October comes to a close today, and thus we're afforded one last chance to enjoy all of the Halloween-themed content offerings in our games before they get replaced by new holiday-based cosmetics. Epic Games dropped some new content into Fortnite last week that provides players with a chance to pick up a rocket launcher that shoots pumpkins, and also added some appropriately themed missions.
It's officially the spookiest month of the year and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is getting in the spirit with "Willard Wyler's Halloween Scream." Willard Wyler, if you remember, is the enigmatic director (voiced by Paul Reubens) that dishes out all those challenges for you and your squad in the Zombie Mode. This special event runs until November 1, and includes Double XP events, a new co-op game mode, and some other Halloween-themed goodies.
The chaotic bullet-hell platform shooter Gunnihilation has been in Steam Early Access for about a month now, and developer Robo Pixel Games has been listening to the community and their feedback. Next week, the first big update to the title will hit on Halloween and bring with it some requested fixes, as well as some new content.
This past summer, Blizzard added a limited time event to their team-based shooter, Overwatch, that was inspired by the ever-popular Rocket League. The event was a way to celebrate the Summer Olympics and even featured new skins, sprays, and other items to collect. They've got a similar celebration underway for Halloween only this time, the new mode is a Horde mode based event.
It's that time of year when your favorite games drop in new content that is in some way, shape, or form, Halloween-themed. Such is the case with the free "Death Gamble" update to the cooperative dungeon crawler/defense title, Dungeon of the Endless, which adds a literal Death to the game (as opposed to the one against which you're figuratively battling throughout) that will offer players a very "special" deal.
Halloween might have come and gone (like Sandy’s wrath), but that doesn’t mean the spirit of it isn’t still lurking around the gaming world. If you didn’t already know, until November 5th (ending 9:00 A.M. PDT), gamers are still able to grab the special Halloween Challenge Banner for Mass Effect 3! Get on this now if you don’t already have it, because time is ticking!
In the not too distant past, item combination was a very familiar activity for me. I have memories of spending time in World of Warcraft on the holidays running around gathering different items and recipes to make special holiday items that lasted in novelty for all of about a day before I felt a little hollow inside...
Scream Fortress is an anual "event" set in Valve's free to play first person shooter, Team Fortress 2. This year though, things are a little different, thanks in part to an additional co-op mode that was added over the summer. The free update includes a haunted map where random spells are cast on players, for both good and evil purposes. The two-week-long event, which starts now and ends on November 8th, will also let players cast their own spells to buff their equipment like "shifting paint colors, ghost summoning, flaming footsteps and more."
This past weekend, Co-Optimus and hundreds of other organizations teamed together to generate roughly 2 million dollars to the Children’s Miracle Network through the 2012 Extra Life fundraiser. Though slightly different in the fundraising approach than us, the developers of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will join in this charity season through the new "Halloween Skin Pack" DLC, where all its proceeds will go directly to charity.
Halloween isn’t just a time for people to dress up spooky, because many games also like to follow in the trend as well. In one week, the holiday event will arrive, and with it a bunch of games with hold their own Halloween-themes that fans can deck their games with. Two great co-op titles, Happy Wars and Fruit Ninja Kinect want to have their gamers get in the spirit of Halloween, and they’re going to do it through small, fun-sized DLC additions.
