When was the last time you felt scared? Not just my-girl's-gonna-let-me-have-it scared, I'm talking soil-yourself-shamelessly scared. True enough, there might not be a video game out there that'll make you literally crap your pants, and it's far too impractical (and stupid) to find Leatherface to force your dinner down the backdoor. That said, let's just take a look at the things that come close.

To celebrate the Halloween spirit, Valve has released a new patch for Team Fortress 2. The update adds a variety of Halloween related features that includes new hats, five new update-specific achievements, exploding pumpkins, ghosts, new community King-of-the-Hill map, a Halloween edition Harvest event, bug fixes and a few other holiday features.

2K Games has finally set your date with Big Daddy, but just like a real date juggler, the Big Daddies of BioShock 2 won't be ringing doorbells on the same night. The announcement was made during the publisher's conference call to discuss second quarter financial results, and it was Take Two CEO Ben Feder who made the confirmation. Hit the full article for the dates.

You know it's a great survival-horror game if it got itself banned in three countries. It seems Electronic Arts' Dead Space packs a bit too much gory punch as it's been banned in Germany, Japan, and China. Well now I really want to get my hands on the game already.

Street dates usually are pushed back, not moved up. But EA seems to be raring to go with their multiplatform third-person action adventure Dead Space(PC,PS3 and Xbox 360) that they've decided to ship the game earlier than originally expected -- again.

Electronic Arts has announced that Dead Space will be trick-or-treating around retail earlier than what most people assumed. Time to recalibrate your pumpkin clock and read the full article for more info.

Outer Space. Aliens. A creepy title. Dead Space is a dead ringer for a movie, which is why Electronic Arts is producing one for the upcoming game. Details in the full article.

Via press wire, Electronic Arts has finally dated its upcoming survival horror video game Dead Space (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC). If you haven't heard of this game just imagine movies such as Event Horizon, Alien, and The Thing. Now place yourself in the leading character's shoes and you're there. In case you want to find out when this game will be hitting retail stores, head on over to the full article.

Here's the video media for day 2 and day 3 of the Happy Halloween surprise for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, 360, PC), an event that leads up to the last seven days before the game's release.

The first video is a look at the game's ability to change the lighting and post FX on the fly. You'll even see part of a level where the sun sets and rises as you play through it. The second video shows a sort of slideshow on the making of the Overgrown level of CoD 4.

Check out the full article for the videos.

With Activision's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare release date set in less than a week's time, Infinity Ward is now offering gamers a little Halloween surprise to herald the final week before the game goes live.

We're not going to give out any details about the video below since anything we say will just probably spoil it. Suffice it to say that any aspiring CoD 4 war heroes should take care when trying to do recon duty alone on any burning farmlands they come across in the game.

The video itself is a countdown to the last seven days before CoD4's November 5 release on the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 (this includes the limited edition CoD 4 release on the same day). In retrospect, it's nice to know that coders of a supposedly serious game can take the time to kick back and poke fun at themselves.

Seeing that the video is the first of seven videos in a series, we'll be keeping our eye out for the rest of the videos over at the Infinity Ward website.

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