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Blumhouse, the horror production company behind such big cinematic hits as Get Out, M3GAN and the Insidious films, has extended its creepy tentacles to scary shows and movies to scary video games. Fear the Spotlight is Blumhouse Games first entry into gaming with the help of the indie developer Cozy Game Pals. The horror game will get a full release on October 22 and theres a demo currently available for PCs on Steam. Fear the Spotlight is a third-person horror adventure game that takes place in a high school after hours. Two curious teens Vivian and Amy sneak into Sunnyside High, a school with a dark, mysterious history, in the dead of night to perform a séance. A deadly creature with a bright, glowing gaze rises and starts roaming the halls of the school. The spotlight monster separates the girls and its up to Vivian to unravel the schools mystery, find Amy and make it through the darkness alive. The game uses PS1 style, polygonal graphics, which just adds to the games creepy aesthetic like some of those early horror classics including Nightmare Creatures and the first Silent Hill game. Theres just something about a square-ish head that sends a shiver down my spine. Its one of many reasons Im not looking forward to the new Minecraft movie.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/blumhouse-games-fear-the-spotlight-set-for-release-on-october-22-194907647.html?src=rss
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No Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas is complete without viewing one of the holiday adjacent Peanuts specials. These days, Apple TV owns the television rights to Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Christmas but it appears that Apple TV wants everyone to have a chance to enjoy these Peanuts specials this year. Apple announced that its making all three Peanuts specials available to everyone regardless of whether or not they have an Apple TV subscription. Apple TV will make each of the Peanuts holiday specials available on two days each month before Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown will be free to stream on October 19 and 20. The Peanuts Halloween special features Linus waiting up for the return of the Great Pumpkin while Charlie Brown only gets rocks while trick or treating. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving will be available to stream on November 23 and 24. This Thanksgiving special features Peppermint Patty inviting the whole gang to a Thanksgiving feast while Snoopy puts together his own Thanksgiving meal. A Charlie Brown Christmas will stream for free on December 14 and 15. Its perhaps the most famous Peanuts special with too many iconic moments to count from Snoopys prize winning holiday display to that sad little tree that the gang turn into a mighty Christmas tree just by waving their arms around it. It also features one of the greatest musical scores ever written for television by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/apple-tv-will-make-three-classic-peanuts-specials-free-to-stream-190041263.html?src=rss
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Google and Roblox have teamed up to create a game that teaches kids how to spot internet scams and to increase caution regarding the sharing of personal information online. The suite of experiences is called, and I quote, Be Internet Awesome World. Did Melania Trump name this thing? This gameplay experience exists within Roblox, which Google says helps it reach kids where theyre already spending time to teach them the basics of online safety. It brings kids to the magical world of the Internauts which is home to a number of minigames that address various aspects of internet safety. Some of the games focus on phishing attempts, while others emphasize practicing kindness online. Good luck with that last one. In any event, Be Internet Awesome World is available right now within Roblox, which leads us to the elephant in the room. Roblox may be a great place to reach kids, with nearly 80 million daily active users and many of them children. Its also been accused of being an unsafe space for the younger gamers among us. Turkey banned the app entirely on the grounds that it allows for the exploitation of children. Sony didnt even want to bring the game to PlayStation consoles for similar reasons, before finally relenting last year. There have also been accusations of kids being financially exploited on the platform, according to reporting by The Guardian. Popular creations can make the designers a lot of money, and the userbase is mostly children under 16. This has led many to accuse the apps developers of gaining notoriety through an influx of child labor. The Roblox tagline, after all, used to be Make anything. Reach millions. Earn serious cash. Roblox takes around 30 percent of all money made via the platform, so it has a vested interest in the creative contributions of children. Studio head Stefano Corazza once told Eurogamer that the ability for teenagers to make money on the platform represented the biggest gift and that these kids didnt feel like they were exploited. You can say, Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor, right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income, Corazza continued. All this is to say that perhaps Roblox should get its own house in order before trying to teach kids about how to avoid scams online. Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki has started to address these concerns, heading to Washington DC earlier this year to discuss child safety with lawmakers.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/google-and-roblox-teamed-up-on-a-weird-game-to-teach-kids-about-internet-safety-190007350.html?src=rss
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