Hulu’s Into the Dark: Exclusive Trailer Debut for ‘The Body’

Just in time for the Halloween season, Hulu is partnering with Blumhouse Television to bring an all-new horror anthology series to life. Over the next year, Into the Dark will debut “12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday,” featuring Blumhouse’s “signature genre/thriller spin on the story,” according to Hulu.

The series’ first outing, titled “The Body,” is set to premiere on Friday, October 5. Per Hulu, The Body centers on “a sophisticated hitman with a cynical view on modern society who finds his work made more difficult when he has to transport a body on Halloween night, but everyone is enamored by what they think is his killer costume.”

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Here’s Red Dead Redemption 2 in First-Person

Update: Rockstar Games has released the second official gameplay trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, and it showcases the game’s first-person mode.

Check out the trailer below to see the mode in action.

Original story follows.

Rockstar has revealed that Red Dead Redemption 2 will follow in GTA V’s footsteps by allowing you to play the entire game from a first-person perspective.

Shown off in our hands-on with the game, first-person mode can be turned on and off at any time (on the PS4, this is done by clicking the trackpad to cycle through the camera modes until you get to first-person), and applies to the entire game, barring cutscenes. The feature will be available at launch.

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Why Do We Love the Character Venom?

With director Ruben Fleischer and star Tom Hardy’s much-anticipated Venom movie about to hit theaters, some of us are on pins and needles in anticipation. This character is important to fans. But why exactly do we love him so much?

Venom, to offer a brief primer for the uninitiated, is a Spider-Man villain invented in 1988 that serves, essentially, as Spider-Man’s evil twin. Venom is the alter-ego of Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter and rival of Peter Parker who had fused with an alien symbiote (visualized as a blob of living, shape-shifting intelligent tar that once served as Spider-Man’s costume) that wrapped around his body and implanted a dark voice in his head telling him to commit acts of violence and, occasionally, cannibalism. Venom, looking like a nightmare version of Spider-Man – complete with a gaping be-fanged mouth and giant lolling tongue – started his career terrorizing the populace, but eventually became a dark antihero – a lethal protector – starring in his own comics and, as of this month, his own movie.

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Titans to Premiere on Netflix Internationally

Though DC Universe will debut its first original series, Titans, in the United States, Netflix has acquired the international streaming rights for fans overseas who don’t have access to DC’s digital subscription service.

As reported by Variety, Netflix will be home to Titans everywhere but the United States and China, the later of which doesn’t have official access to Netflix at all. Though Titans is scheduled to hit the DC Universe streaming service on October 12, the international premiere date for Titans on Netflix has yet to be announced.

Though DC Universe launched in the US on September 15, and has been announced for a Canadian release in the future, it appears Canada will be one of the many countries that will enjoy Titans on Netflix, at least for now.

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Out This Week: Mega Man 11, Super Mario Party, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.

Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.

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Some of the Best Video Game Art Books are On Sale Right Now

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The art behind the games we love is a direct conduit into the creative process. Renderings and early mock-ups show us what developers had in mind when they first started building the games we play. There’s also promotional art, art for instruction booklets, and more. These art books are a joy to behold (I may already own several of these…), and if you appreciate illustration, want to get a peek into the creative process behind your favorite games, or you just like to look at the pretty pictures, I highly recommend you begin amassing a collection of video game art books.

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