Embrace the Spooky Season: Dive into Thrilling Halloween Game Events
Welcome, fellow gamers, to a season of frights, delights, and digital scares! As the crisp autumn air descends and the scent of pumpkin spice fills the virtual world, it’s time to embrace the spirit of Halloween. This year, our favorite games are going all-out, offering a plethora of spooky events, limited-time modes, and chilling cosmetics. From heart-pounding battles against the undead to playful trick-or-treating experiences, there’s something to send a shiver down every player’s spine. Here at Gaming News, we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to the most captivating Halloween-themed events, ensuring you don’t miss a single spine-tingling moment.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone’s Haunting Revelations
Prepare for a frightful descent into the world of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone, where the shadows lengthen, and the ghouls come out to play. The “Haunting” event is now live, bringing a terrifying array of new map variants, limited-time modes, and spine-chilling experiences.
Explore Twisted Map Variants and Terrifying Modes
Step into the distorted realities of Halloween-themed map variants, each offering a unique and unsettling atmosphere. “Boo-Town” promises a nightmarish urban landscape, where the familiar becomes menacing, and danger lurks around every corner. For those seeking heart-stopping thrills, dive into the limited-time modes.
Slasher Deathmatch: Stalking the Night
Experience the ultimate hide-and-seek showdown in Slasher Deathmatch. Choose from a roster of iconic horror villains, including the infamous Jason Voorhees and the diminutive but deadly Chucky. Stalk your prey in a race against time, utilizing their signature weapons and abilities to instill fear and claim victory.
Zombies: Halloween Havoc
Zombies mode transforms into Halloween Havoc, pitting players against waves of grotesque creatures and sinister horrors. Battle against evil Jack-o-Lanterns, relentless hordes, and other holiday-themed abominations. Coordinate your strategies, upgrade your arsenal, and fight for survival in this thrilling co-op experience.
Warzone: Zombie Royale
Plunge into the undead chaos of Zombie Royale within Warzone. Experience the ultimate test of survival as slain players return as the undead. With night versions of Verdansk and Rebirth Island, the event amplifies the scares, transforming familiar locations into nightmarish battlegrounds.
Splatoon 3: Splatoween’s Ink-Splatting Extravaganza
Get ready to splat, splat, and splat some more as Splatoon 3 celebrates Splatoween! This year’s Splatfest poses the age-old question: Which spooky friend reigns supreme? Zombie, Skeleton, or Ghost?
Splatfest Showdown: Choose Your Side
Join the chaotic fun, and represent your chosen team by inking the stages, and battling opponents with colorful ink. With only a limited time to participate, dive into the Splatfest battles, and help your team claim victory in this ink-splattering extravaganza. The Splatoween event brings a fresh and engaging take on the beloved Splatoon formula.
Phasmophobia: Crimson Eye’s Ghostly Encounters
For those who dare to delve into the paranormal, Phasmophobia beckons with the Crimson Eye event. This thrilling co-op ghost-hunting game amps up the scares.
Blood Moon’s Terrifying Aura
Experience the intensity of the Blood Moon, as it casts its crimson glow over select maps. Investigate these locations, as ghosts become more aggressive, and sanity drains more rapidly, creating a truly terrifying environment. Brave the challenges, complete levels, and reap the rewards that await those who can survive the night.
Fortnite: Fortnitemares Unleashes Nightmarish Realms
Fortnite’s annual Fortnitemares event returns with a vengeance, bringing the island to life with a thrilling blend of horror and gameplay. The event features a partnership with the iconic rapper Doja Cat, who takes on the chilling persona of the Mother of Thorns, and transforms Fortnite’s island into the nightmarish Nitemare Island.
Nitemare Island: A Horror-Themed Reinvention
Step into the twisted reinvention of the island, and encounter a who’s who of horror characters. Explore this landscape as it’s been transformed by the Mother of Thorns. Whether you’re a fan of iconic villains like Jason Voorhees, or Wednesday Addams, the island offers a thrilling and immersive experience. If you’re a fan of KPop, the KPop Demon Hunters offer a unique, and awesome option for players.
Rocket League: Haunted Hallows’ Up to No Good
Get ready for some chaotic fun with Rocket League’s Haunted Hallows event. This time, the Up to No Good game mode channels the mischievous spirit of Halloween.
Up to No Good: Airborne Antics
Experience the thrill of keeping the ball airborne, as teams battle to touch it last before it hits the ground. In addition to the frantic gameplay, the event features Scooby-Doo’s Mystery Machine and other related items.
Overwatch 2: Halloween Masquerade: A Masked Ball of Mayhem
Overwatch 2’s Halloween Masquerade event adds a layer of depth and strategy, as teams don masks modeled after other characters.
Masked Mayhem: Unleash Unique Abilities
Despite the silly visual of Tracer wearing a Big Head cutout of Winston’s face, masks grant their wearers special abilities when paired with specific lore-linked allies, encouraging experimentation with team compositions.
Junkenstein’s Revenge: Co-op Horde Mode
Defend a haunted castle from waves of zombified Omnics. Coordinate your strategies, utilize your hero’s abilities, and fight for survival in this thrilling co-op experience.
Wrath of the Bride: Cinematic Co-op Chapter
Embark on a cinematic co-op adventure with Sojourn, Junker Queen, Kiriko, and Ashe as they battle terrifying foes in the twisting castle of Adlersbrunn.
The Outlast Trials: Invasion’s PvP Confrontations
Experience the thrill of betrayal in The Outlast Trials with the recently launched PvP Invasion Mode.
Invasion Mode: Sabotage and Survival
Players invade each other’s Trials while disguised as either Reagents or Imposters to sabotage their escape. Imposter gameplay emphasizes close-quarters stealth, as invaders wield knives.
Gorn 2: Fight of the Living Dead: A VR Bloodbath
Cult favorite VR arena fighter Gorn 2 gets a free Halloween-themed Fight of the Living Dead update.
Undead Gladiators: Survive the Arena
Players confront hordes of undead gladiators and other supernatural foes/bosses. Wield new themed weapons, including dual scythes, a crossbow, and the Resurrection Staff, which lets you revive fallen Rokibes as your own skeletal army.
Apex Legends: Raise Hell Event Unleashed
Apex Legends’ Raise Hell Event introduces a new Halloween Wildcard, where players choose between Reaper or Demon-themed Wild Cards, and gain supernatural abilities.
Supernatural Abilities: Embrace the Dark Side
Players can gain faster movement, infinite ammo, vampiric health recovery, and more, depending on the faction. During the event, players can earn pumpkins. Utilize these to buy new event items and cosmetics, including the coveted Mad Maggie prestige skin.
Dead by Daylight: Haunted by Daylight’s Terrors
Dead by Daylight delivers constant Halloween spirit. Its Haunted by Daylight October event adds more horrific twists to the experience.
Void Realm: Nightmarish Challenges
Players are tasked with accessing the bleak and nightmarish Void Realm, and completing specific tasks during matches rewards Void Energy. Utilize this to create powerful items and abilities.
Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost: Haunted Havens
Destiny 2’s annual take on Halloween offers the Haunted Alters and Sorrow and Red Rum(ble) PvE and PvP modes.
Haunted Activities: Loot and Lore
Complete event activities, and earn a greater number of bonus Engrams to buy holiday-themed loot. With the extension of Festival of the Lost, you have more time to indulge in the spooky season.
Marvel Rivals: Marvel Zombies: PvE Pandemic
If you’re a fan of the Marvel Zombies Disney+ series, the zombie plague is sweeping Marvel Rivals for Halloween.
Zombie Apocalypse: Control Heroes
The event introduces the game’s first PvE mode. Control Thor, Blade, Magik, Punisher, and Jeff to battle hordes of undead. Survive long enough, and you’ll have the privilege of taking on Zombie Namor and The Queen of the Dead bosses.
PUBG Battlegrounds x Skibidi Toilet: A Surreal Collaboration
In an unexpected collaboration, PUBG: Battlegrounds update 38.1 is partnering with YouTube animation show Skibidi Toilet for a surreal new arcade mode.
Skibidi Invasion: Confront the Toilets
Four players suit up to stop an invasion of the creepy singing toilets in the Miramar map. While not explicitly Halloween-y in the traditional sense, it’s certainly strange and unsettling, just like the whole Skibidi Toilet thing.