Because you should be. Debuted on Netflix just in time for Halloween, this paranormal ghoul-’em-up is one of the creepiest new original horror shows since Twin Peaks, mixing childhood trauma, mental illness, and vintage gothic elegance into a sinister, unpredictable family drama staged in the “most haunted house in America”.
Last week Intel had its media event for the Core i9 9th Gen processors and some other products, bringing an end to months of speculation and guesswork as to how much the new chips will cost. Spoiler alert – this is probably the worst generational update for Intel in terms of price-to-performance metrics. If you have the bucks, the latest chip series won’t disappoint. But while I had this article covering the launch planned in the middle of last week already, it’s everything else surrounding the launch that delayed me finishing this article. There’s a lot to think about.
Red Dead Redemption 2 moseys into town next Friday, its balls puckered with expectation, and by now, the internet hype-o-tron is dialled to GIDDY UP. The Rockstar office too, probably, because the team has been clocking 100-hour weeks to finish the game and that’s actually kind of appalling, but testicle physics tech is complicated like that.
The launch last Thursday of a three-minute cinematic trailer for Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 single-player campaign – originally expected to be out by 2014, but it wasn’t, and it isn’t out even in 2018 and maybe (probably) it’s never coming out but don’t tell anybody who’s already paid real cash for polygons of virtual space because it’s awkward – has prompted additional, uh, “investments” from players of almost $1 million into its development fund, now totalling $195,768,020.
But the trailer’s got celebrities in it.
Friday’s release of Activision’s annual frag-’em-up franchise has set a new record for the publisher, moving more digital copies than any other game in its catalogue and beating out previous number one, 2017’s Call of Duty: WW2. On the flip side, and maybe not entirely unexpectedly, the game’s disc version is clocking its lowest sales numbers in more than a decade, and get used to it because the cyberfuture is now.