo giants? Let me know below and, as always, have a brutally beautiful weekend, Destructoid.

OW2 Mercy in her Rose Gold skin

Weapons kid running in street

Rick and morty falling through colorful space and Belly, Conrad, jere, Taylor, and Steven gathered around a table outside in the summer i turned pretty

Battlefield 6 aiming RPG at a helicopter

Milla Jovovich portraying Alice in Resident Evil 2002, wearing a red dress and holding a gun in her hand.

A man caught in an alien tree in Abiotic Factor.

A three-panel image of Pokémon Masters EX showing Latios on the left, Silver at center, and the keyart with Red, Cynthia, and more trainers on the right