Do you like dressing up for Halloween? I sure do! In fact, just a few years ago I went as Princess Peach. I was SO beautiful. (You can see the sexy evidence above. And that's my wife playing Rock Band in the background. She was dressed as Mr Andy Dixon.)

Anyway, if you're like me, half the fun of dressing up is showing off your costumes, and the other half is winning a free game for doing so! (The third half is scaring children. The fourth half is stealing their candy as they run away.) Well it just so happens that your beloved Robot Overlord found an extra copy of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel hidden in his robo-shoe, and he's decided to hand it out at random to someone who posts a picture of themselves in their costume in the comments below!

Limit one entry per person, and you have until this Friday at 11:59pm Pacific to show us your stuff. All costumes are valid (meaning not just videogame-related ones), so don't feel discouraged even if you're going as Elsa from Frozen like every other f*cking little girl in the world this year. Winner will be chosen at random, but you must hold up a sign that says "DESTRUCTOID" in the picture so we know it's really you. International readers are welcome to enter, though we may ask you to pay for shipping if you win.

Double points if you dress up as Claptrap using only items you found around your house.

Good luck, and have fun!

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Liam Lambert, GIZORAMA - "Sign Motion possesses a seriously unique visual style and core gimmick, if you will. You are the young boy from the school crossing sign, and after having escaped said sign and the guardianship of Sign Mummy/Daddy, you find yourself running, jumping and swinging through a 2-D world constructed entirely out of various signs. Although this sounds like an interesting concept, the game itself soon squanders its own potential and diverts into a dull bog of shoddy physics, unresponsive controls and unjustifiable heaps of trial and error."



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I've been thinking about the apocalypse a lot lately. It's partly because of the intense drought in California. But mostly, it's been because of Fallout fans.

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Sunset Overdrive, Lords of the Fallen and more in this week's Five Games.



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Leading up to Halloween, I've been wanting to write about horror games because that's what you do in October, right? I still might; I'm playing the oft-recommended Fatal Frame II for the first time now and am planning to revisit Condemned. But before I get to those, I have been thinking about games that aren't traditionally deemed scary that managed to get to me anyway.

My mind jumps back to Shiny Entertainment's classic action-platformer Earthworm Jim 2. What a surreal game. It went places you wouldn't expect even if you had played its predecessor or were otherwise familiar with characters like Professor Monkey-for-a-Head and Queen Slug-for-a-Butt.

This was a game willing to dress you up like a blind cave salamander and force you to flap around villi-filled intestines to the tune of "Moonlight Sonata" for a single level. And god forbid you bounce off one of those mischievous pinball bumpers (whose intestines are these?) -- the ensuing scream was horrific. But The Villi People isn't the level that prompted this article.

That distinction belongs to Puppy Love, a stage whose title alone strikes fear into my heart.

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Feed Your Console The ever popular first person 4 player cooperative treasure hunting hit Borderlands is back for another round. In the form of a prequel to the sequel hence the Pre-Sequel title. The game begins shortly after the events of Borderlands 2 where Lilith, Brick and Mordecai are interrogating Athena(See Borderlands 2 DLC The Secret Armory of General Knoxx) who recounts how she met Jack and her back story.



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If, in the last four years, you havent been privy to the fast-paced platforming insanity that is Super Meat Boy, nows a great time to pick up the game on the cheap.



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GeekParty's Tim Evans offers 5 games to play this Halloween if you're looking to be charmed, terrified, and possibly even offended!



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Fangamer has come a long way from its beginnings at Starmen.net. What started as a Mother/EarthBound-focused fandom now sells all sorts of videogame-related merchandise. With this current project, titled You Are Now EarthBound (after an old fansite), the team is returning to its roots. Not only is it focusing on the game that catalyzed the company's genesis, it is looking like one of the biggest projects Fangamer has taken on.

It is set to include a handbook similar to the one produced for Mother 3 , a documentary on the fandom for the series, an album of EarthBound music arranged by the Bad Dudes, and a zine composed of EarthBound-inspired art and writing.

Getting all of the rewards digitally takes a pledge of $32, with physical releases starting at twice that much. Work is well underway on the project, but Fangamer is seeking $100,000 on Kickstarter to help get it all finished. As of this writing, it is only a fraction of the way to that goal at about $9,000.

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MiddleEasy's Dave Walsh takes a look at Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth.



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GameGrin's Shinetime writes: "Hatred is a game you might not have heard of; in fact I only saw the trailer this morning, but it struck me, not for its gameplay and not for its graphics but for its subject matter. Hatred is a game where the main protagonist is a spree shooter, the biggest trend in America. Violence isnt new to the industry and neither is senseless violence, but so far the game has been met with a mixed reception. GTA is practically gaming royalty with its strong lineage, however it is still the biggest target when it comes to people against violence in games. These arguments spawn from the fact it is possible to do something in the game: possible not required. When a player decides to kill a large group of civilians it is of their own accord and not the main focus of the game, its merely a facet."



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