I'm sorry, Redditor JR_Masterson, but a sequel to the 2006 stealth-action game Sneak King will probably never happen because the mascot was creepy as hell.

In an interview with Restaurant Business (via IGN), the burger chain's chief marketing officer Joel Yashinsky said that because rivals like McDonald's were dominating with a more family-friendly mascot, the eerier "Creepy King" had to go to maintain profitability.

"There were a number of learnings we had from creepy king," Yashinsky said. "And we've moved away from creepy king because he had limited appeal."

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A Song of Ice and Fire: Leatherette Box Set

$36.12 (was $85)

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A collectible box set of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series is on sale for cheap at Amazon. As part of the retailer's Prime Big Deal Days early book sale, the leather-cloth-bound editions of all five novels in the fantasy series is discounted to only $36.12 (was $85). The 58% discount is the biggest price cut in two years. You need to be a Prime member to take advantage of this deal, otherwise the set will cost you $45.

Amazon also has a 50% discount on the similar J.R.R. Tolkien box set featuring The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with leatherette covers and a display case.

A Song of Ice and Fire: Leatherette Box Set $36.12 (was $85)

Includes:

1. A Game of Thrones
2. A Clash of Kings
3. A Storm of Swords
4. A Feast for Crows
5. A Dance with Dragons

These handsome editions of Martin's best-selling novels are bound in leatherette. Each one is a different color, though all five share a unified, minimalist design. The front covers and spines feature the title in a decorative box and George R.R. Martin's logo in the center. The set comes with the display box shown above.

The leatherette editions of ASOIAF are roughly the same size as the mass market paperbacks, though they are understandably higher-quality books. Just keep in mind that these pocket-sized editions, which are roughly 4 x 6 inches, have small text. If you're reading Game of Thrones for the first time, we'd generally recommend the trade paperback or hardcover editions. But if you're used to reading mass market paperbacks, you probably won't be bothered by the size of the leatherette editions.

All told, you're getting 5,280 pages of superb fantasy fiction for only $36, which breaks down to roughly $7 per book.

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A Dance with Dragons was published way back in 2011, and it remains unclear when The Winds of Winter will be published--if it releases at all. Not to mention the seventh and final book, A Dream of Spring. Even with the uncertainty surrounding future books, A Song of Ice and Fire is still worth reading. It's one of the best fantasy series of the last 30 years.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 arrives on November 14, but you can already go hands-on with the game during the BO7 beta. You'll want to adjust some of the game settings to improve your aim and movement, and there's also an intelligent movement setting to help with Black Ops 7's new wall jump mechanic. This guide covers recommended settings for controllers, graphics, and audio settings in the Black Ops 7 menus.

Optimal settings are always going to be subjective, but here we detail our preferred options for console players on PS4/PS5 and Xbox One/Xbox Series X|S.

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Rockstar Games has announced plans for how Grand Theft Auto V will celebrate Halloween, and there is a lot of spooky content on tap.

To begin with, the Cayo Perico Survival and Ludendorff Cemetery Survival modes are back, but with a zombie twist for Halloween. Players will face off against "tides of zombies" in these locations, along with "hulking juggernauts, armored conquistadors, splitters, possessed animals and their trainers, zombie DJs, and more," Rockstar said.

Halloween comes to GTA Online.

The Cayo Perico Survival mode pays out double GTA$ and RP now through October 8, while the Ludendorff Cemetery Survival mode pays triple rewards October 23-November 5.

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Amazon has revealed the next batch of PC games that'll be coming to Prime Gaming in October, and this month, you can torment some souls, join the bite club of Vampire: the Masquerade, and journey back into the wasteland of Fallout.

Right now, you can grab the retro-inspired action game DragonStrike and check out some classic survival-horror with Tormented Souls. Later this month, you can continue the fight against alien invaders in the tactical-RPG XCOM 2 and prepare for the arrival of Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 with a visual-novel game set in the same universe, called Reckoning of New York.

Fallout fans can also download two of the best games in the series--Fallout 3 and New Vegas--when they arrive later this month.

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Developers at independent studio ZA/UM, the team behind the critically acclaimed RPG Disco Elysium, have formed a union that was recognized by the United Kingdom's games industry, marking a first in the country.

In an October 2 blog post on the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Game Workers website, chairperson Spring McParlin-Jones and organizing officer Eugenia Peruzzo expressed excitement about this development. It's a big deal, after all, particularly because ZA/UM's recognized union could provide hope for other developers in the UK looking to gain collective power.

As the blog post noted, this is an "exciting milestone for workers industry-wide" that will give employees and management the appropriate means to negotiate workplace-related matters revolving around mental health, financial stability, and social livelihoods. ZA/UM will elect a committee of workplace representatives--with the IWGB support--to discuss the team's concerns. In essence, ZA/UM developers will now have the power.

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