Halloween isn’t just about sweets and costumes, for game developers around the world it’s about outdoing each other with their various in-game Halloween celebrations. These cosmetic treats are most commonly found in MMO games, whose settings generally allow more for these kinds of holiday shenanigans.
Check out the list below to see what your favourite games are doing for Halloween:
World of Warcraft
WoW bring back Hallow’s End, a place allowing you to “corral” orphans and earn currency in the form of candy, which you can use to purchase various Halloween themed items. If that’s a little mustachioed man in an unmarked van for you, the more vandalous bunch out there can opt instead to set fire to your opposing faction’s Wickerman, and pelt them with stinkbombs.
Rift
Rift is forcing nerds all over the world to put pants on (or not, whatever) and enter into a real-life costume competition. Winners will be selected for three categories, terrifying, beautiful and bizzare, and will win in-game items as a reward, including an owl apparently. Let’s hope the pantless entries are trying out for the beautiful category.
Lord of the Rings Online
Lord of the Rings have gone full in-character with this one, including Mad Bilbo’s Haunted Burrow terrifying the locals in the midst of Harvestmath. Player rewards include an Autumnfest steed to add to yar stables. Perhaps more exciting however are the large number of events hosted by players of the games themselves, who have each other to compete with for most kickass Lord of the Rings Halloween party.
Age of Conan
Conan adds the “Nights of the Lost Souls”, which brings two solo quests and one team one, which tasks you with the duty of hunting down the socially-impaired Lost Souls.
Champions Online
Another game taking the real-life route (perhaps too lazy to code the alternative), this time in the form of a pumpkin-carving contest. Winner gets 1000 promotional points and the best porch decoration on the block, while 2nd and 3rd get 500 points each, and a presumably slightly less sweet porch.
DC Universe Online
All the heroes in the DC universe have been granted access to the Scarecrow’s “dark lair”. To thank him for his hospitality, you get to repeatedly punch him in the face to earn tokens which can be exchanged for various Halloween-themed items.
City of Heroes
City of Heroes went all out with their Halloween special, including a new co-op event called Dr. Kane’s House of Horrors and a two-part monster invasion event, where you can face your choice of apocalypse – “zombie” or “deadly”. Finally, you’ll also get to do a spot of trick-or-treating, City of Heroes style.
World of Tanks
Another real-life event, this time gamers will have to send images of themselves playing the game while in full Halloween costume, with the winner getting a year-long premium account. No mention of pants are made, so we can assume they’re optional.
Thanks PC Gamer.
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