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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is off to a rousing start, and players who have jumped in already can get a leg up this weekend. Treyarch announced another patch, and alongside it comes the first Double XP weekend. Not to be outdone, the Zombies mode features Double Nebulium Plasma as well.

This comes alongside a substantial update to the game, with several fixes and improvements across each of its three modes. The studio specifically noted that it will include stability fixes for the Zombies mode. This comes shortly after another stability patch, so Treyarch isn’t resting on its laurels. The 2XP and Plasma is the headliner though, giving early adopters a chance to speed ahead and make some major progress quickly.

Black Ops 4 is the first game in the series to drop the bombastic single-player story campaign, instead focusing its efforts on three separate multiplayer modes: traditional competitive multiplayer, the popular Zombies mode, and the new battle royale Blackout. It does carry some story that ties into the Black Ops fiction, in the form of single-player missions following each of the multiplayer mode’s specialists.

That change doesn’t seem to have cooled its reception. The early sales are promising for Activision, and the critical reception has been generally positive. In GameSpot’s Black Ops 4 review, critic Kallie Plagge said the absence didn’t impact her enjoyment.

“Black Ops 4 isn’t short on content, and its three main modes are substantial,” she said. “Multiplayer introduces more tactical mechanics without forcing you into them, and it largely strikes a good balance. Zombies has multiple deep, secret-filled maps to explore, though its returning characters don’t hold up and prove distracting. Finally, Blackout pushes Call of Duty in an entirely new direction, making use of aspects from both multiplayer and Zombies for a take on the battle royale genre that stands on its own. Sure, there isn’t a traditional single-player campaign, but with the depth and breadth of what is there, Black Ops 4 doesn’t need it.”

To celebrate Halloween, the team at IO has flung open the doors of Hitman by offering a whole stage playable for free for a limited time. Plus since Agent 47 is known for dressing the part, he can take on the missions disguised as a spooky scarecrow.

According to the announcement, the Halloween Pack offers the Colorado location for free for anyone to download. You can access the Freedom Fighters mission, all of the Escalation and Featured Contracts, and make your own Contracts. Plus IO has made ten new Featured Contracts with a Halloween bent–telling spooky stories, causing wanton destruction, or dressing up in disguises.

Speaking of disguises, the pack also includes the very fashionable scarecrow outfit for 47. The whole pack is only available for a limited time, but IO didn’t detail when it will expire. Your game progress will transfer to the full game if you purchase it.

This appears mostly aimed at giving users a taste for Hitman’s brand of clockwork assassination-puzzles in time for Hitman 2. The sequel, which eschews the episodic model of the first, is due out on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 13. IO recently announced that actor Sean Bean will play its first Elusive Target in a limited-time mission available starting November 20.

PES 2019 will receive a big update in the coming days to add two new licensed leagues, new stadiums, updated player faces, and more. Data Pack 2.0 will include the Chinese Super League and the Thai League in an official capacity, as well as new boots and gameplay enhancements.

Publisher Konami says “the full list of the CFA Super League and Thai League club teams and logos” will be added when the update comes to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on October 25. In addition, the patch will make tweaks to AI performance: Konami states COM opponents will now include more variation in their attacking styles and goalkeepers will perform better in one-on-one situations. More improvements will be seen in chip shot accuracy, heading ability, and defender positioning, Konami says. New boots from Puma, Nike, and Adidas are included in the update, along with two new stadiums: AS Monaco’s Stade Louis II and esports venue the eFootball.Pro Arena.

PES 2019 launched in August to critical acclaim. We awarded the sports sim a 9/10 in our PES 2019 review, with critic Richard Wakeling saying the series “continues to make brilliant strides on the pitch.”

“For as long as EA continues to develop FIFA and hold a monopoly over official licences, PES will be the scrappy underdog just hoping for a surprise upset, even when it’s fielding the likes of London Blue and PV White Red,” he wrote. “The lack of licences for top-tier leagues remains a disheartening sticking point, but PES continues to make brilliant strides on the pitch, building on what was already an incredibly satisfying game of football to produce one of the greatest playing football games of all time. It might be lacking off the pitch, but put it on the field against the competition and a famous giant killing wouldn’t be all that surprising.”

For more on Konami’s challenger, check out our look at how EA and FIFA beat PES to football’s biggest licenses.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds‘ latest Event Mode, a 50v50 match called Platoon, will no longer go ahead this week, developer PUBG Corp. has confirmed. In a message on Twitter, the studio stated the event has been canceled “due to a critical error.” The company apologized and said: “Event Mode: Platoon will not be returning next week, but will return at a later date.”

Platoon splits the usual count of 100 players into two teams of 50, each containing five squads. The mode was due to launch on October 18 at 7 PM PT / 10 PM ET (3 AM BST / 1 PM AET on October 19), but will now not arrive until “a later date.”

This isn’t the first time PUBG has tried its take on the 50v50 mode. It briefly ran a similar event back in May, when it was dubbed “Desert Knights,” but server issues and crashes led to the mode’s discontinuation within 24 hours. PUBG has been beset by issues in recent months: as an apology, PUBG Corp. has offered some free in-game loot for players who log in on PC this weekend.

Of course, PUBG has a new challenger on the market in the form of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s Blackout mode. For more on those two and the third big battle royale game, check out our look at how Black Ops 4’s Blackout compares to Fortnite: Battle Royale and PUBG.

The new Halloween movie that brings back Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle is hitting theatres this weekend, and it’s expected to be a box office smash. According The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Pictures is projecting it to make $50 million or more for its opening weekend in the US.

However, that may be an intentionally conservative estimate, as THR explains that tracking suggests it’s on pace to make $70 million or more over the weekend. The R-rated movie only cost about $10 million to make, so it could end up being enormously profitable.

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. Nick Castle played Michael Myers in the original, and he’s returning for the new Halloween. 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.

Sony has provided updates for some of the titles in development at its Worldwide Studios, revealing that PS4 title Days Gone has been delayed. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Asad Qizilbash, vice president of marketing at Sony Interactive Entertainment America, confirmed the open-world survival shooter will now launch on April 26, 2019. It was previous scheduled for February 22, 2019.

In its statement, Sony said this was done in order to get out of a busy period and give developer Sony Bend some time to improve the title. “We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February timeframe to April 26, 2019,” said Qizilbash. “While the studio is eager to see Days Gone in the hands of fans, Bend Studio will take the opportunity to further polish Days Gone.”

In Days Gone players take control of a biker called Deacon St. John, who also happens to be a bounty hunter making his way through ravaged world on his bike. Days Gone’s brand of hellish apocalypse is made up fast-moving zombie-like creatures called Freakers that, based on the trailers, often seem to run around in hordes.

We played Days Gone at E3 2018 and, according to Oscar Dayus, it appeared to be quite basic. “The meta-game of character progression–as well as most meaningful narrative content and the entirety of the open world–was not accessible in the version I played,” he said. “My hope is that this was a bad demo, rather than a bad game … However, on present viewing, Days Gone will need to improve a significant amount … to become more than the relatively basic zombie shooter it currently appears to be.” You can read his full Days Gone preview here.