The 25 Best Arrowverse Episodes

The Arrowverse has enjoyed some amazing growth over the past six years. What started as one series about a hooded vigilante has ballooned into a massive shared universe that touches on nearly every corner of DC Comics lore. Between Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl, the Arrowverse is now several hundred episodes deep and still going strong.

Let’s take a look back and spotlight the very best of the best with our breakdown of the 25 greatest episodes from those four shows. Did your favorites make the cut? Read on!

One of the hallmarks of the Superman franchise is that both Clark and his cousin tend to have bad reactions when exposed to the many colored variations of Kryptonite. That was the basis of this Season 1 episode, as exposure to red Kryptonite brought out Kara’s dark side. It’s a lot of fun seeing Melissa Benoist take such an evil turn, but this episode mined its premise for drama as well as laughs. For a series that routinely struggled to find itself during its first year, this episode served as a welcome sign of what was possible.

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Freddy Krueger Lives: Here’s Photos Of Robert Englund Reprising His Role On The Goldbergs

It’s a Halloween miracle! For the first time since 2003’s Freddy vs. Jason, Robert England is slipping back into his glove of knives to reprise his iconic A Nightmare on Elm Street role as Freddy Krueger one more time.

Englund will guest star on a special Halloween episode of ABC’s The Goldbergs, titled “Mister Knifey-Hands.” A synopsis for the episode reads, “Despite Beverly’s wishes, Jackie’s parents allow Adam to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street and a disagreement between the families ensues. But Beverly dreams of facing off with horror icon Freddy Krueger, which teaches her an important lesson about her son’s relationship with Jackie.”

The photos from the episode find Beverly (Wendi McLendon-Covey) in a rather foggy dreamscape, where she encounters Freddy, of course, as well as a trio of creepy girls skipping rope–imagery that should look very familiar to A Nightmare on Elm Street fans. The images show that even though Englund has aged, Freddy is truly eternal. The actor looks as at home as ever in the glove, burned skin, and trademark sweater and hat of the monster.

This may just be a one-off appearance on The Goldbergs, but hopefully, someone will see England back in his old costume and take a hint that it’s time for Freddy to be back on the big screen. After all, Michael Myers is back, why not Freddy Krueger?

The “Mister Knifey-Hands” episode of The Goldberg airs Wednesday, October 24, at 8:00 PM ET on ABC. For more fall TV you should keep an eye on, check out our must-see shows.

Streaming Might Hurt Single-Player Games, But Survival Games Are Thriving

Online content creators are now, more than ever, the avenue through which many games are able to rise to success – or plummet to failure. Twitch streams and Let’s Plays on YouTube put thousands of new eyeballs on AAA and indie titles alike, serving as testing grounds for prospective new players as well as entertainment in their own right.

While some developers still fear that platforms like Twitch will hurt single-player games, one specific genre has demonstrated how to adapt and thrive in the age of Twitch streams and Let’s Plays: survival games.

Ever since the days of Minecraft, and later DayZ, survival games have found audiences on Twitch and YouTube. Games like Rust and ARK: Survival Evolved maintain steady presences on Twitch and YouTube years after release, and the genre isn’t slowing down either.

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WWE 2K19 Review

WWE 2K19, like previous entries in the long running wrestling franchise, is a good game. The core wrestling does a great job of simulating a WWE match, and the strike/grapple/reversal fighting system is a lot of fun. It’s got one of the best and most comprehensive creation suites of any game out there, and the way that it basically lets you do everything that wrestlers do in real life, in WWE 2K19, is kind of astounding.

But those are all things that have remained true for a long while now, and while WWE 2K19 goes to great lengths to fix it’s biggest flaws from last year, it still leaves a lot of long-standing issues unchecked that limit the otherwise significant improvements over 2K18.

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Stardew Valley Launching on Mobile This Month

Smash-hit farming and loveliness simulator, Stardew Valley will come to iOS on October 24th, priced at £7.99 / $7.99 USD (Australian prices not available at time of writing). It will arrive for Android at an unannounced later date.

“Rebuilt from the soil up” by London studio The Secret Police, in conjunction with original one-man developer ConcernedApe, the mobile version will include touch screen controls, a redesigned UI, and no in-app purchases whatsoever.

Check out a new trailer for a glimpse at how it’ll look:

PC players will be able to transfer their saves (albeit with no mod support) via iTunes onto the iOS version. No similar feature has been announced for console versions.

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Netflix’s Horror Guide Is Bloody and Scary

Throughout the month of October, Netflix is releasing a variety of terrifying titles just in time for Halloween, including adaptations of The Haunting of Hill House and the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, to name a few.

To highlight Netflix’s upcoming horrifying titles, the streaming provider has compiled a watchlist, based on the amount of blood spilled. It’s important to note that this is a subjective list provided to us by Netflix. For a look at the bloodiest titles coming to Netflix in October 2018, check out the chart below:

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George Romero Left Dozens Of Unused Scripts, And A Barely-Seen Film

Filmmaker George Romero’s passing left a gap in the horror landscape, but he’s left plenty of material to be used posthumously. The director most known for his work on the Living Dead series has reportedly left almost 50 unused scripts that could still be developed into films.

ComicBook.com reports that Romero had been working on Road of the Dead, a project still in development, along with the novel The Living Dead. Dan Klaus is currently working on finishing a rewrite of the novel. But several other scripts are still being looked through according to his wife, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero.

“George was a prolific writer,” she said. “He loved to write, and we have 40, 50 scripts that he’s written, and a lot of it is very good. He had a lot to say, and he still does, because I’m gonna make sure that he does. It’s my mission.”

In addition to unused scripts and his novel, Desrocher-Romero suggested we could see a full unused film from Romero’s early career as well.

“We have a film that he shot in 1973 that most people haven’t seen,” she said. “A handful of people have seen this film. We’re gonna restore it, and we’re gonna show it to Romero cinephiles. It’s a scary movie, but it’s not a horror movie, and it’s about ageism. Anyway, he has a cameo in it, and it’ll be fun. And we’ll show the movie, or get it distributed. It’ll be a project that the foundation’s gonna do. I think it’s the first project we’re gonna do actually.”

She noted that the lost film isn’t a zombie movie like some of his most famous work, but she wants it released so that his followers can see some of his early footprint. “You see how he shoots and the story. It’s a unique find. I’m so happy I have it.”

Pokemon From Diamond and Pearl Headed to Pokemon GO Soon

Pokémon from the Sinnoh region, where Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum took place, will be headed to Pokémon GO in the near future.

The official Pokémon website announced that these Generation 4 Pokémon, including Turtwig, Chimchar, and Piplup, will added to the game along with certain improvements that are “designed to promote an improved overall experience.”

Some of the changes that will arrive with the Gen 4 Pokémon are as follows;

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Pokemon Go Is Adding Gen 4’s Sinnoh Region Monsters

Your Pokedex is about get a whole lot bigger as The Pokemon Company and Niantic have announced that monsters from the Sinnoh region are coming to Pokemon Go. A new trailer, which has a nice Planet Earth vibe, shows brief glimpses at a Turtwig hanging out in a grassy area, a Chimchar rousing from sleep in a cave, and a Piplup swimming beneath a layer of ice.

“A vast new world is waking up around us,” the voice over says. “With more to explore than we could have ever imagined.” The trailer ends with a pair of red eyes emerging and, although the Pokemon they belong to remains cloaked in darkness, it looks very much like Giratina, a Legendary from the Sinnoh region.

Pokemon Go has received fresh injections of content on a fairly regular basis, and there’s usually always some sort of event or Raid for players to enjoy. As we approach Halloween–the holiday of spooky ghosts–Niantic and the Pokemon Company has kicked off the Psychic Spectacular event, encouraging everyone to stock up on Pokemon that absolutely tear through ghosts, which seems a bit unfair if you ask me.

The Psychic Spectacular event runs until 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET on October 14 and you’ll be able to catch Pokemon such as Abra, Ralts, Baltoy, and Slowpoke more frequently. Additional Field Research tasks are also available, and if you complete these you’ll get a little closer to running into Suicune.

October’s Community Day, meanwhile, is set for October 21. On this day the Steel/Psychic Pokemon Beldum will become available. As of yet Niantic hasn’t confirmed what special attack it will be able to learn during the event, but dataminers previously discovered the move Meteor Mash–Metagross’s signature attack–within the game’s code.