As you may be aware if you follow me on Bluesky, I’ve spent the first half of 2026 in the IGN guide mines, and the newsletter’s suffered as a result. So far this year, I’ve co-written or written the guide wikis for Resident Evil Requiem, Slay
Well, that didn’t work out like I expected. The plan was to take this column weekly again, but then I got on a plane during a national flu spike. I’m fine now, but it was hard to get my act together for a while there. It didn’t
October has traditionally been my favorite time of year, as it's when I ascend to my full power as a horror sicko. My plan had been to devote all my columns in October 2025 to horror and horror-adjacent gaming, which is why I picked up Deadly Days:
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