Sunday Review: The BG archive for the week of 10/12/14

Wow was this a packed week of content as we had more NYCC coverage, a pair of new iPads were announced, Warner Bros tok the wraps off their DC Movie slate, we went behind the scenes on Halloween: Otome, and -of course- our continuing Brutal Gamer’s Month of Terror series of news and reviews raged on.

NYCC 2014

• NYCC 2014: Batman introduces Batman/Forever stamps at the Con
• NYCC 2014: Diamond Select booth tour
• NYCC 2014: Dark Horse makes new The Witcher miniseries official
• NYCC 2014: Archie meets Predator. No, really.
• NYCC 2014: Diamond booth tour
• NYCC 2014: Square Enix booth tour
• NYCC 2014: NECA booth tourNYCC 2014: The best CosPlay of the Con
• NYCC 2014: McFarlane Toys booth tour

FEATURES

• BG’s Month of Terror: Our Top Scariest Video Games
• Reused Assets #3: Best. Segue. Ever.
• Backstage Pass Of Indie Games 1: Halloween Otome
• Behind The Songs Of Halloween Otome: Tyler Thompson
• Saturday Radar: GamesRadar’s best for the week of 10/13/14

GAME/MOVIE/BOOK PREVIEWS AND REVIEWS

• American Horror Story : Freak Show Premiere Episode (TV) Review
• Blue Estate (PS4) Review
• The Witcher Vol.1 (Graphic Novel) Review
• Runers (PC) Review
• Doorways: The Underworld (PC) Review
• The Walking Dead Season 5 Premiere Episode (TV Review)
• Hands on with Over 9k Zombies! on the PC (that’s a lot of hands)
• Abyss Odyssey (PC) Review
• Hands on with the conspiratorial Majestic Nights for the PC
• Life is Feudal:Your Own Impressions
• Fenix Rage (PC) Review
• Planetary Annihilation (PC) Review
• Maximum Overdrive (Retro Movie) Review
• Team Indie (PC) Review

VIDEO GAME NEWS

• F.E.A.R. Online opens up, is free to play right now
• The Evil Within shows more gameplay, lots more blood and gore
• Looking forward to Space Hulk: Ascension? Check out the new dev diary just released
• Software Sales Slump and the Xbox One outsold the PS4
• Lindsay Lohan’s Case against Rockstar Continues.
• Leaked Star Wars Battlefront 3 Alpha footage
• The Flame in the Flood Reaches its Kickstarter Goal
• The Evil Within creeps onto consoles and the PC
• Going on down to South Park… to play some pinball
• Surprise! The revamped 3DS is a huge hit in Japan
• Civ: Beyond Earth Intro Cinematic Premieres on YouTube
• PS2 chosen as the greatest console of all time by Amazon shoppers
• Behold the Hero of Thedas in the new Dragon Age: Inquisition trailer
• The seven deadly sins of Saints Row: Gat out of Hell revealed
• Halo: Spartan Strike set to assail Windows Phone and the PC
• Square Enix to develop Kingdom Hearts III on Unreal Engine 4
• The Nintendo Download brings more Castlevania to the eShop

COMIC BOOK, MOVIE, TECH AND POP CULTURE NEWS

*note- our NYCC 2014 coverage for the week is posted above

• The force goes on sale with the Star Wars Humble Bundle
• Epix plans an epic night of terror for Halloween
• Marvel to bring back multiple crossovers past for Summer 2015
• Warner Bros announces full slate of DC Universe movies and then some
• Apple announces a pair of new iPads