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This episode of New Releases has some great picks for both fantasy and anime fans with Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales and My Hero One’s Justice. October is also the perfect time to jump back into Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood in the new Requiem collection, or you can just boogie down with Just Dance 2019. Oh, and a little game called Red Dead Redemption 2 is launching this week. Maybe you’ve heard of it.

Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales — October 23

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC

Once the single-player campaign of the Gwent spinoff, Thronebreaker has become its own full-fledged adventure. You’ll be engaging in card battles and solving puzzle as Meve, the queen of Lyria and Rivia. With multiple endings, her story is one you’ll probably want to shuffle through a few times.

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Just Dance 2019 — October 23

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, 360, Switch, Wii U, Wii

Yep, there’s a notable game coming to the Wii this week. Just Dance 2019 continues the series’ trend of getting down with either motion controls or your smartphone. This year’s game includes hits from the likes of Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Maroon 5, and many more.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 — October 26

Available on: PS4, Xbox One

There’s almost too much to say about Red Dead Redemption 2 in a simple paragraph. You’ve got a massive open world where you can commit crimes, ride horses, get into gun fights, customize your firearms, and generally get into trouble–and the world will react to it all. You’ll be in the boots of Arthur Morgan for this outing, though fan-favorite hero John Marston will also make an appearance.

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Castlevania Requiem — October 26

Available on: PS4

It’s the perfect time of year for Castlevania, and Requiem includes two big ones: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood. They’ve both been modernized for PS4 with 4K/1080p upscaling and optional pixel smoothing. You can play in the borderless Blackout mode or let your gameplay sit atop some stylish HD backgrounds.

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My Hero One’s Justice — October 26

Available on: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but this is a fighting game based on the anime/manga series My Hero Academia. You can play as both the heroes and villains and tag in sidekicks to perform crazy multi-character combos. The battlefields have destructible environments too, of course.

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The next episode of New Releases is coming right at the tail end of the month, so we’ll be looking ahead at what November has to offer. It’s a big one, with some heavy hitters like Fallout 76, Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu / Eevee, and Battlefield V.

The new Halloween movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis opened in the United States and Canada over the weekend, and it was a massive success. The movie pulled in an estimated $77.5 million over the Friday-Sunday period, according to Entertainment Weekly. That’s good for the second-biggest October opening in history, only behind Venom, which made $80.3 million for its first weekend earlier this month. It’s also the second-highest start for an R-rated horror movie, behind only the killer clown movie It ($123.4 million).

Halloween, which is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, had a reported budget of only $10 million, so it’s already a huge commercial success, it would seem. Jamie Lee Curtis responded to the box office numbers with a tweet that also mentions that Halloween is the biggest opening for a horror movie with a female lead and the biggest start for any movie with a female lead over 55. She also points out that Halloween set a new franchise record for how much money it made on its first weekend.

The new Halloween is directed by David Gordon Green, who previously helmed the Seth Rogen stoner movie Pineapple Express, as well as the Sandra Bullock film Our Brand Is Crisis.As mentioned, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to play Laurie Strode as she yet again fights against the masked murdered Michael Myers. John Carpenter, who directed 1978’s Halloween, is attached to the new film as a creative consultant.

GameSpot’s review of the new Halloween was mostly positive.

“Halloween doesn’t reinvent the wheel or create a new subgenre of horror. What it does is take the best parts of all the films in the franchise, and deliver the ultimate companion piece to Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece,” reviewer Rafael Motamayor said. “It’s a film that not only has something to say about trauma and PTSD, but also delivers a bloody, fun time at the theater. Will Michael Myers return again? Who knows, but we sure as hell welcome him home.”

For more on the Halloween franchise, check out GameSpot’s ranking of the Halloween films. You can also check out GameSpot’s interview with producer Jason Blum where he talks about how they were able to convince John Carpenter to return.

The new Halloween movie crushed the competition at the US/Canada box office this weekend. You can see the full Top 10 list for October 19-21 below.

1. Halloween — $77.5 million
2. A Star Is Born — $19.3 million
3. Venom — $18.1 million
4. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween — $9.7 million
5. First Man — $8.6 million
6. The Hate U Give — $7.5 million
7. Smallfoot — $6.6 million
8. Night School — $5 million
9. Bad Times at the El Royale — $3.3 million
10. The Old Man and the Gun — $2.1 million

A new Halloween movie is in theaters, giving Jamie Lee Curtis the chance to rule the big screen once again as her iconic character Laurie Strode goes toe-to-toe with psychotic killer Michael Myers one more time. It’s the first time that Curtis has been in the role since 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection, which saw the death of Laurie come early in the film. Thankfully, the new Halloween pretends that–and every other movie after the first–never happened. The following contains spoilers for Halloween, so stop reading here if you haven’t seen the movie.

Interestingly, Laurie isn’t the only character Curtis is playing in the new film. While she’s not credited for it, the film legend also did a bit of voice acting work. In one scene, early in the film, Michael is killing people on–when else–Halloween. In one scene, he goes into a house and kills a woman with a hammer, before walking into her living room and pausing when he hears a crying baby.

Audiences are left in suspense, wondering if Michael is actually enough of an evil entity to murder an infant, before he simply moves on and continues his killing spree down the block. That crying baby, though, is Curtis.

Director David Gordon Green revealed as much to GameSpot and a few other outlets during the Halloween junket. “She does this f***ing baby cry, and so when we got really close, we used a real baby cry,” he said. “As you hear it coming around, you can hear a baby’s cry softly in the background. It’s her. But that was just a last minute idea.”

It was so last minute because originally, this moment wasn’t in the script. Instead, it was suggested by a crew member when they realized there was a blank spot in the living room Michael was walking through.

“At the last minute, we’re like, ‘there’s this boring gap here,'” Green remembered. “So it was going to be her husband asleep on the sofa and it’s like, ‘Who gives a s*** about her husband sleeping on the sofa? Whatever.’ But a baby crying, you’re like, ‘Oh, there’s an ethical choice here.'”

Naturally, we had to ask Curtis to demonstrate her hidden talent, which she was able to do on cue and to perfection. “That’s called an Easter egg,” she said.

Halloween is in theaters.