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Forget Trick or Treating and Haunted Houses, stay home this Halloween and play some frightening game with your best friends! Of course, it would be better if you knew the best games to play.

So here you are, a list of some particularly spooky games you can play this Halloween, assuming you can get ahold of them. These should be enough to tide you over this long Saturday. There of course are many more survivor horror games on the market, but these are some personal favorites. Perhaps you and your friends should wear a costume while you play, to really get into the spirit of the holiday…

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Wallace and Gromit have been making people laugh with their crazy inventions and silly antics for many years. In fact, this Wednesday, November 4, 2009, will be their 20th anniversary, the day their first animated short A Grand Day Out  came out.

In honor of their anniversary, Telltale games is releasing all four of the Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures episodes on Xbox Live on November 4, 2009.

You can follow the wacky inventor and his faithful canine sidekick through the four adventures, from fighting off super sized bees that were bred for massive honey making, to running Wallace’s indoor beach hotel. Or from saving all the stray dogs in the neighborhood from a the mean Mr. Muzzle, to trying to keep ownership of a prestigious golf club.

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We all enjoy the Wii action and sport games for their realistic feel, well Penguin Unlimited, maker of some great gaming accessories, is coming out with three different bundle packs that utilize the MotionPlus accessory. The bundles include Samurai Sword, Golf Club, and Tennis add ons.

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I love role-playing games. They are definitely my favorite type of video game. I love that you can visit villages, do side quests and work along with some crazy people.

Unfortunately, there are some elements that I just hate including level grinding, hard bosses and un-skippable cut scenes, just to name a few.

Here’s a look at some of the best and worst aspects that both feed and frustrate my enjoyment of role-playing games.

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Ole! To all you football fans, I-Imagine Interactive’s Football Genius: The Ultimate Quiz for Xbox Live is all about the European type of football, soccer (so don’t confuse the title with American football).

As the title suggests, it is a quiz game all about the sport of soccer and it’s players. It covers everything about the sport: all the players past and present, all the countries, the cups, the coaches, everything. If there is something to know about the sport, it is in this game. 

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Hit it again Sam! Season 2 of Sam and Max: Beyond Time and Space by Telltale games is coming out for Xbox Live today (Wednesday, October 14, 2009).

Sam and Max are freelance police who team up and take on strange cases including a demon-possessed Santa and an emo vampire amassing an army of rave-loving zombies. With Sam’s smarts and Max’s snarky attitude, the duo is unstoppable. Each crazy tale is told in five adventure-style episodes.

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If you are a fan of those old space adventure games like Asteroids, then you will love Coreplay’s Ion Assault.

It’s a new arcade game available through Xbox Live where you can battle space aliens and other creatures while shooting at any and all asteroids that may be blocking you. The game takes place on one screen where you fly your ship, spinning around to shoot an aliens or any space debris that is in your way. As you destroy different things you earn power ups including augmented speed and a bigger radius for which to collect destroyed particles.

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PSP Firmware Update (v6.10) was released October 1, 2009, and is ready for download. This download is mainly for the PSPgo released the same time. It allows you to completely update your Media Go application on both the PSP and PSPgo and ensures that you can play all the newest PSP titles.

Some of the features of the update include…

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What do huge manatees, mutinous crews, and voodoo curses all have in common? The third installment of Tales of Monkey Island: Lair of Leviathan!

In the last episode, our hero Guy Brush and his ship were swallowed whole by an insanely large manatee. Once inside, Guy Brush finds out that the explorer (who is now a bit loopy) he has been looking for was also swallowed intentionally by the beast so that he could it to get to Le Sponge Egrande, which happens to be at the manatee mating ground.

Guy Brush will need the help of the explorers mutinous crew (who would prefer to just live in the manatee forever), to escape the beast, and eventually get to the sponge. But that’s not all; you also have to learn to speak manatee to seduce the rather vicious Leviathan: a large, angry, female manatee that guards the sponge.

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A couple guys named Ian and Brant Duncan have taken choose-your-own-adventures games to the next step and created one of the first ever live-action choose-your-own-adventure games called The Deepening.

In the game, a terrorist group has broken into a bank, is holding everyone hostage and has planted a bomb in the basement of the bank. You control the fates of the two officers set out to save the day; the by-the-book rookie, Stevenson, and the rebel, Bukowski. You make the choice between what they do and how they go about doing it, with each choice effecting whether or not they save the hostages or blow up in a huge fiery explosion.

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