Saber Interactive appears to be like like it’s going to as soon as once more be moving into the horror style as a brand new teaser closely implies a Hellraiser recreation might be introduced on July 22.
The corporate posted a teaser video which reveals an previous CRT TV surrounded by candles in the midst of a room. The footage is grainy and infrequently interrupted by raster strains. Within the background, chains might be heard rattling, somebody is screaming in ache and there’s a bell that sounds suspiciously just like the one heard when Hellraiser’s iconic Pinhead is summoned.
In addition they posted a hyperlink to an internet site titled www.july-22-2025.com which shows a time: 01:00 UTC.
On the web site, there’s additionally one other sturdy trace towards Hellraiser when a brick wall with the road signal “55” briefly seems. That’s the variety of Cotton Home from the unique Hellraiser film, the identical location by which the Lament Configuration was solved and Pinhead was summoned in all of his BDSM glory.
There’s additionally the truth that the rights to Hellraiser had been additionally pulled from Lifeless By Daylight in April, which means Pinhead can not be bought as a playable character. Whereas there would technically be nothing stopping Hellraiser showing in DBD and being the main focus of a complete different recreation, it’s potential the contract with DBD ended and the rights holder selected to not renew so that every one eyes might be on the brand new Hellraiser recreation.
The reception to the tease up to now has been considerably combined, largely due to Saber Interactive’s historical past with different horror titles. Loads of folks on social media have already posted their hope that this isn’t going to be one other multiplayer horror title, and level to Saber Interactive “abandoning” Evil Lifeless: The Recreation after 6-months.
Nevertheless, among the on-line backlash is misplaced as followers appear to be accusing Saber of inflicting Pinhead to be faraway from Lifeless By Daylight. Saber Interactive, in fact, don’t personal the Hellraiser license and haven’t any management over who will get to make use of the rights. At present, Clive Barker holds the rights to the unique film and characters. Exterior of that, the rights to the franchise are extra sophisticated.
We do additionally know a powerful contender for the builders. Mad Head Video games is a Serbian developer below Saber Interactive, and in 2023, Energy-Up interviewer Tahlia Norrish spoke to Affiliate Recreation Director Marija Milivojevic. Within the closing assertion, the interview stated that “Mad Head Video games is already within the works on their second title, based mostly on a well-known horror movie IP.”
Since then, a number of job listings have additionally confirmed the corporate is engaged on at the least 2 tasks based mostly on present IP.
To my thoughts, that’s sturdy proof that Mad Head Video games is engaged on Hellraiser. But it surely goes with out saying that that is simply hypothesis on my half. Saber Interactive has lots of groups that might be dealing with the undertaking, and we are going to know for positive on July 22.
