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Halloween 2008 is over. Hopefully, everyone had a good night, filled with some sort of spooky activity. But we don’t have to give up on the Halloween spirit so quickly, even though the month has changed and time keeps ticking away. We can still remember the good times that were had at this year’s event.

So, while you savor your hard earned candy, or the little tidbits left in the bowl because you over-estimated how many trick-or-treaters would come, take a glance back at the various Halloween stories Gamertell ran to prepare people for the holiday. In fact, many of the special Halloween events may still even be running, and you could have one last chance to take part.

• Creepy Games for Halloween Halloween is almost here and along with it comes scares of epic proportions. This year, why not get all that trick or treating done early so you can go home and get some serious gaming done…
• Free-to-play MMO Halloween 2008 event review If you’ve ever dabbled in one of the many free-to-play massive multiplayer online games, you’ll know that each one celebrates real world holidays in their own way. Halloween is no exception, with many different games from Nexon, Aeria, Joymax, IGG, GameMasters.com, GamesCampus, Outspark, Gametribe.com, Ntreev and OGPlanet all hosting special…
• The top 5 cliched gaming costumes for Halloween All right gamers, we all know tonight is the best holiday ever (aside from maybe the December holidays) because you get to dress up as fictional characters or strange permutations of everyday things (zombie nurse, anyone?) and eat tons of candy. And we all know gamers love to dress up as game-related things. However, a few costumes just don’t have their luster anymore…
• Important Importables: Creepy Japanese games Happy Halloween everyone! In honor of the spookiest holiday of the year and the fortunate (or is it misfortunate) coincidence that my column would land on this date, I decided that it would be a good day to honor some particularly spooky Japanese video games…
• Who’s On Crack in tech: Halloween Edition Each year we are offered tricks and treats by tech companies.  Some products turn out better than we hope and some far worse than we ever imagined.  For this Halloween Who’s on Crack, let’s take a look at who has offered more treats than tricks…
• Runes of Magic discovers the magic of Halloween Runes of Magic is still in closed beta, but that isn’t stopping Frogster from feeling the Halloween spirit. The MMO is going to have some special additions to celebrate Halloween 2008…
• Pirates of the Caribbean will be cursed on Halloween Wow! Pirates of the Caribbean Online has been around for a year already! It feels like longer, doesn’t it? Anyways, Disney Online has decided that a celebration is in order, to celebrate not only Halloween, but to celebrate the massive multiplayer online game’s successful first year…
• Xfire announces its 2008 Haunted Xfire Halloween Scavenger Hunt Xfire and OCZ Technology are holding a scavenger hunt during its 2008 Haunted Xfire Halloween Scavenger Hunt event until October 31, 2008. According to the rules, Xfire users have to find the answers to 11 questions based on the clues scattered throughout the website…
• Gaia’s Halloween Hysteria lasts ‘til October 31, 2008 Ah, Halloween. I still remember chanting “Trick or Treat! Smell our feet! Give us something good to eat!” hoping to find Candy Corn, M&Ms;and pieces of chocolate shaped like pumpkins in my bag. And like other towns across the United States, the variety of costumes you could dress in just…
• Outbreak in Liberty City multiplayer a Halloween prank Well kids, just as we were about to report the rumor that has been going around that the Xbox 360’s exclusive content for Grand Theft Auto IV may be a zombie infested outbreak in Liberty City, Rockstar made an announcement on its Rockstar Social Club that almost totally deflated our…
• Halloween on your iPod: Horror Express Before he was Saruman or Count Dooku, Christopher Lee worked with Peter Cushing (who did a turn in the original Star Wars as Grand Moff Tarkin) to create a series of classic horror films for the Hammer studios. And while today’s free movie wasn’t produced by Hammer, it’s certainly got…
• Halloween on your iPod: Carnival of Souls Time for another freaky (and free!) horror film for your holiday enjoyment. This time it’s the cult classic Carnival of Souls. Filmed by a director of educational shorts, the film makes excellent use of low-budget special effects and camera work to create jarring, haunting images…
• Halloween on your iPod: Night of the Living Dead The leaves are falling, the air is crisp, and we’re heading towards that time of the year: Halloween. Time to put a little horror on your video-capable iPod, courtesy of the fine folks at The Internet Archive. And, our first link of the season is the classic horror film, George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead...
• Dead Space to launch in time for Halloween EA has announced that its creepy survival horror game Dead Space will release on October 28, 2008 - just in time for Halloween…
• Manhunt receives M Rating and Halloween release The controversy that’s heated up the gaming world all summer has just received something of a happy ending. Rockstar and Take Two announced today (August 24, 2007) that a modified version of violent action title Manhunt 2 was awarded an “M” rating and an October 31, 2007 release date in…