If you've been hanging around in a field hoping for the Great Pumpkin to appear, then you're going to be waiting a long time. The only spooky pumpkins coming your way this year are in Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival, the pumpkin-carving MMO that's back online after its planned hiatus

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was created by Whippoorwill Ltd aka Adam R. & Dawn B., and the game sends players into a literal ghost town where they can take part in the in-game Halloween festival and pumpkin-carving contest. Players can win prize ribbons from other players who dole out awards to their favorite pumpkins. The game also encourages players to wander around the small town and customize their ghost avatar.

Previously, Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival was limited to 200 players at a time. This year, the game has added support for 800 simultaneous players. There are also new areas to find, including the Ghost Town Cinema, which plays classic silent movies. Some of the other activities in town include exploring a haunted and a hayride.

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Stack Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 3-Month Codes

Amazon's deal saves you $35 every three months.

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Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a substantial price increase for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. If you're a subscriber in the US, you will now be charged $30/month, a $10 bump from the previous $20/month rate. The new price is effective immediately, so you may have already paid the increased rate if you were billed already this month. That said, there is a way to avoid the price increase: prepaid codes. The price of prepaid membership codes hasn't changed--at least not yet. Over at Amazon, you can get Xbox Game Pass Ultimate 3-Month Membership codes for $55 (was $60), which breaks down to $18.33/month. Based on Microsoft's new subscription price, you're saving $35 across three months.

1-Month prepaid codes are sold for $20 at Amazon, so you're saving an additional five bucks every three months with Amazon's deal. Amazon's prepaid codes can be redeemed by existing and new subscribers with a US Xbox account. Once you enter a prepaid code, your next billing date is pushed. So if you redeem a 3-Month Membership in October, you won't be billed again by Microsoft until January.

The discount on prepaid codes becomes more glaring if you buy multiple. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can be stacked up to 36 months. For instance, if you were to buy four prepaid 3-Month codes, you'd save $140 on a full year of Game Pass Ultimate. Here's a breakdown of the savings from buying Amazon's prepaid code deal versus subscribing directly through Microsoft. Note: The numbers in the Amazon column are based on the 3-Month Membership deal, but even if the price jumps back to $60, you're still saving a ton of cash.

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Earlier this week, Team Cherry released a patch for Hollow Knight: Silksong, and now the developer has already dropped a new beta patch that's currently in the works. For now, this update appears to be even smaller than the last patch, with a focus on localization and control issues.

One of the most notable improvements is that rumble features have now been implemented. The devs also note that they are using a new script with an updated Chinese translation, which will be further refined "based on player feedback." The previous Chinese translation was wildly unpopular and led to the game getting review-bombed.

Most of the other fixes in this beta patch are fairly minor quality-of-life improvements. The update from earlier this week had more compelling features, including DualSense Edge support. Team Cherry has previously shared a patch to lower Silksong's difficulty, but fans who need additional help making their way through the game may be better served by checking out Silksong mods that make it easier.

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The opening sequence of next year's Mortal Kombat 2 movie will "punch you in the face" and possibly make you cry. That's according to series creator Ed Boon, who said in a new interview that every time he's watched the opening sequence, he's cried.

"I don't think I've seen it yet and not cried," Boon told Collider, as reported by GamesRadar. "It is intense. It punches you in the face. And it absolutely is the best way to start it, but the rest of the movie just lives up to it. It's such a powerful opening scene."

That's all he had to say, so we don't know exactly what he's referring to here or how the opening sequence will do what Boon claims it will.

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The Bone Collector (4K Blu-Ray)

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With spooky season in full swing, there's only one thing that should be on your to-do list: Cozying up and watching all your favorite horror and thriller movies. If you're more into mysteries than you are jump scares, the 1999 classic, The Bone Collector, has just been released on 4K Blu-Ray and is 50% off the original price during launch week. That's just $22.49 for a Blu-Ray that would normally run you $45, so if you want to pick up a copy, now is the time to do it.

The Bone Collector (4K Blu-Ray) $22.49 (was $45)

The newly released The Bone Collector 4K UHD Blu-Ray edition is a two-disc set featuring 4K UHD and standard Blu-ray versions of the gripping 1999 thriller. The new 4K version was created from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative and a lossless 5.1 surround sound, with final approval from director Phillip Noyce. The 4K disc supports Dolby Vision HDR.

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The Bone Collector 4K Blu-Ray offers a short selection of bonus features that you can enjoy after you watch the movie, including multiple audio commentaries, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and more.

• Three Audio Commentary tracks featuring: Director Phillip Noyce; Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Edwin Samuelson; and critic Kim Newman and journalist Barry Forshaw
• Spotlight on Location: Featurette
• Remastered Theatrical Trailer

While not exactly a Halloween classic, The Bone Collector is still worth a watch during spooky season. The classic thriller stars Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie as they try to solve the case of a serial killer who aims to distract their pursuers with macabre puzzles. The new 4K edition is likely the best-looking version of the film available, and since it comes with a standard Blu-ray disc version of the film, you can enjoy the movie whether you have a 4K Blu-ray player or are still rocking with an old-school standard Blu-ray device instead. However, if you want to save even more cash, the previously released The Bone Collector standard Blu-ray edition is also available at Amazon for just $12.49. You'll miss out on the 4K remastering, but it includes all the same bonus materials.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 Limited Edition

$175 (was $220) | Releases October 21

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2

$40 (was $70) | Releases September 23

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 1

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The first half of one of the best anime series of recent memory, Frieren, recently arrived on Blu-ray, and the saga continues when the second half of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End launches later this year. The $70 edition of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 launched in September and the premium Limited Edition launches on October 21 and has been discounted to $175 (was $220).

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 Limited Edition $175 (was $220) | Releases October 21

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 Limited Edition launches a month after the standard edition, but includes all the episodes and special video features in the standard edition, plus several exclusive collectibles, including a 200-page art book, three art cards, an acrylic standee of Frieren falling victim to yet another treasure chest mimic, a themed luggage tag, sticker sheets, and Shikshi charms. It all comes in a collector's box designed to look like Frieren's signature suitcase.

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The four-disc Blu-ray set includes the 12 episodes that comprise Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season One. It also includes three art cards featuring Frieren and her friends. You also get a selection of bonus features like web previews, clean credit sequences, promotional materials, a special video called Journey's Memory, and an extra mini-anime episode.

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You can also pick up Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 1 if you need to catch up on the first batch of episodes. This Blu-ray release includes episodes 1-16, a selection of special features, and four art cards featuring Frieren and her party members, Fern, Stark, and Sein.

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• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 Limited Edition (Blu-ray) -- $175 ($220)
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 2 (Blu-ray) -- $40 ($70)
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Part 1 (Blu-ray) -- $40

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is a critically acclaimed anime adaptation of Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe's manga. The fantasy series follows the titular elf mage Frieren as she sets off on a long journey to find the resting place of souls so that she can reunite with her former comrade Himmel, who led the party to slay the Demon King decades ago. As an elf, Frieren is blessed--or cursed--with an absurdly long lifespan, and she experiences time differently from her human companions. The show earned high praise from audiences and critics for its nuanced characters, gorgeous animation, and detailed fantasy world-building.

While these Blu-ray releases will catch up on the anime's run so far, they're not the entire story, and the show's second season is scheduled to debut in January 2026. However, if you can't wait that long, you can read ahead with the original Frieren manga. Volumes 1-13 have been localized to English and are available now, while Volume 14 is available to preorder at Amazon.

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Fallout Magic: The Gathering Commander Deck Bundle

$145 (was $240)

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Magic: The Gathering TCG collectors and Fallout fans can snag the Commander Deck Bundle for only $145 at Amazon. Your order is shipped and sold by Amazon and is $95 cheaper than the original $240 MSRP. This is the best price we've seen for the Commander Deck Bundle since Fallout joined the Magic: The Gathering universe last March. The bundle comes with all four Commander Decks, so you're paying $36.25 per deck. Considering multiple Fallout Commander Decks still sell for $50-$60 each, you're saving a lot by purchasing them together.

Each Fallout Commander Deck comes with a premade 100-card deck themed around the Fallout video game franchise. Across the four decks, you'll get 154 exclusive cards you won't find in anywhere else. Notably, each Commander Deck also comes with a Collector Booster sample pack featuring two special alt-frame cards, one of which will be Rare or Mythic-Rare. In addition to the 102 total cards per deck, you'll find 10 double-sided tokens, one life counter, a strategy guide, and a deck box that can hold up to 100 sleeved cards.

We've listed all four MTG x Fallout Commander Decks individually below. If you were to buy all of them today outside of the bundle, you'd wind up spending roughly $200. Note: Scrappy Survivors and Hail, Caesar Commander Decks are shipped and sold by Amazon, while Science and Mutant Menace are sold by third parties and fulfilled by Amazon.

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Dead Space co-creator Glen Schofield has said he has "quite a few ideas" for what he wants to make next, and one of them is Dead Space 4. With EA's pending $55 billion sale to an investor consortium for $55 billion, Schofield said he thinks "there's an opportunity" to make it happen.

He told IGN, "I'm already making calls."

Schofield did not return for Dead Space 2 or Dead Space 3, and he told VGC that he played "just a little bit" of the 2023 remake and enjoyed it. The developer also mentioned in the IGN interview that he thinks the 2023 remake did not make money, and he feels EA may look to dump the franchise.

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When Ubisoft launched The Crew 2 in 2018, there weren't any options to bring this online racing game offline. Now, seven years later, The Crew 2 has finally received its much-requested offline mode.

Starting today, PC players can download an update from Ubisoft and enjoy The Crew 2 without an internet connection with Hybrid Mode. The console update for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will be released later today.

Players now have the option of picking either online or offline when starting up the game. If players aren't connected to the internet, then The Crew 2 will automatically switch to offline. Ubisoft notes that saves for the two modes are completely separate, and progress made offline will not carry over to online. However, players can export a copy of their online save to their computer or console for the offline mode.

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PowerWash Simulator 2 is a zen experience solo, allowing you to get lost in a relaxing process of cleaning away grime for hours on end. However, it also features a multiplayer component for up to four players, so you can team up with friends to tackle some of the game's biggest and most challenging jobs together. If you're curious about what options you'll have available when doing so, here's everything you need to know about split-screen, crossplay, and cross-progression in PowerWash Simulator 2.

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If you and a friend are hanging out on the same couch and want to play PowerWash Simulator 2 together, you're in luck. By simply opening up the multiplayer menu and selecting "Start Split-Screen Session," you two can get started cleaning up any job you wish.

Does PowerWash Simulator 2 have crossplay?

If you're hoping to play PowerWash Simulator 2 with friends on different platforms, your ability to do so will depend entirely on which platforms you're playing on. Xbox and PC players can team up with one another in multiplayer by creating a room and sharing their unique room code with up to three other players. However, those playing on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 can only team up with players on their respective platforms for now--and maybe forever.

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Glen Schofield, a former Call of Duty boss at Sledgehammer Games, has said he is "immensely" worried about the future of the series under Microsoft. He also stated that the quality of most Call of Duty releases since he left has fallen.

Speaking to VGC, Schofield said of Microsoft's ownership of Call of Duty, "I worry about it immensely, I really do. Because what's happening here is a war."

"Unfortunately, once you're assimilated by one of these companies, I think you take on some of their traits," he added.

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Diablo 4 may be far more challenging come Season 11, with a slew of updates set to address monster behavior and difficulty.

As detailed by Blizzard, the goal is to have monsters starting with Season 11 more regularly test players' defenses and force players to interact with them in new ways. Enemy monsters will see changes to make their behavior less predictable, while at the same time making it so each type of monster will have their own clear role and identity in combat. Monsters packs will also group up less, making it more difficult for players to wipe out large groups of multiple packs in a single go.

Azmodan will be a new world boss coming in Diablo 4 Season 11.

A big part of the update to monsters will be new affixes, with more than 20 additional affixes for players to deal with. Elites will spawn minions that inherit some of their affixes, and affixes will in general be more powerful, requiring players to deal with them before taking out less-dangerous foes. Blizzard said that overall, monster affixes should overlap less in their design, be more visually clear, and be more engaging.

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Diablo 4 Season 11 is poised to bring huge changes to Blizzard's ARPG, and will overhaul item progression, see the return of leaderboards, rework the Renown system, and even dramatically change how the game's potions work. And that's not even everything.

While noticeable changes to the core of Diablo 4 come alongside nearly every season, most notably with Season 4's Loot Reborn, Season 11 still stands out. None of these changes were detailed in the game's 2025 content roadmap, and Blizzard has teased for months that many of players' biggest gripes with the game would be addressed in a coming update. Now we finally know what Blizzard has been cooking.

Masterworking and Tempering are becoming less random in Season 11.Tempering And Masterworking Overhaul

Perhaps the biggest complaint players have had since Season 4 regards the act of Tempering and Masterworking items. In the current live version of Diablo 4, Tempering allows players to add affixes to items but with a catch.

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Poe Ratcho can now pop up in Two Point Museum, thanks to a very unexpected collaboration between the simulation game and Vampire Survivors. The elderly protagonist isn't the only part of the free crossover, either, as Two Point Museum players can now put garlic on display and send experts out to three locations from the roguelike title.

A trailer for the Two Point Museum and Vampire Survivors crossover can be seen below, showcasing how discoveries can also be equipped to staff members in the simulation game. The three new locations from Vampire Survivors are the Mad Forest, Inlaid Library, and Capella Magna.

This isn't the first crossover for Two Point Museum. In August, the simulation game got a collaboration with Dredge. Meanwhile, looking ahead, Two Point Museum is set to launch October 28 on Switch 2. The title is already available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

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Windows 11 has been out in its current form since 2021, but Microsoft has grand visions of transforming its operating system into an even more AI-friendly system. Starting today, Microsoft is adding AI features to Windows 11 PCs that encourage users to utilize Copilot by speaking to their computers and allowing AI to perform some basic functions for them. These updates are being rolled out alongside an ad campaign that invites people to "meet the computer you can talk to."

"We think we're on the cusp of the next evolution, where AI happens not just in that chatbot and gets naturally integrated into the hundreds of millions of experiences that people use every day," Microsoft consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi told The Verge. "The vision that we have is: Let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC."

The new features sound similar to the Cortana voice options on Windows 10. For example, users will be able to bring their PC out of standby by saying "Hey, Copilot!" as a command. Mehdi also shared his belief that users will embrace voice controls on a greater level than they have in the past.

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Though there are certainly those who believe otherwise, a market-research firm has concluded that selling GTA 6 for $100 would not be wise.

According to IGN, market-research firm MIDiA Research conducted a new study on the pricing for Rockstar's upcoming crime sim. Leaning on the Gabor-Granger pricing analysis method and surveying more than 2,000 US consumers (a small sample size), MIDiA Research concluded that $70 is the consumerist sweet spot for GTA 6. Any more than that and revenue would tank.

"Our research suggests that GTA 6 will generate more revenue at a standard $69.99 price point than the much discussed $100," MIDiA Research's Head of Data and study co-author, Perry Gresham, told IGN. "A $100 price point would actually leave money on the table.”

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French developer Quantic Dream's upcoming Star Wars game, Star Wars Eclipse, remains in development, the studio confirmed today. The game was announced all the way back in 2021 and hasn't gotten many updates since then, but people fearing the worst can breathe a sigh of relief.

"Of course, development of Star Wars: Eclipse continues, and we are eager to share more with you in the future," the developer said in a blog post.

The game takes place during the High Republic era. That period, set before any of the Star Wars films, finds the Republic at its peak, but there are threats to the galaxy that players have to deal with.

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Game developer Hideo Kojima is famous for his unconventional approach to, well, everything he does--but even one of his sillier marketing moves for PS5 title Death Stranding 2: On the Beach didn't immediately hit as intended.

Speaking to Japanese magazine An-An (translated by Automation), Kojima recalled an on-the-ground marketing stunt that he and other Kojima Productions team members carried out in the streets of Tokyo, passing out Death Stranding 2-branded tissue packs that included a QR code for a rather cryptic trailer of the game.

It's a campaign that might sound unusual to some, but passing out tissue packs was once a common advertising tactic in Japan, akin to advertising businesses on matchboxes. The idea here is that passersby are being handed something with functionality instead of simple flyers, which are promptly discarded afterward.

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Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray)

$75 | Releases October 28

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Decades after the original manga series first premiered, Berserk is still regarded as the gold standard of dark fantasy. Since then, the manga has been adapted into multiple anime series--and while none have encapsulated the entire tale, each one offers a unique take on Berserk's first main story arc. One of the better versions is Berserk: The Golden Age, which began as a film trilogy in 2012 that was later adapted into a 13-episode OVA, and is returning soon with the new Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition Steelbook Blu-ray. This new two-disc set compiles the entire 13-episode series in an all-new steelbook case. It'll be available for $75 starting October 28, and preorders are available exclusively at Crunchyroll's online store.

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray) $75 | Releases October 28

Berserk: The Golden Age - Memorial Edition first released as a standard Blu-ray set, but this new upcoming version features an exclusive Steelbook case. It also comes a postcard-sized art card featuring Guts and the Band of the Hawk during the Battle of Doldrey.

Special features haven't been listed for this release, but it will likely feature the same bonus materials as previous Berserk: the Golden Age Blu-ray edition, which offered only textless opening and closing credits sequences.

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Berserk: The Golden Age is the second Berserk anime adaptation since the 1997 anime series, which also covers the Golden Age storyline from the manga. The trilogy offers a more faithful take on the source material, and it was later remastered and re-edited into a 13-episode anime series, which is what you'll find on the Memorial Edition Blu-ray. While the storyline is more accurate to the events of the manga, fans and critics were mixed on its visual style, which blends traditional 2D and 3D CG animation. Nevertheless, the film trilogy and OVA versions were both well-received overall, and this new Blu-ray should serve as an excellent way to experience one of the best story arcs in the genre.

If you don't feel like waiting for this new Steelbook edition, you can grab the standard Blu-ray version of Berserk: The Golden Age - Memorial Edition for just $42.14 at Amazon. It includes all the same on-disc content as the Steelbook edition, just in less flashy packaging.

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Battlefield 6 had a record-breaking launch, Electronic Arts has announced. The game sold more than 7 million copies to become the "biggest opening ever" for the Battlefield series.

This data lines up with what an analyst said earlier this week, estimating some 7 million copies sold for an almost Call of Duty-like debut.

"It's closer to Call of Duty-tier numbers than any of EA's premium-shooter efforts so far. But the question now is whether or not EA can foster this successful launch into a platform that stands the test of time," Anliena Analytics' Rhys Elliott said.

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