Let the Predator Have a New Video Game

What a month it’s been for fans of the Predator. 20th Century Studios offered our best looks yet at the theatrical, Dan Trachtenberg-directed Badlands and the animated anthology Killer of Killers. In the comics, the alien’s just kicked off a fight with Spider-Man that’s later going to see the larger Marvel universe catch hands over the summer. There’s really only one thing missing from this feast, and that would be a video game. Not counting its many, many crossovers with Alien, the Predator franchise has a fairly small games presence across its 38-year life. Aside from adaptations for the first two movies and a mobile tie-in for 2010’s Predators, the significant titles have been 2005’s Concrete Jungle, a 2018 VR game, and 2020’s multiplayer-focused Hunting Grounds. But the monster’s most important appearance was as DLC for Mortal Kombat X (which also featured the Alien, natch). Yautja are apparently best suited to multiplayer, and it’s easy to see why: they have better technology th ... Read full article.