Month: October 2020

This week on Wrestle Buddies, GameSpot’s professional wrestling podcast, Chris E. Hayner and Mat Elfring welcome two different guests to cover a wide range of topics. From video games and action figures, to old, old wrestling pay-per-views and blow-up dolls, we cover a lot of ground this week.

First, All Elite Wrestling star and executive vice president Kenny Omega joins the show to talk about AW’s new line of action figures. Which toy is his favorite? How did these figures come to be? Kenny dishes on it all. He also gives us an update on the AEW video game we’re all waiting for, and lets us know whether or not blow-up doll wrestler Yoshihiko could wind be labeled All Elite one day.

Then, virtual reality talk show host and Mat’s friend Thom Clancy steps onto the soapbox to share some of his favorite wrestling memories. It turns out, he was at WrestleMania X8 in 2002–the show that featured Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock. That’s not the bout he was most excited for, though.

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A-Wing’s rock in a dogfight. Check out some sweet Star Wars: Squadrons multiplayer gameplay featuring this nimble, gorgeous-looking spaceship.

Involved flight mechanics add a lot to the space combat of Star Wars: Squadrons, though the campaign’s narrative components might leave you wanting.

Star Wars: Squadrons has a colorful cast of Rebel and Imperial characters including an X-Wing pilot who cut their own arm off, a TIE pilot who can never leave their suit, and a Force-sensitive A-Wing crew member.

Crash is back! Check out the first two levels of It’s About Time, played on PS4 Pro. Crash 4 releases on October 2.

Star Wars: Squadrons will be available on October 2 for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. This review in progress assesses the entirety of the game’s single-player story campaign and general game mechanics after 8 hours of play. Over the coming days, we’ll be testing game’s online multiplayer (a major component which we were unable to access during the pre-release phase) to see how it performs in a general release environment before finalizing our thoughts.

For all the ups and downs I’ve had with various Star Wars media products over the past few decades, the formative space combat simulations of X-Wing and TIE Fighter on MS-DOS (or at least, my memory of them) have always been a fixed highlight. It’s hard to go astray when you’re focused on the minutiae of inherently cool sci-fi fantasy planes, as opposed to whatever’s going on with Jedi lineages or space politics now.

There have been a few arcade-style Star Wars space combat games that filled the 20-year period since the last flight simulator, and some of them were even good. But Star Wars: Squadrons is now making a welcome return to some of the simulator intricacies, while still retaining a large degree of the approachable spectacle of the arcade-style flight games. And, based on the single-player story campaign, the balance Squadrons has settled on works very well and creates an experience that makes you feel as if you’re really an active participant in a Star War.

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To kick off the month of October and leadup to Halloween 2020, streaming service FandangoNow is offering a great deal on its huge collection of horror movies. Right now, you can own a bunch of great horror films in HD for just $5 each, including Hellraiser, Evil Dead, and more.

Standouts from the sale include Oculus from director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House). The psychological horror film centers around an antique mirror that causes terrifying hallucinations. Another favorite: The Invitation, a thriller about a tense dinner party that takes a dark turn. The Visit is a particularly creepy film about two children sent to stay with their grandparents, who begin to act incredibly strange. I also recommend XX, an anthology of female-directed short horror films. Of course, you’ll also find classics like Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead and the chilling Hellraiser, so there’s a lot to pick from in this sale, depending on what type of horror you’re into.

FandangoNow $5 Halloween sale

• The Belko Experiment — $5
• The Descent — $5
• Evil Dead — $5
• Hellraiser — $5
• The Invitation — $5
• The Last House on the Left — $5
• Oculus — $5
• Ouija — $5
• Scream 4 — $5
• Slither — $5
• Sweetheart — $5
• Twilight — $5
• Unfriended — $5
• The Visit — $5
• Warm Bodies — $5
• XX — $5

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