Welcome back, everyone! It is the last day of October. Halloween. The end of the week. Things are great and we have the 100 best memes of October coming ...

With Halloween here, 15 Substack writers explore the evil figures and forces that define videogames and why they matter.

So, what will be the Best New FPS Games of 2026? There's a lot to pick from, so allow us to break it all down!

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.