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With Halloween coming up on Thursday, we've been buried under seasonal movies, shows, in-game events, discounts, and all sorts of news tied to Charlie Brown's favorite holiday. So to help get into the spirit of the season, we rounded up some of our favorite Halloween-related stories from recent weeks to kick off this week's newsletter — though, to be sure, we'll see even more of these next week leading up to the big day. |
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| Venom: The Last Dance is in a toxic relationship with itself | The third outing for Tom Hardy's dysfunctional duo has too many limbs and no heart. M. Night Shyamalan has always been brilliant. It's audiences who are finally catching up | The director just keeps reinventing himself and waiting for the world to notice. Everything we know about Deltarune, Toby Fox's follow-up to Undertale | Deltarune has been in development a long time. The unprecedented Pokémon hack covers decades of game secrets. Here's what it means | Everything to know about Game Freak's big breach. How one of YouTube's biggest ASMRtists created her shot-for-shot Shrek remake | If this is your first foray into ASMR, you're welcome. The art of gore: Timo Tjahjanto on why keeping movie action bloody is a matter of 'respect' | 'I feel like we have to hold ourselves accountable as filmmakers to show just how traumatizing violence can be.' For Humberly González, Star Wars Outlaws wasn't a stepping stone, it was the dream | The actor could win big at The Game Awards, but leading a video game might be enough. 'The Ballad of the Witches' Road' covers, ranked | Down, down, down the road. Let's all stop saying Nintendo games are only for kids | It's a poor way to shut down relevant discourse. DC is reviving Vertigo Comics because it has to | Black Label 'killed' Vertigo — and now its success has revived the imprint. How the 4th Southern Reach book, Absolution, burst out of author Jeff VanderMeer | The Annihilation author says his latest is the 'most uncanny' story in the Area X saga. |
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The Legend of Vox Machina on Prime Video | In a world without filler episodes, The Legend of Vox Machina still makes space for crucial downtime. Hysteria! on Peacock | Miss what Stranger Things used to be? Watch Hysteria! Unhinged on Netflix | Quentin Tarantino's favorite thriller of 2020 is now on Netflix. Lady in the Water, available for digital rental or purchase on Amazon and Apple TV | The bridge between two eras of M. Night Shyamalan. Trap on Max | A perfect Hitman movie. The best TV of 2024 so far | The best new and returning shows to watch on Netflix, Prime, and more. |
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Wilmot Works It Out | Like solving a puzzle on the floor of your living room. Available on Mac and Windows PC.
Influencer Story: Rise to Fame | Kim Kardashian: Hollywood fans might have a replacement. Available on Android and iOS. Webfishing | The ultimate yapping game. Available on Windows PC.
Japanese Rural Life Adventure | This Stardew Valley-like sim is truly designed for mobile. Available on iOS and Mac. What vegetable are you? | This veggie personality quiz has a hidden secret. Available on GitHub. Potionomics | The small-business simulator gets its first big update in nearly two years. Available on Windows PC. |
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This detailed diecast Dreamcast miniature is a dream come true — and available to pre-order for just $44, alongside Genesis, Mega Drive, and Saturn versions! (From Square Enix, oddly enough.) "The weighty replicas are full of immaculate, hand-painted details, right down to the individual buttons on each included controller," writes Alice Jovanée. |
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| Keep Driving demo | Can a driving game without any actual driving possibly work? Keep Driving turns a long-haul road trip into a turn-based RPG. Available on Windows PC. |
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- FINALLY: You can bone the Grim Reaper in The Sims 4 now.
INEVITABLY: Brave streamers attempt to thwart Nintendo's playtest requests — and (unsurprisingly) get punished for it. SCHOLARLY: This Twitch stream taught Bernie Sanders what a Vtuber is. ARTFULLY: Burnice brainrot has taken over all my feeds. SNEAKILY: Alan Wake 2's new DLC has a big, exciting Control 2 Easter egg. SPARINGLY: Pokémon TCG vending machines are showing up in big-box stores. PROMISINGLY: The future of Fallout 76 includes pets, fishing, and an Enclave raid. TENTATIVELY: Blizzard's bringing back 6v6 Overwatch 2 in December to see how that whole thing goes.
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