Sea of Thieves' latest update is here, bringing with it the appropriately Halloween-y Festival of the Damned - alongside a variety of limited-time treats, new face paint, and, most importantly of all, coloured ship lanterns.

All told, the Festival of the Damned is one of Sea of Thieves' simpler Bilge Rat Adventure offerings - which, for those unfamiliar, is the name given to Rare's bi-weekly mini-events that come between large-scale content updates.

Essentially, this latest event is themed around death. There's a new Well of Fates to be found on the Ferry of the Damned, and its flame will change colour depending on the form of grisly demise that brings you aboard the ghost ship. Get killed by a shark, for instance, and a blue flame will be yours. These coloured flames can then be carried back to the land of the living - and used to light beacons hidden across the world.

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As you might recall, last year brought the news that Costume Quest, developer Double Fine's delightful trick-or-treaty Halloween RPG, was to be turned into an animated TV series. That's still a thing that's happening - and if you need further proof, it now has an opening title sequence!

Costume Quest's TV adaptation is the work of Frederator Studios (also responsible for Adventure Time and Netflix's Castlevania), and is scheduled to air on Amazon Video next year.

Unsurprisingly, it doesn't sound like the show will doggedly adhere to the (very slight) stories told in Double Fine's original Costume Quest or its 2014 sequel, but the fundamentals are more or less the same. According to Cartoon Hangover, the TV series "stars four kids facing off against the dark forces lurking in the shadows of their sleepy town of Auburn Hollow."

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Accolade has announced that its irrepressible 90s mascot Bubsy the Bobcat will, somewhat inexplicably, be returning in a brand-new game next year. But wait, no, come back! It sounds like this one could actually be good?!

Bubsy: Paws on Fire, as next year's offering will be known, is actually the sixth Bubsy game to be released since the series' inception in 1993. Bubsy's debut title, Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind, was pretty well-received, but enthusiasm didn't last long. Bubsy's downhill trajectory reached its nadir around the time of his first 3D adventure for PlayStation in 1996, and last year's baffling Bubsy revival - The Woolies Strike Back - was forgettable at best.

Presumably, however, there are enough people still invested in Bubsy's plight to warrant this upcoming sixth outing - and, presumably, publisher Accolade wants better for its mascot than an eternity spent languishing in the depths of mediocrity. Because Bubsy's in good hands for Paws on Fire, with the game being handled by Choice Provisions - the studio responsible for the excellent rhythm-platform series, Bit.Trip Runner.

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If you're eager to learn what's in store for Just Cause 4 after release (despite not having, you know, even managed to play the base game yet), there's some good news! Square Enix has revealed first details on the post-launch DLC coming to its open-world stunt-action extravaganza in 2019.

Just Cause 4's post-launch DLC will, says Square, consist of three separate content "packs", each with its own distinct theme. For instance, pack one (also known as Dare Devils), is a racing-focussed instalment in which Rico takes on the gangs of the Sol s underground, challenging them to "heart stopping death races and rampage rallies".

Just Cause 4's second DLC pack, Demons, takes a turn for the supernatural, and sees Rico face an ancient demonic force that threatens the inhabitants of Sol s. Its third and final DLC pack, Danger, apparently introduces new advanced technology, new secret weapons, and specially trained operatives - all thanks to the mysterious arrival of Rico's former employer.

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'Tis All Hallows' Eve, and Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games is getting into the spirit (!) of things with a suitably spooky new trailer for its upcoming Dark Pictures Anthology - which also introduces us to the series' sinister narrator, otherwise known as The Curator.

Supermassive's Dark Pictures Anthology looks to build on the entertaining template established in its PS4 slasher Until Dawn, and will apparently represent a range of horror sub-genres across its full run. When the series was unveiled earlier this year, Supermassive said it had a possible 39 sub-genres in mind - but admitted that covering them all might "take some time".

Regardless of the number of instalments the Dark Pictures Anthology eventually receives, the intention is to have one constant throughout - a mysterious entity known as The Curator, played by The Crown and Preacher actor Pip Torrens. Here he is now:

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I have been known, when the planets are aligned, to make the sweetcorn chowder from Nigella Express, which is Nigella's best book even if I wonder if it would kill her to season things now and then. Anyway, it is a treat to make and a treat to eat - although I warn you in advance to give it time to cool, since sweetcorn, it transpires, has a capacity to retain heat that is almost singular amongst cooking materials.

The chowder itself is mainly a business of blitzing and then stirring on the hob, but as an accompaniment Nigella suggests nachos baked in the oven, and it was while baking these nachos the other day that I discovered that my oven makes the treasure chest noise from Fortnite.

What a mixture this noise conjures within me. Opportunity, certainly, for loot. And truly, there is a mysteriously avaricious note to the shimmering sound that alerts you to the fact that a chest is nearby. But avarice is never simple. I have lost many games of Fornite specifically because I have found one chest in the attic of an old house, and then discovered, once it has been opened, that I can still hear the sound. This must mean that there is another chest nearby, and regardless of how little I may need it, I cannot leave it undiscovered. So I will tear the house apart, wall by wall, floor by floor, until the storm engulfs me or I am shotgunned in the back while attempting to construct a ladder in the shattered remains of a bathroom in order to access a promising hole in the ceiling.

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UPDATE 4PM GMT: Netflix has also confirmed a number of the other actors joining The Witcher cast, including the actress who'll play iconic sorceress Triss Merigold. Taking the role is Anna Shaffer, according to the Hollywood Reporter, who you may remember as Romilda Vane from Harry Potter - the girl who gave Harry a love potion. Shaffer also played Ruby Button in British soap opera Hollyoaks.

Other actors joining the cast include: Eamon Farren (The ABC Murders, Twin Peaks) as Cahir, Joey Batey (Knightfall, Strike) as Jaskier, Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards, Sherlock) as Stregobor, Royce Pierreson (Wanderlust, Judy) as Istredd, Maciej Musiał (1983) as Sir Lazlo, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte (Jamillah & Aladdin, Dickensian).

ORIGINAL STORY 3PM GMT: Netflix has given the world its first look at Superman actor Henry Cavill made up for his new role as mutant monster hunter Geralt, in the upcoming The Witcher television series.

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UPDATE 31/10/2018: Since the events of earlier today, in which the Undertale Twitter account released an entirely new game onto the internet with no warning, multiple players have reported issues when uninstalling the game.

According to those who have (somehow) already tried to uninstall the files for Deltarune, the uninstaller deleted anything else that was tucked in the same folder as the game files. So if you kept the game's uninstaller contained in a separate game folder (the recommended installation process), you should be fine: but if you popped it elsewhere, you might lose that entire folder - along with all the files it contained. Yikes.

Undertale creator Toby Fox has since tweeted about the situation, explaining the uninstaller "deletes the entire directory" where it is placed. To combat this, he suggests entirely avoiding the game's uninstaller.

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The pizzas are in the oven. The beers are fresh out the fridge. Some of us have even remembered to charge our phones. It's time for a Jackbox party - and this time it's all about the latest instalment in the series, Party Pack 5.

For those out the loop (or who haven't been students in a while), Jackbox party packs are collections of multiplayer mini game collections. You typically get five games per pack, which can be played by up to eight people on their phones (along with the console or PC running the game's main display). They're pretty fabulous for evening's entertainment - typically because they allow for personalised jokes and crude yet creative humour. Think Cards Against Humanity, but with your name (and your secrets) laid bare for the amusement of all. It can get pretty messy.

As a lazy party host who's always on the lookout for easy entertainment, I've somehow become a veteran Jackbox player. With the latest instalment, I was looking for something that would strike a fine balance between the familiarity of past titles, and something new and quirky.

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A milestone 25th expansion pack has been announced for 19-year-old online game EverQuest. It's called The Burning Lands and will be released 11th December 2018.

What's left for a 25th expansion to add? A luck statistic, luckily, as well as six new expansion zones themed around the planes of air, smoke and fire. You can see these in an archived Burning Lands livestream below.

EverQuest today is obviously a different place to when it launched in 1999, when it was queen bee - the MMO all other MMOs aspired to be. Today the herd has moved on, to WOW and beyond, but the committed veterans remain. And they remain to raid, it seems. EQ still goes in for big-numbers raids, you see - raids with 40 people or more. WOW scaled back to 25 players years ago in an effort to make raiding less hardcore (it takes a lot of organisation getting 40 people in one place at one time).

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