Bandai Namco Entertainment confirmed the release of a new game based on the Death Note manga by Ohba Tsugumi and Obata Takeshi. The game DEATH NOTE Killer Within will launch on November 5th, 2024, for PlayStation 4 and 5 and PC via Steam.
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The DEATH NOTE Killer Within game is described as an online social deduction game for up to 10 players. Players will be split into two teams with different objectives. To win the game, players will need to figure out each other’s identities and either eliminate L, who threatens Kira’s power or seize the Death Note.
Ohba and Obata started the Death Note manga in January 2003, and Shueisha published the manga’s first tankoubon volume in April 2004 and the 12th volume in July 2006. The manga inspired an anime adaptation, which premiered in 2006, and two live-action films, titled Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, which also premiered in Japan in 2006. In 2017, another live-action film titled Death Note was released by Netflix.
The manga is released in English by Viz Media, and it describes the story below:
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects, but he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life?
Light tests the boundaries of the Death Note’s powers as L, and the police begin to close in. Luckily, Light’s father is the head of the Japanese National Police Agency and leaves vital information about the case lying around the house. With access to his father’s files, Light can keep one step ahead of the authorities. But who is the strange man following him, and how can Light guard against enemies whose names he doesn’t know?
