The studio behind Evil Dead: The Game is coming back to another famous horror IP for future games. In an exclusive with IGN, Boss Team Games revealed that it’s working on two games based on the original horror slasher film Halloween from 1978, with one being made in conjunction with writer and director John Carpenter himself.
“As a huge gamer myself, I’m thrilled to help bring Michael Myers to life again in this game, and my hope is to scare you silly,” Carpenter, who is “intimately involved” with the production, said. The game is also being built inside Unreal Engine 5. Halloween franchise producers Compass International Pictures and Further Front are also involved.
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People who’ve been following the director, who’s been behind some incredible horror movies and TV throughout his career, might know about his gaming habits already. He’s been very open about how all he wants to do is “play video games and watch basketball” and talking about how adapting Dead Space as a movie might be a cool project. You can find a lot of these anecdotes from Carpenter online, so it’s no surprise that a lot of his stories are making their way to video games.
There are other video games based on Carpenter movies. Toxic Commando was announced last year from Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment. It had a 2024 release window, although there haven’t been any updates since that initial reveal. Retro remaster and remake studio Nightdive also announced a remaster of 2002’s The Thing this summer.
Boss Team Games has two titles already under its belt. Its first, Cobra Kai: Card Fighter, is a deckbuilding fighting game based on the Netflix show, a sequel to the original Karate Kid franchise. The second is Evil Dead: The Game, an asymmetric 4v1 horror game in the style of Dead by Daylight, where one player takes control of a demon to hunt down and kill the other players.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Gaming laptops and I have a complicated relationship. One of my first gaming rigs was an Acer Predator that was already outdated when I bought it. I was a broke college kid, and that was the best I could afford. So trying out high-end gaming laptops is always fun. But ASUS' ROG Zephyrus G14 is a lot more than a laptop that can run AAA games. It is portable, so you're not lugging around a 2.5kg machine everywhere you go. It is built well, none of that plastic chassis, and can even function as a normal laptop outside of just gaming.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.