It's October, which means it's Halloween season, and the streaming service Hulu has quite a few choices in horror films being added added throughout the month. In addition, Hulu has new TV series being added and a few original series. Many of these arrivals happened on October 1, so there's plenty to dive into.If you're looking for some classic, Halloween scares, look no further than 1999's The Blair Witch Project. It follows a group of documentary filmmakers who travel to the woods of Maryland to uncover the truth of a local myth involving a legendary witch. They quickly find out that this isn't a myth at all. The film began the found footage genre of the '00s. And if you're looking for more in this genre, you should check out the Rec series. The movies revolve around a virus infecting the brains of its host, turning them into zombie-like creatures. Rec was remade in 2008 under the title Quarantine. All four movies in this Spanish horror series Rec arrived the same day, October 1.If scares aren't your thing, and you're looking for something a little lighter, then you'll want to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, which comes out on October 2. The classic claymation movie unites Christmas and Halloween in one bizarre movie, which is totally fitting for director Henry Selick (Coraline) and writer Tim Burton (Batman). Also, the tongue-in-cheek action movie Starship Troopers headed to Hulu on October 1, in case you want to watch Casper Van Dien shoot some oversized guns.Sadly, there are some great movies leaving the service. On Halloween, 28 Weeks Later, There Will Be Blood, Sixteen Candles, Any Given Sunday, and more will be leaving, so make sure to watch those before they're gone forever.Check out everything coming and leaving Hulu below as well as our recommendations for new and returning TV shows for the Fall that will surely be awesome.Here's what's coming to Hulu in OctoberAvailable October 1 60 Days In: Complete Season 4 (A&E) America’s Book of Secrets: Complete Seasons 1 & 2 (History) American Pickers: Complete Season 18 (History) Ancient Aliens: Complete Season 4 (History) Bob’s Burgers: Season 9 Premiere (FOX) El Clon: Complete Season 1 (Telemundo) Escaping Polygamy: Complete Season 3 (Lifetime) Family Guy: Season 16 Premiere (FOX) Hoarders: Complete Season 9 (A&E) Hunting Hitler: Complete Season 3 (History) Intervention: Complete Season 20 (A&E) Kingpin: Complete Season 1 (History) Little Women: Atlanta: Complete Season 4 (Lifetime) Little Women: LA: Complete Season 6 (Lifetime) Married at First Sight: Complete Season 5 (Lifetime) Nightwatch: Complete Season 3 (A&E) The Simpsons: Season 30 Premiere (FOX) Storage Wars: Complete Season 11 (A&E) The Curse of Oak Island: Complete Season 5 (History) Undercover High: Complete Season 1 (A&E) Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) American Psycho (2000) American Psycho 2 (2002) An Eye for an Eye (1966) Anaconda (1997) Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) The Armstrong Lie (2013) The Arrival (1996) Barbie Presents: Thumbelina (2009) Beacon Point (2017) Bees Make Honey (2017) Bitter Moon (1992) The Blair Witch Project (1999) The Blair Witch Project: Book of Shadows (2000) Blue Steel (1989) Bulletproof Monk (2003) Call Me (1988) Capture (2017) Charlotte (2017) Child’s Play (1988) Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992) Cinderella Man (2005) Closer (2004) Cocaine Godmother (2017) Comic Book Villains (2002) Daddy Day Care (2003) Dark Blue (2003) Deadly Blessing (1981) Death Wish 2 (1982) Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993) Election (1999) Evangeline (2015) Extreme Justice (1993) Flyboys (2006) Frank and Jesse (1994) Frank & Johnny (1991) Frida (2002) Galaxy Quest (1999) The Glass Shield (1994) Gods and Monsters (1998) Gordy (1995) Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) Heist (2015) Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) The House of Spirits (1993) How to Get Girls (2017) Insomnia (2002) Jayne Mansfield’s Car (2012) Jim Norton: Please Be Offended (2012) Joe the King (1999) Kicking & Screaming (2005) Kicking and Screaming (1995) The Long Riders (1980) More than a Game (2009) Mullholland Drive (2001) Music and Lyrics (2007) The Music Never Stopped (2011) The Night We Never Met (1993) No Vacancy (1998) Once Bitten (1985) The Others (2001) Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013) The Peacemaker (1997) Pieces of April (2003) Platoon (1986) Prancer (1989) The Presidio (1988) The Prophecy (1995) Raging Bull (1980) Reasonable Doubt (2014) Rec (2009) Rec 2 (2010) Rec 3 (2012) Rec 4 (2015) Robocop (1987) Robocop 2 (1990) Robocop 3 (1993) Rust and Bone (2012) Scary Movie (2000) The Second Arrival (1998) The Simone Biles Story (2018) Six Weeks (1982) The Son of No one (2011) Split Image (1982) Stage Beauty (2004) Stand Up Guys (2012) Starship Troopers (1997) The Tailor of Panama (2001) Texas Chainsaw Massacre II (1986) Trees Lounge (1996) Valley of the Dolls (1967) The Way of the Gun (2000) Wes Craven Presents: They (2002) Wild Bill (1995) Zombies of Mass Destruction (2010) Available October 2 The Nightmare before Christmas (1993) Available October 3 Dheepan (2016) Ma Ma (2015) RBG (2018) The Eye (2007) Available October 4 Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (Dubbed): Complete Season 1 (Crunchyroll) The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Complete Season 8 (Bravo) The Gospel According to Andre (2018) Available October 5 Into The Dark: THE BODY: Series Premiere (Hulu Original) La Diosa Coronada: Complete Season 1 (Telemundo) The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Complete Season 10 (Bravo) Station 19: Season 2 Premiere (ABC) Superstore: Season 4 Premiere (NBC) Will & Grace: Season 10 Premiere (NBC) Available October 6 Child Support: Season 2 Premiere (ABC) Dot.: Complete Season 2A (Universal Kids) Fresh Off The Boat: Season 5 Premiere (ABC) Speechless: Season 3 Premiere (ABC) Lowlife (2018) Pyewacket (2018) Available October 8 Alguien Te Mira: Complete Season 1 (Telemundo) Shark Tank: Season 10 Premiere (ABC) Available October 10 Miles from Tomorrowland: Complete Season 3 (Disney Jr.) What We Become (2016) Available October 11 The Quest of Alaine Ducasse (2017) Available October 12 Light As a Feather: Complete Season 1 Premiere (Hulu Original) Available October 13 Blindspot: Season 4 Premiere (NBC) Available October 14 Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja (Dubbed): Complete Season 1 (Crunchyroll) The Miracle Season (2018) Available October 15 The Alec Baldwin Show: Series Premiere (ABC) Birthday Girl (2018) Next Stop Wonderland (1998) Available October 16 El Fantasma de Elena: Complete Season 1 (Telemundo) Available October 17 Black-ish: Season 5 Premiere (ABC) Splitting Up Together: Season 2 Premiere (ABC) The Conners: Series Premiere (ABC) The Kids are Alright: Series Premiere (ABC) The Rookie: Series Premiere (ABC) Available October 19 Darling in the Franxx (Dubbed): Complete Season 1 (Crunchyroll) Available October 22 Results (2015) Available October 24 Overlord (Dubbed): Complete Season 2 (Crunchyroll) Available October 25 Daddy’s Home 2 (2017) Available October 26 Tadpole (2000) Available October 27 Midnight, Texas: Season 2 Premiere (NBC) Available October 29 Racer and the Jailbird (2018)Here's what is leaving Hulu in October: October 31 13 Going on 30 (2004) 28 Weeks Later (2007) American Gigolo (1980) Any Given Sunday (1999) Avenging Force (1986) Babe (1995) Barfly (1987) Black Rain (1989) Body Count (1997) Boomerang (1992) Bull Durham (1988) Cold War (2012) Curse of the Starving Class (1994) Dead Hands Dig Deep (2016) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) Double Whammy (2002) Eight Men Out (1988) Elizabethtown (2005) Fled (1996) Godzilla (1998) Hidalgo (2004) High Noon (1952) How to Build a Machine (2016) In & Out (1997) Invaders from Mars (1986) Jackie Brown (1997) Journey to Space (2015) Kazaam (1996) Murphy’s Law (1986) New in Town (2009) No Way Out (1987) Number One with a Bullet (1987) Original Sin (2001) Patriot Games (1992) Planet Hulk (2013) Point Break (1991) Rescue Dawn (2006) Signs (2002) Sixteen Candles (1984) Stir of Echoes (1999) Street Smart (1987) Street Smart (1987) The 13th Warrior (1999) The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) The Elephant Man (1980) There Will Be Blood (2007) Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011) True Colors (1991) Unbreakable (2000) Universal Soldier (1992) Up Close and Personal (1996) Pawn (2013) Precious Cargo (2016) Pretty in Pink (1986) Rabbit Hole (2011) Rare Birds (2002) The Rock (1996) Salsa (1988) Sex Drive (2008) Six Shooters (2013) Sleepers (1996) Snake Eyes (1998) Spaceballs (1987) Superstar (1999) The Suffering (2016) This is Spinal Tap (1984) Trade (2007) Witness (1985) Wooly Boys (2004)Info from Gamespot.com

October is here, and Amazon Prime Video has a whole slew of brand new content for you to binge, from movies to TV series to original content. There is a long list of new stuff being added, but we have a few suggestions for you to check out. Here's what you have to look forward to in the upcoming month.Because Halloween is right around the corner, you're probably looking for a few scares, and Amazon Prime has you covered. October 1 brought with it Clive Barker's Nightbreed. Craig Sheffer plays Aaron Boone, a rebel who is drawn to a place called Midian, where deformed monsters live. Boone becomes one of the monsters himself, and a serial killer tries to make Boone a scapegoat. It is Barker's most underrated film as a director or writer. Additionally, the Jim Carrey horror/thriller The Number 23 hits the service, and while it is not a good movie by any means, it is an entertaining movie to watch.As far as Prime Originals go, The Man in the High Castle has returned for Season 3, and Lore gets a second season on October 19. Also, the Amazon children's series Tumbleleaf gets a Halloween special on October 19.Below, you'll find a full listing of everything coming to Amazon in October. The vast majority of the service's releases for the month came on October 1. If you're looking for more subscription service releases for October, check out what Hulu and Netflix have in store this month.Everything Coming To Amazon Prime In October 2018October 1SeriesGrowing Pains, Seasons 1-7Happily Never After, Season 1Paradox, Season 1Pushing Daisies, Seasons 1-2Ravenswood, Season 1Scorned: Love Kills, Season 1Silent Witness, Seasons 1-21Spaced, Seasons 1-2The Thick of It, Seasons 1-4Trust, Season 1V., Seasons 1-2Movies88 (2015)[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)5up 2down (Getting High) (2006)A Boy Called Hate (1995)Adventure Scouts (2008)Almost Mercy (2015)America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)American Meltdown (2004)Among Thieves (2009)An Affirmative Act (2010)An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)An Eye for an Eye (1966)Appetite (1998)Assassins’ Code (2011)Bad Karma (2002)Being Canadian (2015)Beta Test (2016)Betrayal (Lady Jayne: Killer) (2003)Bitter Moon (1992)Blue Ridge Fall (End of Innocence) (1999)Blue Steel (1989)Boricua (2004)Break A Leg (2005)Bulletproof Monk (2003)Call Me (1988)Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)Caroline? (1989)Carrie (1976)Casting Couch (2013)Child's Play (1988)Cold Deck (2015)Comic Book Villains (2002)Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Ct (1989)Counter Measures (1998)Creator (1985)Curse of Chucky (2013)Dark Blue (2003)Deadly Blessing (1981)Deadly Closure (Armed and Deadly) (2010)Death Wish 2 (1982)Deceptions (1985)Destination Wedding (2018)Diabolique (1996)Dirty Work (Bad City) (2005)Driving Force (1988)Duress (2009)Election (1999)Extreme Justice (1993)Flatliners (1990)Flyboys (2006)Foreign Fields (2000)Frank and Jesse (1994)Frankie & Johnny (1991)Frauds (1993)Full Metal Jacket (1987)Funny Money (2006)Game Changers (2017)Get Smart (2008)Go Against the Flow (2016)Gods and Monsters (1998)Gone Dark (2003)Good Enough (2017)Handsome Harry (2009)Happy Event (2011)Henry's Crime (2010)Homage (1995)Honeymoon (1997)Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)I am Dina (2003)Il Sogno Nel Casello (2005)Imagine a School....Summerhill (2008)Imagine I'm Beautiful (2014)In Her Defense (1998)Intimate Affairs (2001)It Ain't Pretty (2017)Jackboots on Whitehall (2010)Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)Jigsaw Man (1983)Jim Norton: Please Be Offended (2012)Joe the King (1999)Judgement in Berlin (1988)Kalamity (2010)Kalle and the Angels (1994)Kettle of Fish (2006)Kicking and Screaming (1995)La Mission (2009)Leading Man (1996)Leave Me Behind (2008)Legend (1985)Let Me In (2010)Life of Significant Soil (2017)Love & Rage (2000)Marine Life (2001)Meeting Spencer (2010)Men Without Jobs (Planet Brooklyn) (2004)More Than a Game (2008)Mulholland Drive (2001)My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991)My Name is Water (2017)Nightbreed (1990)No Vacancy (2004)Nora (2000)Once Bitten (1985)Once Upon A Scoundrel (1974)Orange County (2002)Oxenfree (2017)Pieces of April (2003)Poltergeist lll (1988)Ponchao (2013)Prancer (1989)Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy (1993)Psychoanalysis (2015)Raging Bull (1980)Rap Sheet: Hip Hop and the Cops (2006)Reasonable Doubt (2014)Recipe for Love (A Mi Me Gusta) (2008)Regresa (2009)Resurrecting the Champ (2007)Return of the Living Dead (1985)Road from Erebus (2000)Robocop (1987)Robocop 2 (1990)Robocop 3 (1992)Sample People (2000)Satan's Little Helper (2004)Saving Banksy (2017)Second to Die (2001)September Morning (2017)Sexting (2011)Silver Hawk (2004)Six Weeks (1982)Something to Cheer About (2002)Somewhere Slow (2013)Spin (2003)Split Image (1982)Stage Beauty (2004)Stand Up Guys (2012)Starship Troopers (1997)Strange Bedfellows (2004)Sugar Mountain (2016)Texas Chainsaw Massacre II (1986)The Amityville Horror (2005)The Arrival (1996)The Black Knight Returns (2008)The Breakup Artist (2003)The Cell (2000)The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)The Face of an Angel (2015)The Fog (2005)The General (1998)The Guilty (1999)The Hard Ride (2011)The Hustle (2008)The Illusionist (2006)The Long Riders (1980)The Myth of the Male Orgasm (1994)The Number 23 (2007)The Peacemaker (1997)The Perfect You (Crazy Little Thing) (2002)The President's Mistress (1978)The Presidio (1988)The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)The Raven (1963)The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)The Second Arrival (1998)The Secret Life of Archie's Wife (Runaway Heart) (1990)The Serpent's Kiss (1997)The Skeleton Key (2005)The Strangers (2008)The Uninvited (2009)The Way of the Gun (2000)Threshold (1981)Throttle (2005)Tim Tebow: On a Mission (2012)Train Driver's Diary (2015)Trees Lounge (1996)Wild Bill (1995)Winter Break (2002)Winter Passing (2005)Year of the Gun (1991)Zombies of Mass Destruction (2010)October 2SeriesExtrano Enemigo (Prime Original series), Season 1Barbelle, Season 1Birth Stories, Season 1MoviesMighty Good: The Beatles (1977)Never Goin’ Back (2018)October 5SeriesThe Man in the High Castle (Prime Original series), Season 3October 6MoviesA Prayer Before Dawn (2017)Night of the Living Deb (2016)October 11SeriesMr. Robot, Season 3MoviesMonster's Ball (2001)Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)October 12SeriesThe Romanoffs (Prime Original series), Season 1October 13MoviesThe Yellow Birds (2017)October 14MoviesBleeding Steel (2017)October 16MoviesDevil (2010)Manieggs: Revenge of the Hard Egg (2014)October 17MoviesDonnie Darko (2001)The Daniel Tiger Movie: Won't You Be Our Neighbor? (2012)October 18MoviesSlice (2018)October 19SeriesLore (Prime Original series), Season 2Tumble Leaf Halloween Special (Prime Original series), SpecialOctober 20MoviesBlack Water (2018)October 25MoviesDaddy's Home 2 (2017)October 26MoviesBad Samaritan (2018)You Were Never Really Here (Prime Original movie) (2017)October 31MoviesWestwood (2018) Info from Gamespot.com

Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House is available now on Netflix, so you can start streaming whenever you want. Keep reading if you want to know what we thought of the full 10-episode season.Horror movies often save their biggest scares for the latter half, building up tension before exploding into all out terror. Extrapolate that over 10 hour-long episodes, and you have Netflix's newest horror show, The Haunting of Hill House. It makes for some fantastically scary final episodes and a relatively slow early half. If you can get invested in the Cranes' family drama, it's worth sticking through.That family drama can at first be hard to follow. The Cranes are a big, unhappy family, and The Haunting of Hill House jumps frequently between their childhood and adults selves. That means there are young and old versions of Nelly Crane (Violet McGraw/Victoria Pedretti), Luke Crane (Julian Hilliard/Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Theo Crane (Mckenna Grace/Kate Siegel), Shirley Crane (Lulu Wilson/Elizabeth Reaser), and Steven Crane (Paxton Singleton/Michiel Huisman), not to mention their father, Hugh Crane (Henry Thomas/Timothy Hutton), their mother, Olivia (Carla Gugino), and various other characters like Hill House's dual caretakers, the adult characters' various spouses, and more. Especially at first, it can simply be hard to follow which young character corresponds to which adult character, despite the show's sometimes half-hearted efforts to give them similar mannerisms or otherwise connect the young and old versions visually.The Haunting of Hill House follows the Cranes throughout their strange, cursed lives, from the moment they move into Hill House--meant to be a single summer spent remodeling the house so they can sell it--to, in some cases, their bitter ends. Hill House's first victim (among the Crane family, at least) is the mother, Olivia, whose mysterious death haunts the family for the rest of their lives. In the present, they wrestle with another death while fighting with each other over hurts both petty and real.If you stick with it, you'll eventually connect the dots, although stretched out as it is across 10 episodes, the drama can still be exhausting. That's in large part due to the show's structure. It's not just the constant jumping between past and present; the show also likes to show us only bits and pieces of events, deliberately keeping us in the dark until it feels like making certain reveals. The season's first half also repeats itself constantly, as each episode covers the same series of events from a different character's perspective (and remember, there are a ton of them). That makes for lots of repetition, glacial pacing, and an overall feeling of treading water.The upside of that is it makes each episode's one or two really solid scares all the more startling. And halfway through the season, when all the characters' storylines catch up to one another and they finally come together, things pick up considerably. Around the same time, the scares get more intense, with the greatest jumps coming late in the season. If you're in it just for those, you might find it taxing to sit through the early episodes. That said, there's plenty more to appreciate about the season as a whole.Take the house itself. Hill House is very well designed, with multiple set pieces within the structure that will quickly jump out and lodge themselves in your imagination. There's the red door that's always locked and can't be opened with any tools or force, and the red room behind it that seems to be occupied, though that's clearly impossible. There's the iron spiral staircase with the Chekhov's gun of loosely tied hemp ropes ever present tied around it, the eery statue gallery the characters barely acknowledge--like it's totally normal to have a room full of creepy sculptures in the middle of your home--and the dumb waiter leading to a secret basement that's not on any floor plan. By the same token, Hill House is full of strongly characterized spooks, ghouls, and specters. There's the Bent Neck Lady, a floating ghost who appears to Nelly in her bed as a child, and elsewhere later in life. There's the Bowler Hat Man, an impossibly tall Slender Man lookalike who rhythmically taps his cane despite floating above the ground. There's a gnarled old lady who seems tied to one bedroom, an ephemeral girl who lives in the woods and visits to play with Luke, and the manipulative 1920s flapper girl. And there may or may not be a zombie in the basement.The Haunting of Hill House is a horror movie in slow motion. It has too many characters, and gives too few answers. But it's also an atmospheric trip through one family's life, with a long, detailed view of the traumas they experience at the hands of a single haunted house and the ghouls that inhabit it. Even though it's slow at the start, it's worth seeing through to the end.The Haunting of Hill House is streaming now on Netflix.Info from Gamespot.com

Now that Netflix has canceled Iron Fist, and we've gotten a firsthand look at Daredevil Season 3 in all its glory, our hype for the original Netflix-Marvel universe show is higher than ever. Of course, that's in large part thanks to the return of everyone's favorite Daredevil villain: Wilson Fisk.Wilson Fisk--AKA the Kingpin--is up there with the best villains who have appeared in the Netflix Marvel universe, including Jessica Jones's Kilgrave and Luke Cage's Mariah Dillard. Heck, Fisk ranks among the best villains in the live action Marvel universe, period, from the shows to even the MCU films. At the end of Daredevil Season 1, Fisk was locked behind bars, but it's always been clear that he wasn't out of the fray for good. In many ways, Fisk's return in Daredevil Season 3 has seemed inevitable for a long time.But it turns out that's not actually the case. Fisk's return may be the best case scenario for fans, but it wasn't the only option, Daredevil Season 3 showrunner Erik Oleson told GameSpot during interviews at New York Comic Con over the weekend."When I walked in the door, Marvel had a number of ideas as options for me," Oleson said. "For instance, the return of Wilson Fisk. They knew that Vincent [D'Onofrio] was interested in coming back."Given fans' love of the villain during his previous appearances in the Marvel Netflix universe, including in Daredevil Season 1 and Season 2, it's not surprising that D'Onofrio was willing to return to the role. What is surprising is that Oleson considered other options."[Marvel TV head] Jeph Loeb had some cool ideas about it even before I walked in the door," Oleson explained. "There was also the possibility of using another major iconic character from the comics in the show. And I took kind of a bunch of options away to my writing cave, and I came up with what I thought would be a really cool story, and something that meant something also, and then brought it back to Marvel."Oleson didn't give any hints to who that other character was. But once he'd decided Fisk would make his triumphant return in Daredevil Season 3, there was just the matter of how the Kingpin would come back. After all, in the real world, going to prison tends to be somewhat final. As Season 3 trailers have already hinted at, Fisk is going to broker a deal with the FBI that will get him moved to more luxurious living conditions, although he'll remain in custody. "I wanted to treat Wilson Fisk like a spymaster this year, somebody who understood the dark arts of tradecraft, and had an expertise in the arts of manipulation," Oleson explained. "That came from, like, my dad worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA--I grew up in that world, and I know a significant amount about operational thinking and creating the conditions for certain things to happen without leaving your fingerprints on it. And I wanted to combine that with Wilson Fisk."So in the beginning of the season, he manipulates his way into becoming an FBI informant against other criminal organizations in New York City, and cuts a deal just to get physically out of prison itself," he continued. "And that start his journey of a multi-step process where we begin to understand that he has a much bigger game afloat, and he has orchestrated events in certain ways that leave no fingerprints, but which will pave the way for his ascent and re-ascent to power."As always, Fisk is going to be quite a bee in Matt Murdock's bonnet."He is a highly manipulative mofo," Oleson said. "Hanging out with Wilson Fisk is not going to do anybody any good. It's spiderweb meet fly. Just stay away from that dude."Wilson Fisk will make his long awaited comeback when Daredevil Season 3 hits Netflix on October 19. Read on about how Daredevil Season 3 is getting political.Info from Gamespot.com

Now that Netflix has canceled Iron Fist, and we've gotten a firsthand look at Daredevil Season 3 in all its glory, our hype for the original Netflix-Marvel universe show is higher than ever. And that's not least because of the impending introduction of a new, classic Daredevil villain: Bullseye.Let's not pretend that we all didn't know Daredevil season 3 was going to feature Bullseye even before it was officially "confirmed" this weekend during New York Comic Con. People have been speculating about his eventual entrance into the Netflix MCU since Daredevil Season 1, so even without the heavy handed foreshadowing and early guesses, this is a payoff that has been a long time coming.But now that we know we're getting him, we're going to need to learn about him. Who the hell is Bullseye, really? And why does he matter to Daredevil so much? The answer is, like most things in superhero comics, a little bit complicated.Bullseye got his start in Daredevil #131 in 1976 and was honestly kind of a joke for a while. He didn't really aspire to be much other than an extortionist thug and assassin with really good aim. He had a number of cheap money making murder schemes, including a contract to assassinate Matt Murdock, but Daredevil was largely able to beat him and send him to prison just about every time he showed up. These repeated defeats gave Bullseye a bit of a complex and he basically became a running gag for his early years. He'd show up, pull some grand gesture like kidnapping Black Widow to get Daredevil to fight him, Daredevil would beat him, and he'd get sent to jail.After a minor health scare (he got a whole plot about having a debilitating brain tumor, you know, as you do), Bullseye was hired by Kingpin to be his assassin on retainer--a confusing business move for someone like Wilson Fisk, considering Bullseye had basically proven over and over again to be a really, really bad assassin. Fisk promptly realized his mistake when Bullseye got his ass kicked by Daredevil that very day and fired him. While Bullseye sat in prison, Fisk hired Elektra, Daredevil's on-again-off-again flame--a detail that became crucially important when Bullseye eventually escaped from jail.This is where Bullseye stories start pivoting from running gags to real deal Daredevil drama. Bullseye attacked and killed Elektra by infamously impaling her on her own sai. Matt, of course, was less than happy about this turn of events, and the two broke out into a grief-fueled fight to the death that ended with Daredevil dropping Bullseye from a telephone poll. The fall shattered Bullseye's spine, paralyzing him. He eventually got better, but not after an incredibly dark encounter with Daredevil in the hospital where Matt forced him into playing a two-person game of Russian Roulette with a gun that was secretly unloaded, just to torment him.From there, things between Matt and Bullseye began to get exceedingly personal. Eventually, Bullseye recovered from his paralysis (because we're talking about comic books here, remember) and returned to Hell's Kitchen, where he proceeded to do everything within his power to ruin Daredevil--not for money, but for pure, murderous vengeance.For a brief period, Matt lost his memories and Bullseye took up his own Daredevil costume, cutting a swath of crime and murder through Hell's Kitchen to ruin Daredevil's reputation--a plot that probably sounds familiar to anyone who's watched any Daredevil Season 3 trailers. During that time he even began to believe he actually was Daredevil, which only served to make the psychological and personal stakes even higher.Later, Bullseye was responsible for the deaths of not one, but two more of Matt's girlfriends: Karen Page (so, yeah, maybe be a little worried this season, Karen fans) and Millia Donovan--which honestly might be a record as far as super specific murder is concerned for a single character. You've probably noticed by now that we haven't called Bullseye anything but "Bullseye," and there's a reason for that--he actually doesn't have a real name, or even a legitimate backstory. In the show, his name is going to be Benjamin Poindexter, which is one of the names used in the comics, sometimes. Other times, he's called "Lester" and "Leonard," but no names have been really confirmed. His history has been vaguely established and retconned several times over, but it's usually agreed that he grew up in an abusive household (he may or may not have killed his own father) and spent some time nearly pursuing a career in baseball--before he murdered a member of the opposing team for mocking him and was sent to prison.It's also usually agreed upon that he spent some time recruited for his brutal skill set by the NSA as an assassin. Unsurprisingly, he wound up being too much of a sociopath to make even a career as a government employed assassin work.It looks like we're going to get some version of these events in live action. We know that Benjamin Poindexter is an FBI agent who goes by "Dex," and we know that he's a really, really good shot. We know that he's very likely got some sort of shady past in the mix, and we know that Kingpin is going to wind up, potentially, manipulating him in some way. And we know he's going to put the Daredevil suit on and try to smear Matt's reputation.Beyond that? Anything is really on the table. Bullseye is closer to Daredevil's own version of The Joker than maybe any other Marvel villain--their grudge is brutal and forces both of them into some really drastic, horrible positions on the regular. No matter what the medium and no matter the universe, when Daredevil and Bullseye clash, no one comes out with clean hands.Bullseye will make his live action debut when Daredevil Season 3 hits Netflix on October 19. Read on about how Daredevil Season 3 is getting political and how Fisk winds up making his comeback.Info from Gamespot.com

Arrow is back, and that Season 7 premiere sure dropped a bombshell. There was a lot happening in the episode, between Oliver (Stephen Amell) stuck in jail, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and William (Jack Moore) being attacked by Ricardo Diaz (Kirk Acevedo), and a mysterious new Green Arrow making things difficult for the rest of the team to move on with their lives. However, none of that had quite the impact of the final moments of the episode.Through the installment, titled "Inmate #4587," viewers were treated to what looked like a new set of flashbacks to Lian Yu, the island that was blown up in the Season 5 finale. The first five years of Arrow relied heavily on flashbacks to fill in the blanks of Oliver's life, but after Lian Yu was destroyed, that way of telling the story was over--or was it?In this new flashes, another young man arrives on Lian Yu in search of something, before eventually stumbling upon the grave of Robert Queen, Oliver's father. In the end, it was revealed these weren't flashbacks. Instead, these were flashforwards to the year 2040. The young man in question is Oliver's son William, now an adult played by Ben Lewis (The Handmaid's Tale).We don't find out why he came to the island in the episode, but he does come across another familiar face--Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), now a much older man. To attempt to get to the bottom of the flash forwards--and their place on the show going forward--GameSpot and a small group of other outlets were able to ask showrunner Beth Schwartz about this new storyline."We're gonna keep [the flashforwards] all season and series," Schwartz admitted. When it comes to how they'll factor into character development, she explained, "Part of what I think made this series so successful in having the flashbacks is that you were able to really get into your characters. Especially with Oliver, you knew how he became the way he is. And now with the flashforwards, you're able to see what is happening in the present day, how that affects the characters in the future."What Schwartz wasn't willing to divulge is the answers we need. Why is Roy on the island? What brought William there? What's happened to Oliver at this point?These are the questions that will help drive the flashforward storyline this season, but they also shine an interesting light on the present day storylines. With a mysterious new Green Arrow unleashing vigilante justice on the streets of Star City and the resurfacing of Roy in the future, is it possible he's taken up the hood without Oliver in the picture?For answers to these questions, we're just going to have to keep watching. Arrow airs Mondays on The CW. Info from Gamespot.com

Starlink: Battle for Atlas is a game about flying through space, exploring new planets, and shooting a lot of aliens. Set in a seamless open-world galaxy, it sees you pushing back occupying forces by battling enemies, setting up outposts, and completing simple tasks set by your allies. For better and worse, it's a distinctly Ubisoft game, from the huge spaces (seven separate planets and the vast depths of space that separate them) to the maps overloaded with activities. But thankfully, Starlink is not quite so full that it feels bloated--just full enough so that there's always something for you to be working towards.Starlink is also Ubisoft's entry into the toys-to-life market--you're able to buy physical packs of pilots, weapons, and ships, all of which are interchangeable and have their own unique attributes and abilities. Constructing and attaching these models to your controller using a specialized mounting device will give you access to those characters and tools in-game, and while swapping between all these components isn't necessary, doing so brings distinct advantages.Starlink's combat is fun thanks to simple controls and the two weapon system--different enemies are weak against or impervious to different weapon types, and swapping the two weapons mounted on your ship will change your methods of attack and the kinds of elemental combos you can perform. Using a stasis missile on an enemy so that they float helplessly in mid-air, then setting them alight with a flaming minigun, never gets old. Every weapon can be leveled up individually and augmented with mods that you collect, so by the end of the game, your most-used guns will likely be able to absolutely rip through certain enemies, provided you have the foresight to equip them.When you're grounded on a planet, you'll be doing a lot of strafing and aiming for big glowing weak points, whereas fights in space are more freewheeling, with dogfights often pitting you against swarms of enemy fighters. These feel like all-range mode battles from Star Fox, and swinging around to land a precision assault on an enemy (often thanks to the game's rather generous auto-aim) is satisfying every time. The controls for each ship are the same, but there are minor differences between them; a light ship is better for maneuvering through a delicate situation on the ground, for instance, while a heavier ship can take more hits during battles.Like weapons, each pilot has their own upgrade tree and unique special ability, and they even get their own unique script during missions, which is a great touch. There are only a few big story-driven missions, and in the back half of the game, you're given some freedom as to how you go about weakening the enemy forces. There's an order of operations in each sector of space--clear out mining sites guarded by enemies to weaken 'Primes,' which are big robot monsters on each planet. Killing Primes on planets that are near each other will weaken a related Dreadnaught, a giant spaceship that will, in turn, produce more Primes if you don't take it out too.The one drawback to this structure, though, is that you're essentially taking on the same kinds of fights with occasional difficulty spikes. Taking out the game's three Dreadnaughts will make the final boss easier, and you can theoretically take on a Dreadnaught at its maximum strength regardless of how under-leveled you are. It's repetitive, but you also get a good sense of your progression, and the feedback loop of loot and rewards hits a good balance where you rarely feel like you're stuck grinding. The battles might repeat a lot, but they're consistently entertaining, and figuring out the best way to take down a huge enemy with the tools you have on hand is a satisfying challenge. The Dreadnaughts are particularly fun to take down--every time you take out one of their mounted guns a swarm of enemy ships will attack, leading to the game’s most intense dogfighting, and each encounter ends with a Star Wars-inspired "fly into the center and destroy the core" sequence.If you're playing on Nintendo Switch, you'll have access to Fox McCloud and his Arwing. He can call in one of the other members of Star Fox, complete with the Corneria theme from the original game, and if you're a fan it's very tempting to play as him the entire time. The Switch version consistently runs smoothly, although there's a visual trade-off. The planets are not particularly detailed, everything's a little fuzzier in handheld mode, and there's a lot of pop-in--it's weird to have an asteroid belt suddenly appear in front of you when you're flying towards a planet.But the Star Fox fan service throughout the game is a great bonus, especially in the mini five-mission campaign in which the team hunts down long-time antagonist Wolf O'Donnell. Wolf is a much more interesting enemy than Andross, as it turns out, and while this campaign is short it feels true to the spirit of the series. Fox and his team get integrated into the rest of the game, too, popping up in cutscenes with the rest of the Starlink crew.Unfortunately, the game's primary plot--which concerns a crew of adventurers trying to save their captured captain and take down the "Forgotten Legion" forces led by an alien named Grax--is much less exciting. Strangely, despite Battle For Atlas being the first and only existing game in the Starlink series, the script feels as though it's written for players who have a pre-existing relationship with these characters and their situation, meaning that there's not much in the way of pathos or catharsis to be found. Some of the characters are interesting, but even though the game is keen to throw lore at you there's little sense of who these characters are, what sort of universe they exist in, or even what their fundamental role is beyond needing to take down this enemy force.Despite this, it's always clear what your overarching objectives are and how you need to work towards them. There's a lot that you can be doing at any given point--even in the vastness of outer space, there are wrecks to salvage gear from and enemy outposts to take down. Wrecks can be identified from their flashing beacons and usually contain loot, while outposts are added to your map as you chase outlaws from planets. Exploring the depths of space reveals plenty of neat loot and fun encounters and the thrill of taking off from one planet, seamlessly flying into space, and landing on another never gets old.But Starlink's proposition as a toys-to-life product is hampered somewhat by the comparative financial value of the digital alternative. The physical starter pack varies in content between consoles, but they each give you far less than both the starter and deluxe digital versions, which unlock multiple ships, pilots, and weapons from the get-go. If you get the physical starter pack and don't want to buy additional toys you can still finish the game, but you'll be at an enormous disadvantage.Having multiple ships in Starlink essentially operates as having extra lives--if you get wrecked during a battle you can choose to either quit or replace the ship immediately. If you don't have a replacement, certain battles are going to be a real struggle, and progress doesn't carry over when you come back to them. It's easy to lose a ship, too, especially since your defensive options during fights are often limited--you can summon a shield or barrel roll, but both eat into your limited energy supply, which takes a while to recharge. The digital starter pack gives you four ships (five on Switch), which feels fairer and lets you worry less during big battles. Between ships and weapons (pilots are less vital), you'd have to buy quite a few toys if you wanted a varied and balanced experience.The ship models themselves look great, though, and while switching loadouts via the menus is always going to be the more convenient option, physically swapping out the components will pause the game the until your ship is completely decked out again. Changing pilots will require you to remove the entire ship first, but that's only a minor pain--the only real impediment is being able to remember which weapon does what by sight, but their designs are distinctive enough that this isn't an issue once you get accustomed to it to them.Starlink is an interesting and enjoyable open-world game, one that fully understands the appeal of exploring new planets and dogfighting in the cold depths of space. With a small fleet of ships at your disposal, it can be a lot of fun to progressively assault and weaken the Forgotten Legion's hold on the galaxy. It's just a shame that if you're interested in the physical models, you'll have to spend more to get the same experience as the digital version.Info from Gamespot.com

[Editor's Note: We have updated this review to reflect our experiences with Armello's Nintendo Switch version]Armello's hybrid of tactics, dice-rolling, and political intrigue has aged better than expected in the three years since its release, and on Nintendo Switch, the game is almost as formidable as it is on PC. Its charming blend of animal kingdom hijinks and turn-based strategy gameplay has yet to be replicated by a newer, flashier title; Armello has definitely held up well, and its uniqueness is undeniable. However, there are a few major differences between PC version and Switch releases, and not all of them are positive.The most important distinction is the fact that the Switch version includes all of Armello's DLC content. The Complete Edition of the game includes a bunch of morally-grey heroes, seasonal effects, and a whole new clan to contend with. While the base game has a fair amount of material to keep you occupied, a criticism of the launch content was that particular victory styles were incentivized over others. At their core, the DLC packs attempt to address that by expanding your potential champion pool with heroes that operate very differently from the original ones in the base game.Luckily, the champion pool increase is more than just a numbers game. The Usurpers DLC in particular has heroes which are brimming with devilish personality, along with playstyles that revolve around more than the just original victory avenues of skirmishing and keeping a death grip on the King's coffers. The Bandit Clan DLC adds around 50 new quests specific to this charismatic new faction, along with a thematically-appropriate follower that gives risk-taking players a second chance when taking up arms against their competition. The other DLC packs focus on mostly aesthetic and minor upgrades to dice variety, but they're still notable improvements on the range of material that was initially available.The unfortunate change to the Switch version is the performance. Unlike the DLC additions that are, on the balance of things, a net positive, Armello doesn't run as nicely on Nintendo's console as it does on other platforms. It's not the sort of frame rate drop that makes the game unplayable by any means, but there's a clear disruption in the smoothness and timeliness of actions and animations that play out on the screen when you're in-game. This isn't something that you can attribute to online connection troubles either; some graphical degradation was experienced in playing against the AI in the Prologue segments, which in itself contained condensed elements of the game's mechanics. If you can put that to one side, then Armello's unique blend of strategy makes it a worthy pick-up on Switch. -- Ginny Woo, 10/16/2018[Original review text follows below]When you don't have three friends and some reasonably good beer to keep you engaged, a board game--especially a virtual recreation of one--has to work a lot harder to hold your attention. Armello accomplishes this and then some, and while it could use some fine tuning, it remains one of the best virtual board game experiences available.At first glance, Armello can feel like a tangle of things--dice and cards and boards and coins and stats--but the quick four-part prologue does a good job of making sense of these pieces. Your primary actions include moving a character around the board to complete quests and avoid hazards. There are eight playable characters, and each character has different strengths, weaknesses, and abilities in addition to items they can equip to skew their stats in a slightly different direction. They also each have great-looking combat animations. Ever wish Disney's Robin Hood had 40% more bears punching each other senseless? Well, this game is for you!As if you can't tell Brun means business, in a world full of anthropomorphized animals, he's wearingsomeone's head as a belt buckle. To win in Armello, you have to either kill the king or have the highest prestige when the monarch dies due to a disease called the rot. Every full day--one turn for day and one turn for night--the King's health dwindles lower while his rot creeps higher, so no matter how things shake out, there are a finite number of turns that can be taken before the King will keel over on his own. It's also possible to defeat the King in combat, either by gathering four spirit stones from quests or tiles, or gaining a higher rot level than him. If a would-be assassin fails, the victory will automatically be handed to the prestige leader. Unless you're playing against clever friends, a prestige victory is almost always the easiest way to win. This can make the game feel unbalanced, especially when playing against AI opponents that frequently make ill-advised assassination attempts. That said, if you can resist the siren song of an easy victory or have other players wanting to spoil your plans, the varied win conditions provide enough variety to accommodate different play styles and keep things spicy through multiple sessions of playing with friends.You also have a hand of cards--which are as well-animated as the characters themselves--that can be anything from equippable items and followers to spells and tricks that can be applied to yourself, other actors on the board, or specific tiles. Imagine if you could slam your Hearthstone deck down on a Clue board and swarm Professor Plum with Murlocs, and you have an accurate idea of just how neat this is in practice. Cards all have different costs to play, and crucially, they can be played regardless of whose turn it is. This allows for some tense moments and sharp twists in matches with other human players. On the other hand, when it comes to the A.I. opponents, the game tends to jump around a bit too fast to take full advantage of that ability unless you're particularly quick on the draw.Long live the king!What Armello suffers from most is a lack of customization options, something it could have stood to learn from more-traditional strategy games. There's no way to define whether you want a quick or a long game, A.I. skill levels are static, and when you're playing with friends, you're bound to a move timer whether you like it or not. Graphics controls are also somewhat limited, which means that you won't be able to turn off the haze of clouds in the sky, which would be dlightful if you didn't have to look down through them when you zoom out to see the full board.Armello picks and chooses a variety of elements from board, card, 4X, and role-playing games without demanding either a familiarity with or a fondness for any genre. It also leaves a lot of room to engage as deeply as you want with the game's guts without feeling like you're floundering if you don't. Whether you're bumbling your way to the top or playing all your cards right, Armello makes regicide ridiculously entertaining. Info from Gamespot.com

A new in-game event is now underway in Pokemon Go. With the Legendary Psychic-type Mewtwo now available in standard Raid Battles, the developer is giving players the chance to capture even more Psychic Pokemon with the Psychic Spectacular event, which kicked off on October 5 at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET and runs until the same time on October 14. [Update: The Psychic Spectacular event is scheduled to end today at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET, making this your last chance to catch Psychic Pokemon more easily.]During the Psychic Spectacular event, Psychic-type Pokemon such as Abra, Ralts, Baltoy, Slowpoke, and others will appear in the wild much more frequently than they normally do. Additionally, Niantic is rolling out more Field Research tasks revolving around Psychic Pokemon; completing these will help bring you closer to achieving a Research Breakthrough and crossing paths with Suicune.On top of that, players will have a chance of finding Shiny Drowzee during the event. This marks the first time that Shiny versions of Drowzee have been available in Pokemon Go, so you won't want to miss your chance to capture one. In contrast to standard Drowzee and Hypno, which have yellow fur, their Shiny variants are pink.As previously mentioned, Mewtwo is now appearing in standard Raid Battles after previously being restricted to the invite-only EX Raids. The Legendary Psychic-type will be available as a Raid Boss until October 23. Meanwhile, the Mythical Pokemon Deoxys has now begun appearing in EX Raids, although you'll need to receive an invitation in order to participate in one of those battles.Pokemon Go players will be able to get their hands on another rare Psychic Pokemon a little later this month. October's Community Day is set to take place on Sunday, October 21, and it will feature the Steel/Psychic Pokemon Beldum. Niantic has yet to reveal what special attack it will be able to learn during the event, but dataminers have previously discovered the move Meteor Mash--Metagross's signature attack--within the game's code.Info from Gamespot.com

There's much to experience in the massive open-world of Ancient Greece in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. But as is tradition, the Assassin's Creed series has a very strange way of blending historical accuracy with bizarre supernatural elements--and Odyssey is no exception. While you'll mostly take on pirates, foot soldiers, and the sinister members of the Cult of Kosmos throughout the various locales around the world, there are some encounters that will take some extra effort to find--leading to Odyssey's most memorable fights against beasts of legend.In this feature, we breakdown Assassin's Creed Odyssey's most involved and unique quest-line, which pits you against some various mythological beasts that reference Greek mythology, including the deadly Medusa and the Cyclops. In addition to giving you all the details on how to find them, we also offer up some tips on how to overcome their unique challenges. Obviously, there are some spoilers in this article, which relates to the midpoint of the game. Proceed with caution.Where To BeginTo start your epic quest to vanquish the four mythological creatures hiding out within Ancient Greece, you'll need to reach the midpoint in the main Odyssey quest, which takes you to island of Thera, just north of Messara. After solving the puzzles to gain entry into the ruins, you'll meet a very important character inside, who will give you a new Odyssey quest-line called Between Two Worlds. This quest tasks you with finding four lost Isu artifacts that have been stolen, which are now hidden across the known world of Greece.While you may get the urge to drop everything and set out to complete this quest after the cutscene's finish, you're much better off holding off until much later into the main story. Not only will you have the proper gear to take out some of the harder challenges, some of the legendary gear that drops from these quests will also become more powerful. We'd recommend you finish the main story, which will take you through many of the islands and locales that house these lost artifacts. What follows is the best order to take on these creatures, based on level.The Sphinx And Where To Find ItMarked as level 35 quest, the Lord of the Sphinx mission tasks you with finding an artifact hidden in Boetia. Located on the southern coast of Lake Koapis, you'll find ancient Isu ruins shrouded in fog. At these ruins you'll find a discover a Sphinx statue and an NPC named Gorgias, who's searching for a piece of a medallion to unlock the secrets of the temple. Tasking you to find his apprentice, you'll start the next leg of the quest, which will have you travel to the Tomb of Menoikeus. Located in the northeastern part of the Scorched Rolling Plains region in Boetia, you'll find the remains of the apprentice, killed by a nearby alpha lion--which has also eaten the other half of the medallion. After securing the piece, head back to the ruins to proceed with the next part of the quest.Once you return, you'll find that Gorgias and the statue are missing. Before proceeding further, be sure to save your progress. Taking the piece of the medallion that Gorgias left behind, you'll be able to place the item on a pedestal in the ruins, which will summon the mythological Sphinx. Surprisingly, you won't engage in an actual fight with the Sphinx, but rather a game of careful wits. After conversing with the beast, the challenge begins. You'll only have one chance to clear this encounter, as offering an incorrect solution to the puzzles will result in instant death. Moreover, each subsequent reload of your save will see a different set of riddles offered up.Think carefully before giving your responses to the Sphinx's questions, as your answers also apply to several runes scattered around the ruins, which have to be activated after the riddles are complete. If you can't find the rune assigned to your given answers, then you'll meet certain doom. After making it through the riddles correctly, you'll best the Sphinx at its own game and collect your first artifact, along with a legendary Sphinx Figurehead for your ship.The Cyclops And Where To Find ItYou'll likely be aware of the location of this particular mythological beast early on into your adventure. Found on the Isle of Thisvi just south of Phokis (one of the first areas you go to after getting your ship), you'll find the ancient Isu ruins after diving into the Forgotten Isle's inner cove. However, the door leading to the mythical Cyclops is sealed, and will remain so until you take on the necessary quest. At a recommend level of 35, the quest that opens the chambers of the Cyclops is located on Kythera Island, towards the southernmost edge of the map. Head to the region known as Pilgrim Hill to find a quest giver near a statue, opening up the mission A God Among Men. By taking this mission, you'll eventually Empedokles, who believes himself to be a god. After assisting him throughout the Island, he'll venture off to the Isle of Thisvi to meet a fellow god.Once you head back to the small island, head into the island's underground to find Empedokles outside the door, who's ready to reunite with his fellow god. Suffice it to say, things don't work out for Empedokles, and you're left to do battle against the mythological creature. As one of the largest enemies in the game, the Cyclops--also known as Brontes, The Thunderer--has an advantage when it comes to range and raw strength. However, the boss' slow speed and lumbering movement can be taken advantage of. You can also aim the obvious weak spot of its glowing eye with your ranged attacks, dealing some solid damage. Halfway through the fight, the Cyclops will become more aggressive, resulting in some falling debris throughout the chamber. Keep chipping away while avoiding the falling the rocks to take him down. After the fight you'll acquire the next artifact, and along with the Polyphemos Cyclops Bludgeon, a legendary heavy blade.The Minotaur And Where To Find ItLocated in Messara, on the island in the southeast section of the map, you'll come across a small town in Minotaur Hills that worships the mighty beast. This area serves as a great place to learn more about the history of the region, level up, and gain some new gear--including a replica helmet of the Minotaur (which is just a bull's head fashioned into a helm). Just west of town, you'll find Knossos Palace ruins located in Mino's Legacy. In this area you'll find a child named Ardos, who's trying to rescue his father lost in the chambers of the Minotaur below the palace. Starting the Myths and Minotaurs quest, you'll learn more about the labyrinth and discover that you'll need to find the medallion to open up access.From here, you'll begin the Of Minotaurs and Men questline, which includes sub-quests around the region including Blood in The Water, Recollections, and Full Circle. Along the way, you'll interact with the allies of Ardos' father, local merchants, and assist the boy's current caretaker. The questline involving the caretaker will have you cross paths with the Swordfish, who just so happens to be a member of the Cult of Kosmos. After completing these tasks, you'll acquire the key to the labyrinth of the Minotaur. While exploring the maze, you'll find the body of Ardos' father, and not long after, encounter the mythological beast.The battle with the Minotaur can be quite challenging, which requires you to be at least level 40 to make a successful go of it. In this battle, you'll have to dodge many of the Minotaur's attacks and head in for an opening when its vulnerable. Its most powerful move is a ram attack, which you can fortunately see coming. The beast can also stun itself when it rams against an obstruction, allowing you to get some solid hits in. Staying and attacking at a distance is also an effective way of getting the upper hand against the beast. Once you defeat the minotaur, you'll get the next artifact and a new legendary axe known as the Minotaur's Labrys.The Medusa And Where To Find ItFor the final mythological beast, you'll need to travel to the island of Lesbos, located in the northeastern corner of the map. At this point in the game, you'll likely have finished the main story before traveling to this island, which is one of Odyssey's most difficult areas. To start the quest, head to the town of Eresos in the Petrified Valley, which is located on the southwestern coast of the island. In town, you'll find a female NPC named Bryce. After conversing with her, you'll start the quest Romancing the Stone Garden, which tasks you with finding her lover lost in the Petrified Temple. After learning more of the Temple and its mysteries, you'll need to new quest called Shadows of Serpents, along with all of its sub-quests that to open the pathway to the Medusa.These side-quests will take some time to finish, as they'll have you travel across Lesbos and to the nearby island of Chios. One mission has you infiltrate a village full of female hunters, all of whom are lethal archers and agiles fighters. However, if you already completed the Artemis quest-line involving the hunt for legendary animals, your choices in that mission can allow you to become the leader of the village, letting you come and go without incident. The other quest has you track down an adventurer who's made the dubious claim that he wields the spear that killed Medusa. After completing the necessary steps, head back to the temple to open up the way to Medusa's lair.The battle against Medusa is Odyssey's most challenging and complex encounter. Choosing to fight at range with a squad of stone mercenaries at her side, the Medusa can petrify targets--namely you--while also calling in aerial attacks that deal heavy damage. In order to remove her protective shield, you'll need eliminate her guards, all while avoiding her petrifying gaze and magic attacks. Throughout the room are several stone pillars, which can offer safe protection from her gaze. After taking out the minions, the beast will become vulnerable, allowing you to deal direct damage to her. During this state, the Medusa will teleport around the arena and immediately follow-up with a ranged energy attack. This will be a long fight, so be patient and stick with a certain rhythm of attacks, both ranged and close-range, and eventually you'll take out Odyssey's most difficult boss--earning you the final artifact and the legendary sword Harpe of Perseus.If you want to know more about Assassin's Creed Odyssey, check out our full-review, along with our breakdown of some useful tips to help you along your journey in the game.Info from Gamespot.com

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is off to a fast start. Activision announced in a press release that the newest Call of Duty instalment broke Activision's record for the "biggest day one digital release" in the company's history. Digital sales of the Treyarch-developed shooter surpassed the previous digital day one sales record-holder, 2017's Call of Duty: WWII.In addition to setting internal records at Activision, Black Ops 4 had the strongest day one digital full game sales on the PlayStation Store in its history. Black Ops 4 also broke the Xbox One record for best-selling digital game of all time for Activision.Black Ops 4 is also available on PC via Battle.net--and it was a success there as well. According to Activision, Black Ops 4 PC sales on Battle.net more than doubled the launch-day sales of Call of Duty: WWII, which was available on Steam. Black Ops 4, meanwhile, is available exclusively through Battle.net.Across all platforms, the number of players who connected Black Ops 4 online on the first day increased from Call of Duty: WWII, though Activision did not provide any details on how dramatic the increase was.Activision did not share any unit sales numbers--physical or digital--for Black Ops 4, and that's no surprise given that Activision and many other big publishers no longer share those details. Black Ops 4 launched on October 12 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Unlike almost every previous instalment in the mainline franchise, Black Ops 4 does not feature a traditional campaign. It does, however, have an ambitious new mode in the form of the battle royale mode Blackout, which is Call of Duty's response to PUBG and Fortnite. The game also includes new storylines in the fan-favourite Zombies mode, which developer Treyarch created.According to a Nielsen survey, Black Ops 4 is the most anticipated game of the holiday 2018 shopping season. GameSpot is currently playing Black Ops 4 for review, and you can check out our early impressions of Blackout, Zombies, Multiplayer, and more. Info from Gamespot.com

Research company Nielsen has released the results of its annual survey of the "most anticipated" games of the holiday season, and as you might have guessed, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 tops overall most-anticipated chart for multiplatform games.Rounding out the top five were, in order, Red Dead Redemption 2, Battlefield V, Fallout 76, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. No surprises here.Nielsen gets its data from an internal metric called Game Rank, which is described as the "overall anticipation level among gamers on each platform" based on measurements like awareness, purchase intent, and user rating, among other things. "The values reflect how strong the overall anticipation level is for the title, relative to the pre-release anticipation levels of all previous titles that released on the platform(s). In other words, an upcoming release with a Game Rank of 90 indicates that after considering a combination of various consumer measures, and taking into account how far the game is from releasing, the current overall anticipation for the game is higher than 90% of previous games on the same platform(s), when at that same point in the pre-release cycle," Nielsen said.Nielsen looked at 82 games releasing in the September 1-December 31 window. For multiplatform games, the values are averages of each title's rating on a single platform. To make the list, the game had to rank 70 or higher. Nielsen polled 6,000 "active" gamers aged 7-54 for this survey. With all of that methodology explanation out of the way, here are Nielsen's "Most Anticipated Holiday Games 2018" lists.What are your most anticipated games of the holiday season? Let us know in the comments below!MultiplatformCall of Duty: Black Ops 4 -- 99Red Dead Redemption 2 -- 97Battlefield V -- 94Fallout 76 -- 92Assassin's Creed: Odyssey -- 91FIFA 19 -- 87NBA 2K19 -- 84NBA Live 19 -- 72Shadow of the Tomb Raider -- 71Hitman 2 -- 71WWE 2K19 -- 70PlayStation 4 Spider-Man -- 100Xbox One Forza Horizon 4 -- 84Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate -- 98Super Mario Party -- 98Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu!Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee!Info from Gamespot.com

The fourth Avengers movie has finally finishing filming, directors Joe and Anthony Russo announced on Twitter. That's an exciting and important milestone in the film's production, but perhaps the more intriguing element here is the image that that brothers shared.The mysterious image depicts a bright blue light that apparently has some kind of connection to something that happens in the untitled fourth Avengers film.#wrapped pic.twitter.com/k8xCxiQL4J — Russo Brothers (@Russo_Brothers) October 13, 2018The follow-up to Infinity War is set to hit theatres in April 2019, following the release of the Brie Larson-starring Captain Marvel in March 2019. The new Avengers movie will seemingly wrap up a years-long story arc following the dramatic events of Infinity War.Chris Evans, who plays Steve Rogers/Captain America, recently talked about his emotional final day on set. Some Marvel fans believe Cap might be among the characters who could be killed off in the new Avengers film.According to ComicBook.com, Evans recently recalled at the ACE Comic Con in Chicago how the final line he recorded for Avengers 4 was "something really stupid" that he cannot talk about. Importantly, this was a scene he came back to set to film as a pick-up, so it's not the final line his character says in the film. "It might have been a line to Paul Rudd. He wasn't there, but it was a stupid line. The line wasn't memorable to me [laughs]. The day was more memorable than the line," Evans said.Writer Christopher Markus said the next Avengers film will be very different, summarizing it as: "We broke your heart. Now we're going to blow your mind." Info from Gamespot.com

As expected, Sony's Venom was again the weekend winner at the US and Canadian box office. The movie pulled in around $35.7 million in the US and Canada this weekend, which represents a modest and expected second-week decline of 56 percent from its record-breaking opening the week prior. It's now made $142.8 million domesitcally after only 10 days.Venom made $69.7 million at the international box office this weekend, and now the movie has made $378.1 million worldwide. All of these figures come from Entertainment Weekly.The movie had a reported budget of $100 million, so it appears Venom is already a commercial access. This makes the already expected sequel even more likely. For more, you can read GameSpot's end-credits scene breakdown here to learn more about where Venom 2 might go.Venom received a very poor reception from critics. The film has a 31% on Rotten Tomatoes and 35 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic--but audiences enjoyed it more. The film's B+ CinemaScore rating suggested that word-of-mouth would help its second-weekend box office continue on a nice pace, and with a drop off of only 56 percent, that's exactly what happened.Venom outpaced the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga musical A Star Is Born for a second weekend in a row, while it also beat out newcomers First Man starring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong and the Jack Black family comedy Goosebumps 2.October 12-14 US/Canada Box Office:Venom — $35.7 millionA Star Is Born — $28 millionFirst Man — $16.5 millionGoosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween — $16.2 millionSmallfoot — $9.3 millionNight School — $8 millionBad Times at the El Royale — $7.2 millionThe House With a Clock in Its Walls — $4 millionThe Hate U Give — $1.8 millionA Simple Favor — $1.4 millionInfo from Gamespot.com

It's October again, and that means time for Halloween festivities throughout a whole host of online games. Many announcements have already begun to outline the upcoming festivities, so we're keeping track of all the spooky specials. Many of these will be time-limited events with special rewards, like the Overwatch Halloween Terror event, so check out the active dates and plan your gaming accordingly.DauntlessThe Dauntless Dark Harvest event will kick off in the middle of the month, casting a shadow on the hub city of Ramsgate. It will introduce a new cult known as the Unseen, who worship a Behemoth. Slayers can test their might against a new Behemoth in the Shattered Isles and stores will offer limited-time exclusive items.DatesBegins October 17Destiny 2Destiny is bringing back its annual Festival of the Lost, the Halloween-themed celebration that offers some special masks and exclusive loot. This year, it will include a horde-like PvE mode, a special quest-line to solve a murder, and a unique currency to purchase masks and a special auto rifle called Horror Story. You can also earn new Ephemeral Engrams for exclusive cosmetic items. This will all be accompanied by the return of the Iron Banner event, with some tweaks to make it easier to obtain Powerful gear.DatesBegins October 16FortniteThe entire season is somewhat spooky, with the Darkness Rises theme and skins like the Dire Wolf. Plus the game brought back the popular Skull Trooper skin and made it a little easier to get the Ghost Portal Back Bling. We've gotten a look at some special leaked Halloween cosmetics. Those include skins, back bling, gliders, and pickaxes. No word yet on what creepy world events might be ringing in the seasonal content.DatesUnknownFurther ReadingFortnite Halloween Skins LeakedHearthstoneHearthstone's annual "Hallow's End" celebration starts on October 17 and lasts through Halloween on October 31. Logging in during the event will net you a free golden Witch's Cauldron card, and the Headless Horseman will return for a new Tavern Brawl starring the characters from the Monster Hunt mode. You'll also be able to take part in a dual class Arena mode, and characters will use Hallow's End emotes. Finally, the event will accompany the launch of a new Paladin hero for purchase with a new Witchwood bundle.DatesOctober 17-31Further ReadingOfficial SiteKilling Floor 2Killing Floor 2 has already introduced its Halloween Horrors: Monster Masquerade update. The sprawling update includes a new Monster Ball map, along with Halloween-themed looks and effects for all the zeds and bosses. Plus you can access new weapons and limited-time items to take them all down.DatesAvailable NowFurther ReadingOfficial SiteOverwatchOverwatch's annual Halloween Terror event is once again here. Each year the Halloween Terror event continues the story of Junkenstein's monster, and this one serves up two separate PvE modes: Classic and Endless Night. The event is always a debuts several new Halloween-themed skins, emotes, sprays, and more. It is going on now through October 31, and Blizzard has revealed all the nifty new costumes.DatesOctober 9-31Rocket LeagueRocket League is bringing back its Haunted Hallows event on October 15. You can earn "Candy Corn" currency for playing online matches, which can then be used to cash in for limited cosmetics like decals, toppers, and wheels. You can also gain a Golden Pumpkin that will contain a customization item from the Nitro, Turbo, or Player's choice crates. The event will end on November 5, and your Candy Corn will expire on November 8, so make sure you cash it in fast.DatesOctober 15Further ReadingOfficial SiteSplatoon 2The Splatoon 2 version of a Halloween gathering is a twist on its usual monthly Splatfests, appropriately named Splatoween. It will start October 19 and last through October 21, with players picking their sides in a Turf Wars between Team Trick and Team Treat. Inkopolis will also be updated with Halloween decorations, and the squid kids will get a chance at four special Splatoween headgear that can be kept after the event is over. You'll have to go through the Nintendo Switch News app to get them, however.DatesOctober 19-21Info from Gamespot.com