Halloween festivities are already starting to roll out across the MMOverse and multiplayer titles too. Here are a few to keep an eye on here at the top of the month of October!
Red Dead Online : The MMO version of Red Dead Redemption 2 may be in permanent maintenance mode, but apparently Rockstar will be turning on events (and turning off its Twitter replies ). In fact, there’s even a new hardcore telegram mission launching for the season on October 18th dubbed False Hopes & Prophecy , plus the Halloween Pass returns.
Apex Legends : Respawn’s battle royale shooter has revived Fight or Fright for four weeks. Currently, Shadow Royale mode is live to freak out players; it’ll be followed by a week of gun-running and a week of control modes, then back to Shadow Royale to cap off Halloween itself.
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Fortnite : Epic’s battle royale is merely teasing its Fortnitemares events, launching October 18th. Traditionally, the event includes the Hexsylvania zone, reward cosmetics, and quests for STW players.
Habbo Hotel : Finally, we come to Habbo , which apparently is embracing the longstanding belief that it is a horroshow by inviting you to visit hell on Earth in “Habboween .” So sayeth Sulake: “A portal from Hell has opened up in the Hotel, allowing Fallen Angels to enter the building and cause havoc in a gothic, doomsday-inspired Halloween event in Habbo, with new, limited edition rares, furni, clothing items and bundles to be purchased and created.”
This is just a taste of some of the events we’ve seen so far; we’ll be putting our whole Halloween roundup together toward the end of the month, with plenty more Halloween posts along the way, so stay tuned!
• The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v6.0
• City of Heroes’ Rebirth and Homecoming rogue servers kick off their respective holiday events
• Lost Ark teases December’s Brelshaza Legion Raid, addresses ongoing disconnect issues
• Old School RuneScape begins applying the first batch of Poll 77 changes
• One Shots: Officially up to no good
• The Stream Team: A very merry Mogloween in AQ3D
• The Stream Team: Neverwinter’s Halloween festival of falsehoods is Masquerade of Liars
• Massively OP Podcast Episode 395: The grandma who stole Halloween
• Atlas turns on its Halloween event with fired pumpkin cannonballs
• The Stream Team: Vampires and V Rising for Halloween
• Gloria Victis carves itself out a bloody Halloween update
• Black Desert is canceling its Halloween events and sales following Itaewon tragedy
• The MOP Up: ARK’s ultimate survival edition lands on Switch
• The Stream Team: Savoring the spooky season in City of Heroes Homecoming
• One Shots: Hamming it up for Halloween
• The Stream Team: Wandering Wistmead and other Halloween fun in Lord of the Rings Online
• Wurm Online treats its players to a Halloween skill boost event
• The Secret World Classic won’t have a Halloween event this year thanks to… player feedback?
• Embers Adrift gets into the Halloween spirit while improving its Meadowlands zone
• The Stream Team: The Snitch and the Lich in Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Night Revels
• Massively Overthinking: Do you have a love/hate relationship with specific MMO content?
• Among Us (literally) crash lands in pixel art survival sandbox Tinkertown with a special collab quest
• Lineage II’s various versions hand out Halloween heaps of celebratory candy and consumables
• Albion Online insists we fight a super cute punkinhead for Halloween loot
• Broken Ranks gears up for a 30-hour Halloween event
• Runes of Magic opens a haunted house, hands out gifts, and boosts rewards for Halloween
• Old School RuneScape celebrates Halloween with a new event while putting more gameplay modes in testing
• Black Desert adds a Halloween witch on PC and opens its seasonal servers for console
• Swords of Legends Online kicks off a Halloween-themed hide-and-seek event
• Halloween fun across the MMORPG genre, 2022 edition
• Lost Ark’s Mystics and Mayhem is live with the Aldebaran Harvest Festival limited-time event
• Realm of the Mad God, Spiral Knights, Minecraft Dungeons, Soulworker, Fiesta Online, and Shaiya launch Halloween festivities
• OrbusVR hosts its fourth harvest festival this month, prepares another chaos realm for late November
• Black Desert Mobile’s new patch introduces an improved black market and Halloween events
• The Stream Team: Need more Nights of the Dead in EverQuest II
• City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue server has Halloween goodness on offer until November 1
• Overwatch 2 goes into full Halloween mode with a new co-op mission
• Villagers and Heroes reopens its Haunted Moors seasonal area and adds the Blighted Isles story location
• The Stream Team: A seventh year of Elder Scrolls Online’s Witches Festival
• World of Tanks and World of Warships welcome Halloween with thematic missions and game modes
• SMITE’s Reaping Halloween event and Polynesian folk hero Maui are live in latest update
• Dark Age of Camelot’s recurring Halloween festivities return for another year
• ARK: Survival Evolved is running its Halloween event through November 2
• RuneScape brings back its Halloween event with classic activities and new cosmetic rewards until November 4
• The Stream Team: Ddemon Llamas in Trove’s Shadow’s Eve
• PSO2 New Genesis stuffs Halloween costumes in its lootboxes, prepares to share update details in a video
• V Rising hands out Halloween DLC like candy, preps a free play weekend
• Lost Ark hypes up the arrival of its Mystics and Mayhem update with a new trailer
• One Shots: Let us tell you a fairy tale…
• The Stream Team: An evening with Elvira in AdventureQuest 3D
• Final Fantasy XI brings the Harvest Festival back once more on October 24
• Fallout 76 details next week’s dual in-game celebrations of Halloween and the RPG series’ 25th anniversary
• EVE Online brings Halloween to outer space with Crimson Harvest
• Overwatch 2 brews up a fresh batch of Halloween terror
• Aura Kingdom, Skyforge, and City of Heroes Rebirth celebrate Halloween
• ArcheAge kicks off a broom race and shares some results from its fresh start player survey
• Aion unleashes the Pumpkin King and new Empyrean Lords
• Elder Scrolls Online launches its Halloween event, finishes Stadia account conversion to PC
• Sea of Thieves readies a Halloween community event for October 28 and its next adventure on November 3
• AdventureQuest 3D, Paladins, and MechWarrior Online welcome Halloween events
• Trove brings new and returning Halloween goodies with its Shadow’s Eve event
• Destiny 2 celebrates the Halloween season with mecha suits, masks, and a new haunted sector
• Neverwinter’s Masquerade of Liars event will let players dress up like an owlbear at long last
• Black Desert PC opens the door to an alternate world with Abyss One: The Magnus
• The Stream Team: Halloween hijinks and Variant Dungeon crawling in Final Fantasy XIV
• Lost Ark sets players to raiding in next week’s Mystics and Mayhem update
• Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….
• The Daily Grind: What are you doing with MMO Halloween and harvest events this year?
• The Stream Team: A Guild Wars 2 Mad King’s Clock Tower competition
• World of Warcraft’s Headless Horseman rides again for Hallow’s End
• Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King Halloween festival is live this afternoon
• Destiny 2 dishes on Halloween, the end of destination materials, and weapon tweaks
• Elite Dangerous plans November release window for Update 14 and Halloween-themed giveaways
• The MOP Up: Crossout revs up a major engine upgrade
• The Stream Team: The quest to be a cat in Star Trek Online
• One Shots: Fresh from the portal of death
• The Stream Team: Pirate101 turns 10 for Halloween!
• GTA Online sees Jack O’ Lanterns full of tricks or treats springing up across San Andreas
• Champions Online begins the first week of its Blood Moon Halloween celebration
• EverQuest II resurrects the Nights of the Dead event for the Halloween season
• Star Wars Galaxies’ Legends rogue server adds new instruments and drops for Halloween
• Final Fantasy XIV previews a spooky new location for this year’s All Saints’ Wake
• The Stream Team: ‘Tis the season for undead and liches in Dungeons & Dragons Online
• ArcheAge War gets a brief teaser trailer as ArcheAge kicks off its Hallowtide event
• MultiVersus brings on its Halloween event, adds Gizmo and Stripe to its roster of fighters
• Dauntless’ Dark Harvest event returns along with a new island adventure in latest patch
• EverQuest rolls out Nights of the Dead for Halloween
• Lord of the Rings Online’s Harvestmath has officially arrived for spooky season
• Diablo Immortal adds a pair of limited-time events for Halloween
• Blade & Soul plays the Symphony of Destruction today – here are the patch notes
• Final Fantasy XIV brings back the joy of All Saints’ Wake once more on October 19
• New World opens up two more servers, updates its heat map, and preps a Halloween event
• Closers’ new patch revamps crafting, costume conversion, and guides, and opens up the Spooky School
• Star Stable brings back its four week-long Halloween festival tomorrow
• Aion and RIFT mark the spooky season with Halloween sales and quests
• Guild Wars 2 preps Shadow of the Mad King for next week
• Lord of the Rings Online outlines the Harvestmath Festival starting October 12
• Closers is kicking off an autumn jumping event that fast-tracks characters to max level
• The MOP Up: Embers Adrift’s soundtrack swells prior to launch
• Splatoon players will settle an age-old Pokemon question in November’s Splatfest
• Diablo II Resurrected adds Terror Zones, new charms, and its second ladder season
• Star Trek Online’s Emperor’s Will event extended to October 14 after reward issues spring up
• DC Universe Online begins the Witching Hour with new rewards and a vampire bat race
• Dungeons and Dragons Online exhumes its Halloween event for another showing
• Cinderstone Online sells closed beta access, plans cadence, and teases Halloween
• Warframe discusses Halloween, Frames, cross-play, and charity initiative
• PlanetSide 2 brings back its Halloween-themed Nanite of the Living Dead event
• Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot observe birthdays, Halloween, and player memorials
• Midnight Ghost Hunt invites players to a creepy new carnival in the multiplayer spook-em-up
• Blade & Soul adds a new dungeon, Halloween, and the Musician class on October 12
• Lost Ark’s Arktoberfest applies beer directly to your head
• Swords of Legends Online’s latest event pits players against a spooky Ghost Bride