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Coming not long after Destiny 2‘s launch, last October didn’t see the franchise’s annual Halloween event, Festival of the Lost, take place. That changes for 2018, and Bungie is doing more than ever, adding a brand-new activity type, among other things. But of course the highlight for many players is the new gear and rewards you can get your hands on, all of which you can check out above.

A fixture of Festival of the Lost in the original Destiny was the variety of masks you can obtain and wear, and this year is no different. Among those we’ve already gotten a look at are Petra, Shaxx, and the Traveler, though the best of the bunch might be Cayde’s chicken friend. Masks can be obtained by purchasing them with Fragmented Souls. This is a new type of currency earned by completing Festival of the Lost daily bounties offered by Amanda Holliday.

We don’t yet know if there will be other ways of getting your hands on masks. However, we do know there is a special Bright Engram–the Ephemeral Engram–that you’ll receive in addition to the usual Steadfast Engram every time you fill the XP bar (assuming you’ve reached the level cap). These Engrams will contain a variety of new items, some of which will also be sold for Bright Dust at Eververse during the event.

Many of these items are also pictured above–there are Sparrows, ships, Ghosts (including one that looks like a cat), Ghost Projections, emotes, and more. In terms of usable gear, we know there’s a new auto rifle called Horror Story that you’ll be able to purchase with the aforementioned Fragmented Souls.

Alongside all of these new items to acquire, there are new activities to take part in. First and foremost is the Haunted Forest, where you’ll take on increasingly difficult enemies over the course of a 15-minute run in a modified Infinite Forest. This can be played solo or with a Fireteam of three (with matchmaking available if your friends are too scared to dive in). There’s also a murder mystery involving the cryptarch Master Ives; you’ll have to find out who killed him over the course of a questline that rewards Powerful gear.

Festival of the Lost goes live today, October 16, and runs until November 6. Its debut coincides with the return of Iron Banner, which has been revamped with better rewards and easier bounties to complete. Additionally, a new update–patch 2.0.4–launches today.

DC fans waiting to see Ezra Miller reprise his role as The Flash from last year’s Justice League are going to have wait a while longer. It has been reported that the troubled Flash movie has been delayed once more and is unlikely to hit theaters until 2021.

According to Variety, the movie was expected to commence shooting in March next year ahead of a 2020 release. However, the script is still being worked on, and it is unlikely to be ready in time to hit the production start date. The problem is that star Ezra Miller is also a key member of the Fantastic Beasts series cast and with production on the third Fantastic Beasts movie starting in July, the DC film can’t start until late 2019 at the earliest.

The Flash movie has never been formally greenlit and has been through a number of directors and delays since it was first announced back in 2015. Original director Seth Grahame-Smith was replaced by Rick Famuyiwa, who himself quit in 2016, citing “creative differences.” Warner then hired Joby Harold to rewrite the entire script, and at one stage, Back to the Future director Robert Zemekis was in talks to direct. In January, Spider-Man: Homecoming writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein were announced as directors.

Although it seems unlikely that we’ll see the Flash film any time soon, there are plenty of other DC projects in the pipeline. Aquaman, Shazam, and Wonder Woman 1984 are all due over the next 13 months, with the Joker prequel movie now in production as well. Beyond that, Margot Robbie is set to reprise her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn in the female supervillain team-up Birds of Prey, which hits theaters in February 2020.

It was also recently reported that James Gunn, who was fired from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 in July, is a writing a Suicide Squad movie for DC. A direct sequel to 2015’s Suicide Squad was expected to start shooting soon, but it has now been reported that Gunn’s script will be “a whole new take” on the story. Although Gunn has only been hired as a writer, it is also possible that he might direct the film.

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No matter how terrifying a horror movie can be, you know in the back of your head that the events that are taking place aren’t real. There’s no way a a kid’s doll became possessed by the soul of a serial killer and went on a rampage, murdering everyone in sight. Don’t get too comfy because plenty of these movies have roots in reality.

Now, before you go burning all your precious Cabbage Patch Kids, you’ll probably want to know which horror classics are based on actual or true events. Luckily, lots of horror movies seem to pull from one serial killer, and he’s been dead since the ’80s, so there’s no need to cower in the corner until the end of days. Some of these films stray far from the bounds of reality, while others stick true to their non-fiction source material. Either way, they’re all terrifying in their own rights.

Here are 40 movies, all of which are inspired by or based on actual events, and after reading this, you may just want to watch them all over again with your new perspective. How many have you seen? Let us know in the comments below.

The first post-launch content for Insomniac’s PS4 Spider-Man game is nearly here. The Heist, the first of three planned DLC chapters in The City That Never Sleeps series, is set to arrive next Tuesday, October 23, bringing a slew of new enemies, missions, and challenges to take on. It also adds a trio of new suits, which we’ve now gotten our first look at.

In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Insomniac unveiled the three new Spider-Man suits players will be able to get in The Heist. Like most of the other suits in the game, two of them are drawn directly from the comics: the red and black suit from Scarlet Spider II, as well as the Spider-UK suit from the Spider-Verse. Rounding out the trio is the Resilient Suit, an original design by Marvel illustrator Gabriele Dell’Otto. You can take a look at all three below.

The Scarlet Spider II suit, Resilient Suit, and Spider-UK suit

The Heist centers around Peter Parker’s love interest/villain, Felicia Hardy–better known as Black Cat. It will be followed by two more DLC chapters later this year: Turf Wars, which will arrive in November, and Silver Lining, which is slated to release in December. You can purchase The Heist individually for $10 USD, or get all three chapters together in The City That Never Sleeps bundle for $25.

That isn’t the extent of the new content on the way to Marvel’s Spider-Man soon. Ahead of The Heist, Insomniac is rolling out the game’s 1.07 update tomorrow, October 17, which will add New Game Plus mode, allowing you to play through the story again with all of the suits, gadgets, and skills you’ve unlocked. The update will also introduce two new trophies to earn, as well as an Ultimate Difficulty setting for an even greater challenge.

Marvel’s Spider-Man was met with critical and commercial success when it launched for PS4 last month. GameSpot awarded it a 9/10 in our Spider-Man review and called it “a superior Spider-Man experience that leaves a lasting impression.” The game has also been a big hit with fans, breaking sales records and having one of the highest Platinum trophy completion rates on PS4.

With the final season of Gotham premiering next year, the show’s producers have already lined up the next Batman-related series to take its place. Pennyworth will focus on the early adventures of Batman’s butler, and the show’s star has now been announced.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jack Bannon will play the young Alfred. Bannon previously appeared in the award-winning The Imitation Game, as well as David Ayer’s war drama Fury and the acclaimed TV show Ripper Street. He joins Ben Aldridge, who has been cast as Thomas Wayne in the show.

THR also provided a description for this new portrayal of Alfred, which sounds very different to the character played most recently by Jeremy Irons and Michael Caine on-screen. It states that Pennyworth‘s Alfred is “a boyishly handsome, cheerful, charming, clever young man from London. Honest, open-faced and witty, he’s the kind of person people would never take for a SAS killer. Alfred doesn’t know how to reconcile the kind-hearted boy he used to be with the cold, calculated killer he was forced to become. He’s a man on the make, who doesn’t know what to make of himself yet.”

Although Pennyworth is written and produced by Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller, it is narratively unconnected to that show. It starts production in London next week and will premiere on Epix in 2019.

In related news, it has been confirmed that Gotham Season 5 will feature a number of time jumps. This final season will be based on the “No Man’s Land” story from the DC comic books, and is expected to premiere in early 2019.

While we’ve known for some time that there are three Marvel movies heading our way in 2019–Captain Marvel, Avengers 4, and Spider-Man: Far From Home–it has been less certain what was to follow. This changed last week when Ryan Coogler confirmed that he was returning to write and direct Black Panther 2, and now it looks like Doctor Strange sequel is on the way too.

The news comes via the Canadian pop-culture site Pop Goes The World, reporting from Fan Expo in Vancouver. In attendance was Benedict Wong, who played Wong in both the first Doctor Strange and Avengers: Infinity War. Wong stated that he hoped to start shooting Doctor Strange 2 “at the end of the year.” Check the tweet out below:

While Marvel are yet to confirm Doctor Strange 2, this isn’t the first hint that it might start production soon. In August, director Scott Derrickson, who helmed the first movie, posted a cryptic message on Instagram. It was an image of Stephen Strange from Marvel’s comic books, with the caption: “See you in September.” It wasn’t clear to what that referred–and obviously September has been and gone–but Derrickson later followed with another comment, assuring fans that “I don’t tease.” In addition, Marvel boss Kevin Feige has stated that a Doctor Strange sequel will happen.

If Doctor Strange 2 does start production soon, then we can expect it be released in 2020. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was originally set to start shooting early next year, ahead of a 2020 release, but that movie is now reportedly on hold indefinitely, following the controversial firing of James Gunn back in July. If Vol.3 doesn’t happen, then Marvel will need to start production on other 2020 movies soon, Black Panther 2 presumably being one.

In related news, Avengers 4 directors Joe and Anthony Russo have confirmed that they have now finished production on the movie. They marked the end of shooting with a myserious image on Instagram, showing some kind of weird blue light. The still-untitled film hits theaters on May 3, 2019.

A new retro game console is on the way from Analogue, the company behind the Nt Mini and the Super Nt. The upcoming Mega Sg ($189) will play classic Sega Master System, Genesis, and Mega Drive games over HDMI, and there are plans to sell cartridge adapters for other systems down the road. The Mega Sg is also fully compatible with the original Sega CD add-on out of the box. Analogue claims 100% compatibility across all supported platforms. The console is available to pre-order now, and is scheduled to ship worldwide in April 2019.

Like Analogue’s two most recent consoles, the Mega Sg is the brainchild of Kevin Horton, who is widely regarded as an expert when it comes to recreating classic gaming hardware on FPGA chips. Compared to software-based emulation, a properly configured FPGA results in a technically more accurate gameplay experience than a traditional emulator. The differences aren’t massive, but for enthusiasts, the devil is in the details, and that’s where Analogue and Horton have historically come out on top.

The Japanese Mega Drive-themed Mega Sg ($189), and the Black M30 Controller ($25) from 8BitDo

It’s worth noting that the FPGA development scene has picked up steam with hobbyists, and the ongoing MiSTer project exists to help coordinate development around the Terasic DE10-Nano FPGA platform, which uses the same FPGA (Altera Cyclone V) as the Super Nt and the Mega Sg. There are many cores (systems) that currently function at varying degrees on MiSTer, including the Genesis, but with its support for cartridges and original accessories, including the Sega CD, the Mega Sg is poised to be the most practical FPGA-based Genesis around.

Analogue is pitching the Mega Sg as a reference-quality system, meaning that it offers clean audio and video signals without distortion or lag. Considering that the quality of Sega’s original 16-bit hardware fluctuated wildly from one model or motherboard revision to the next, and that other third-party systems consistently fall short, the promise of clean audio from the simulated Yamaha YM2612 sound chip is high on the list of Mega Sg’s feature set.

Thanks to the headphone port on the front, you will also have the option to connect directly to the system. Video options for the Mega Sg include the usual set of features for an Analogue system: scanline options, scaling and position adjustments, and HDMI resolutions of 480p, 720p, or 1080p.

The Mega Sg is being offered in four different color schemes, including white, in addition to versions that match the original Mega Drive and Genesis consoles released in Europe, Japan, and North America. Controllers aren’t included, but you can use vintage controllers, or the newly announced wireless M30 controllers ($25) from 8BitDo, which will start shipping in February 2019.

The Mega Sg CD expansion port. Like the Famicom Disk adapter for the Nt Mini

Every Mega Sg will come packaged with a Master System cartridge adapter, and Analogue has plans to release additional adapters in 2019 for Mark III, Game Gear, Sega MyCard, SG-1000, and SC-3000 cartridges.

In discussing the upcoming console with Analogue founder Christopher Taber, we learned that the only apparent unchecked box is support for 32X games, via the original add-on hardware or otherwise. With the original 32X in mind, the necessary passthrough ports don’t exist on the Mega Sg, and while Taber believes the device could be replicated on the FPGA inside the Mega Sg, he acknowledges that it isn’t feasible in time for launch.

Taber also mentioned that the company’s previously announced A/V digital-to-analog converter–used to connect the Super Nt and the Mega Sg to analog displays–remains in development. For a growing portion of the vintage gaming community, the ability to play old games on CRT displays is an important step towards authenticity. Nevertheless, if the Mega Sg lives up to the high-bar set by the Super Nt, it could be the first choice when it comes to playing authentic Sega cartridges on modern displays when it ships next year.