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Rockstar Games has announced all the new content, deals, and special events happening in GTA V‘s multiplayer mode, Grand Theft Auto Online, this week. The centrepiece of the new content is the Buckingham Pyro airplane. It’s equipped with twin machine guns, and you can upgrade it extensively with things like liveries, armour, and missiles.

In terms of deals, the Fort Zancudo Hangar 3499 property is 25 percent off, as is the Thomson Scrapyard Bunker. Additionally, Bunker renovation options are 25 percent off. All of these offers are good through October 16.

A handful of vehicles are also 25 percent off, including Ultralight, Rocket Voltic, Lampadati Tropos Rallye, and the armoured Kuruma. Additionally, upgrades from Benny’s are 25 percent off.

This week’s GTA Online premium race and time trial schedule has also been announced. This week’s premium race is the stunt race Raton, and it’s locked to Super. The time trial event this week is Raton Canyon. As always, the top three finishers in premium races get GTA$, while everyone receives triple RP no matter how they finished. For the time trial, beating the par time will reward you with GTA$ and RP.

Go to the Rockstar Newswire to see a full rundown of what’s new in GTA Online this week.

Rockstar has also announced a big new update for GTA Online coming this fall that will introduce Transform races, which changes your vehicle’s class depending on what terrain a particular takes the form of. You can read more about the fall update here.

Nintendo has released a new live-action trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, though its more of a music video for the game’s theme, titled “Jump Up, Super Star!” The video, which you can watch above, features the portly plumber running through the streets of New Donk City, singing, dancing, and making mischief with its denizens.

A few observations: As has been pointed out before, Mario is really short; he exists in a world where people play Mario games; he can apparently commit acts of vandalism with impunity; and finally, that song is very, very catchy. Thankfully, Nintendo has made the song available to download for free on the Super Mario Odyssey website.

Nintendo notes that the download will only be around until January 2018, and “it is not possible to download directly to an iOS device.” You’ll need to download the track to a computer and then transfer it over, if you want to hear it on the go.

Super Mario Odyssey’s release date has been confirmed as October 27. Nintendo has also announced a Super Mario Odyssey Switch bundle that comes with a system, a copy of the game, red Joy-Cons, and a Switch carrying case with special markings on it.

For more about how it’s shaping up, check out most recent impressions of the game. A new trailer recently broadcast during a Nintendo Direct showcased Mario shirtless (which you’ll see in the slides ahead)–and people had a lot to say about that.

Legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter has revealed that the new Halloween reboot will ignore all the sequels.

In an interview with Stereogum (via Entertainment Weekly) Carpenter has explained why Jamie Lee Curtis’s character Laurie Strode will appear in the film after being killed by Michael Myers in Halloween: Resurrection.

Carpenter explains that the reboot is “almost an alternative reality” in that “

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The Star Trek Podcast: From spore drives to Klingons snacking on Starfleet Captains, this week’s episode is unlike anything we’ve seen in Trek before.

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

The Flash is coming off its most uneven season to date. Even if Season 3 did pick up considerably towards the end, the show still has a lot to prove as Season 4 gets underway. “The Flash Reborn” had two core tasks set before it. First, it needed to make good on the dramatic Season 3 cliffhanger and take advantage of a Barry Allen-less status quo. Second, it needed to make good on the promise that Season 4 will be a more lighthearted return to form following the relative darkness of Season 3. Unfortunately, this episode only succeeded in one of those tasks.

For the second year in a row, the series has failed to capitalize on what should have been a huge, status quo-shattering twist. The Season 2 finale set the stage for a full-blown adaptation of the Flashpoint comic book storyline, only for Season 3 to quickly and (mostly) painlessly restore the old timeline after one episode. Season 3 ended with Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen walking off into the Speed Force and leaving Keiynan Lonsdale’s Wally West and the rest of team Flash to carry on in his absence. But once again, rather than really dig into that dramatic upheaval, the show focused more on putting the pieces back in place and restoring a more familiar status quo.

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