Dead by Daylight fans are beside themselves after Behaviour Interactive announced that all Chucky content would no longer be available to purchase starting next month.

The developer behind the popular asymmetrical horror game confirmed plans to pull the Chucky Chapter from sale in posts shared across social media. The message followed rumors that the possessed killer doll would soon be removed from the game, with the official statement promising that those who have purchased related content will be able to use it even after it is removed from shelves starting November 24, 2026.

"We welcomed The Good Guy out of his box and into The Fog nearly three years ago, but it's now time for the Chucky Chapter to leave the shelf," Behaviour said. "On November 24, 2026, the Chapter and its associated content will be removed from in-game and first-party stores. Any content unlocked before that date will remain available to use in-game."

As detailed in an FAQ post shared by the developers, these changes to the Chucky Chapter mean a few things for Dead by Daylight players. Its Killer, known in-game as The Good Guy, will no longer be available to purchase, though bug fixes will still be supported. The collection of outfits and cosmetics he's gained since being added in 2023 will also be made unavailable, and no future add-ons for the character will be added.

In other words, if you're a Chucky fan who's been waiting to pull the trigger, you might want to start thinking about it. To help ease players into the idea of losing one of Dead by Daylight's most unique Killers, Behaviour is holding a sale for all items related to the Chucky Chapter starting Monday, October 26. The "Last Chance" sale runs until his November 24 removal date and slashes prices by 50% across all platforms.

Dead by Daylight and its collection of Killers has often been referred to as 'horror Super Smash Bros.' by fans, but Behaviour has plenty of experience when it comes to pulling Killers. Hellraiser's Pinhead was pulled from digital storefronts in 2025 after first joining in 2021. Halloween's Michael Myers, the first major playable Killer to join Dead by Daylight after its launch in 2016, was removed this past January.

@DeadbyDaylight I THOUGHT WE HAD A NICE LICENSE AGREEMENT!!!!! https://t.co/bOMgT44DQt

Although Behaviour refrained from sharing more details about why exactly the Child's Play rep is being removed, fans usually assume licensing issues are to blame. Hellraiser and Halloween both received new game announcements in Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival and Halloween: The Game that just happened to arrive around the time their respective properties were pulled from Dead by Daylight. Friday the 13th's infamous licensing kerfuffle is also allegedly what kept Jason Voorhees out of The Fog for years before he finally joined a few months back. Stranger Things is another example, with its first chapter's Demogorgon content removed before returning in 2023.

Like Chucky, players who purchased pulled content can still use it freely even after it's removed from stores, but that doesn't mean other players can't feel the impact. Content being removed from purchase not only means that players won't be able to buy it in the future; it means that content will likely show up less frequently during matches.

That affects just about everyone who likes having their Survivor matches shaken up by new Killer abilities to keep them on their toes, as a player doesn't need to have purchased a chapter to play against its respective Killer. Considering Michael Myers left Dead by Daylight earlier this year and Pinhead was removed not much longer before that, players are feeling Chucky's pull from sale more than many of the previous Killer removals.

"Hold a license challenge: impossible," one fan said.

"How do you keep losing licenses bro?" another fan speculated. "I thought you had a good relationship. Chucky had many skins WTF :("

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Again, Behaviour has not explicitly stated why new players will not be able to purchase Chucky after that November cutoff date. IGN has reached out to the Dead by Daylight team for comment.

"This makes me so sad," one player on Reddit said. "Chucky is such a huge license and we've lost Michael and Pinhead already within the last two years. Not blaming BHVR for it, I get it's business. It just sucks."

"It's strange though. You'd assume they'd change their contractual agreements after losing Demogorgon the first time to prevent this from happening with recent Killers," another replied. "Michael/Pinhead are a bit understandable since those were older licenses, but I'd assume Chucky would've had a proactive contractual agreement to prevent this from happening?"

Although losing three Killers in the span of a year and a half might sting, Behaviour has continued to add new notable characters and franchises into the mix. After Tokyo Ghoul's Ken Kaneki and Five Nights at Freddy's Springtrap were added last year, the studio brought Stranger Things villain Vecna into The Fog. Jason joined in the summer of this year, and Terrifier's Art the Clown will be added next month. Although the majority of the game's licensed Killers have remained available for years and are still available to this day, how long they will remain available for purchase is unclear.

Mass Effect fans are calling for a boycott of all EA products and services in protest of the company closing down BioWare and canceling the next Mass Effect game.

It’s a rough time for Mass Effect fans. On October 21, EA announced its plans to shut down BioWare, a 30-year-old studio that spearheaded RPGs in the West with titles like Dragon Age, Jade Empire, Baldur’s Gate, and of course, Mass Effect.

Players were eagerly awaiting news of the next game in BioWare’s beloved sci-fi franchise — but EA shut that down, too, revealing in a statement that the project was officially canceled.

In the two days since then, fans of BioWare and the Mass Effect series have gathered together to call for action, begging EA to at least sell off BioWare’s IP to other studios rather than letting them languish. In fact, tensions have become so strained that players are now calling for an outright boycott of EA’s products and services until something is done.

On Reddit, several threads are rallying Mass Effect fans to gather under the hashtag #savemasseffect, urging players to take action and make their voices heard.

“WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! Guys we have to start something here and cry out loud enough that this game can be saved. Either EA making it or selling it off. We have to do it now before the noise on this game quiets down and it becomes another cancelled series, never to return,” one Redditor wrote. “I suggest we start a movement, and message the hell out of EA asking for some kind of outcome that gets this game finished. THIS GAME FINISHED.”

“Mass Effect is one of the better RPGs out today,” another fan wrote in a post titled ‘EA Boycott!’ “...Unless they sell Mass Effect to another studio or bring it back. I will never buy another EA product ever. They are already not one of my favorite studios. No more Respawn Entertainment, DICE, Motive Studios, Criterion Games, Maxis, Full Circle, Cliffhanger Games, or any EA Sports.

“I hope I'm not alone in this. We need to stand up and make our voices heard. I posted on everything I can. We can't let Mass Effect die so easily. Private investors need to realize how badly EA screwed up.”

These calls for a boycott coincide with a fanmade petition urging EA to either sell off the IPs to other developers or hand development of Mass Effect 5 to a different studio. At the time of writing, this petition has garnered over 76,500 signatures and counting as more fans and friends of the industry pile in.

Mass Effect 5 — which was reportedly expected to be called Mass Effect Universe — seems to have already been a good way into its development cycle, judging by a full-length trailer that was leaked online yesterday. This trailer rubbed even more salt in the wound for players, many of whom believed this game would be everything fans had been asking for and more.

Industry vets and even voice actors from the Mass Effect games are speaking out in hopes of somehow, some way, getting this game on shelves. But according to industry analysts and former BioWare bosses, it’s not likely that EA will listen to fans’ demands.

Award-winning voice actor Jennifer Hale, best known for voicing the female version of Commander Shepard in the first three Mass Effect games, is speaking out after a leaked trailer for the sci-fi franchise’s next title was leaked online.

The Mass Effect community was hit hard this week by news that EA is closing down BioWare, the 30-year-old studio known for spearheading Western RPGs with series like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, and others.

Rubbing salt in the wound, EA also revealed the next Mass Effect game (supposedly titled Mass Effect Universe) was canceled. This revelation hurt even more after staff who formerly worked on the project spoke out about it online, with one even leaking a full-length trailer for the game on Reddit. This trailer promised a game that would have been everything fans wanted and more — and it even caught the attention of FemShep herself.

Hale responded to a re-upload of the Mass Effect 5 trailer on X/Twitter, and it seems she’s just as hopeful as the rest of us that somehow, some way, the game will still get made.

“It's extraordinary,” she wrote. “I’m holding hope for magic to happen. This community and you incredible devs deserve that and more.”

Two days prior, she went live on Instagram alongside fellow Commander Shepard voice actor Mark Meer, who plays the male version of the character, to address fans in the wake of EA’s devastating decision

“I feel weirdly hopeful, and I can’t explain why,” Hale said. “...I feel for the [BioWare] employees who are suddenly unemployed. That is the number one thing on my mind. Those beautiful team members who are looking for a new home.”

“It is very sad news,” Meer added. “It is a massive loss for Edmonton, for Canada, and for the video game industry in general. It’s very unfortunate to see. And of course, I feel very bad for all of the fans.”

“It’s really hard to think about BioWare being shut down, but it was in the hands of ownership that may not have understood what BioWare fully is,” Hale continued. “And I’m hopeful that maybe, there might be some crazy thing where they decide that. in order to increase their profit margins — which is often their priority — they will release these IPs into the market to sell them, and use that to do what they do, which is increase their profit margins. But maybe, someone could grab hold of these IPs and do something with them.”

Hale isn’t alone in this line of thinking; many fans are calling on EA to at least sell BioWare’s intellectual properties to other developers in the hopes that Mass Effect 5 can eventually be released. Even Canadian politicians are getting in on the conversation, with the country’s New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis taking to social media to publicly call out EA.

However, industry insiders and analysts are urging caution around this particular idea. Speaking with IGN, three separate analysts stated that BioWare’s library of titles simply don’t align with EA’s current strategy, and said it’s unlikely the company relinquishes them to other companies. What’s more, these IPs are likely to be extremely expensive, to the point where other studios simply wouldn’t have the funds nor the time to pursue them.

Former BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah shared a similar sentiment, though he admitted that, given EA is now looking to cut costs to cover its massive debt, it might consider the idea of selling these IPs off — but said it’s just as likely that execs “just try to forget that they ever existed and bury them in the vault.”