MangaPlaza welcomes Viz Media, and What To Expect!

VIZ Media expands its digital manga catalogue on MangaPlaza, with titles including Frieren and Spy x Family, plus 10% point rewards until November 12.

MangaPlaza logoReaders of VIZ Media‘s manga now have more options on how to read while out and about. This company is expanding the digital availability of its manga catalogue through MangaPlaza. This service offers niche and rare English localizations of some works and directly supports Japanese creators.

To celebrate, the online reading platform is running a special points-back promotional campaign until November 12!

According to their press release, users can earn 10% in point rewards when unlocking content for VIZ Media titles, capped at 3,000 points. The campaign runs from October 29, 2026, at 7:00 PM through November 12, 2026, at 6:59 AM Pacific Time.

Below are just a few VIZ Media titles that are now available, with more to be added in the future.

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Who’s The Wolf in Dead Howling? Sure, Survival is Important, But ….

The zombies won’t be answering that in this film, which is more about pack building and survival during a zombie apocalypse that could use a faster pulse. Dead Howling is a work that is different.

Dead Howling DVD CoverKaleidoscope Home Entertainment
UK Premiere: Oct 31, 2026
Tubi FrightFest Halloween
Home Video & VOD Release: Nov 2, 2026

Between pulp and a serious tale, just where John V. Soto’s Dead Howling fits seems uncertain. I feel it leans more towards family drama rather than be a full on challenge between species. That’s because there can only be one werewolf against a massive horde of zombies! Also, when the set design suggests an abandoned present-day world with lots of rust, just where it fits when marketing describes a post-apocalyptic setting is certainly subject to interpretation!

After a zombie virus devastates the world, Carter (Joel Jackson) lives alone, spending his nights hunting the living dead for sport with the help of a tremendous power. He finds a new purpose after saving two siblings, Megan (Téa Heathcote-Marks) and Billy (Riley Stiles), who are seeking a rumoured safe zone. Unsurprisingly, this loner agrees to protect them on their search for sanctuary. Along the way, they must dodge encounters with the walking dead, random or otherwise, meet other survivors and hopefully make it out alive. This Australian-made film evokes the frontier in a few scenes. We just need more desert than suburban sprawl.

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Ready or Not, Manganika Studio’s Cosmic Séance Demo Is Ready To Drive Player’s “Insane!”

Cosmic Séance looks ready to scratch that Lovecraftian detective itch, with colourful monsters, cryptic visions, and answers that could cost you your sanity.

Cosmic Séance PosterDemo available on Steam

Manganika Studio’s trailer for Cosmic Séance looks awesome, and the concept is sound. At its core, this visually rich adventure is about choices. You have to carefully select your questions, and the beast’s answer may well test your sanity! Getting a response is only the beginning. Making sense of it is where the challenge lies.

This Victorian-era narrative investigation game trades twitch reflexes for psychological mystery.  Some players will like this idea, and for others, accept the concept for it it is and admire the art design. When some illustrations remind me of the graphic novel Young Lovecraft, the concepts are certainly familiar. Even the design of the entities may challenge fans of H.P. Lovecraft’s works to correctly identify!

For instance, that three-eyed head immediately made me think of Hastur, even though the game never identifies the first entity as such.

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Do the Necronomicon! Evil Dead Burn Asks Where Is It Now?

The Deadites have their own agenda, but I’m more interested in what’s hiding between the Necronomicon’s pages. Evil Dead Burn adds intriguing lore while leaving the franchise’s tangled history open to speculation.

Necronomicon Ex-MortisBack in 1979, Sam Raimi wrote, directed, and produced Within the Woods as a proof of concept that would later become The Evil Dead. And although it wasn’t a huge success at first, I knew this film’s eventual cult status helped cement the legacy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis! The reason isn’t what evoking the magiks can do, but why its continued existence, even in Evil Dead Burn, the latest film in this omniverse, is dangerous! I didn’t need to watch this film right away, but with Halloween nearly here, why not?

Variations of it have been explored across different mediums, and without it, I doubt this franchise could exist. Technically, there are three books in total, and when it can do more than summon demons, everyone should worry.

It can turn back time, offer rituals and recipes that mankind isn’t meant to know. And for those who insist on understanding every page, I’d be afraid. While mentions have been spliced in throughout the various films and unofficial material, this latest offering does something different which I like, and that’s give it a unified history that can cause some people to go mad! The ideas have been planted ever since Rise, and if it ever gets rediscovered, I’ll be running away.

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Check In If You Dare: 13 Terrifying Videogame Haunted Houses for Halloween

There’s more than 13 videogame haunted houses to explore, and what’s presented here is a list worth the time to visit, and lose your mind over….

Chibi gamer with Pac-Man ghosts Videogame Haunted HousesHonestly, I doubt I can get through all the videogame haunted houses that are out there. When considering the classics to what’s new, there’s a lot! And to narrow down what are my top thirteen choices, that’s tough to do! I’d probably lose my sanity if I tried to play them all over a Halloween weekend. By the end, I’d probably look wide-eyed and droopy, with huge shadows underneath my eyes! While I have my favourite video game haunted houses to crawl through, I’ll only offer full entries on five titles I’m looking forward to playing, with the rest noted with a trailer.

From campy ghost hunts and psychological journeys into grief to shifting mansions, tightly scripted nightmares, and even a house that fights back, I think I’ve covered just about every kind of haunted house possible.

Look on, if you dare, because honey, even after one night of ghostbusting, those ghosts will just come back! And before we embark on this spooky little journey, I have just one thing to say: Sorry, Luigi, you’ve been dethroned.

Alone in the Dark (2024)

Genre / Focus: Survival Horror / Exploration + Combat

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The Beast of Mossy Bottom: Four Hilarious Reasons Ewe Will Love Shaun the Sheep

Aardman’s expressive flock delivers plenty of laughs in this kid-friendly Halloween romp. Not everything has to be scary, and Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom nicely gives fans young and old something to guffaw at. And we got news too about the home video release:

Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom DVD
Available to preorder on Amazon USA now

GKIDS & StudioCanal
Available on VOD
Coming to Blu-ray and DVD January 26, 2027.

As a kid-friendly film for the season, Shaun the Sheep The Beast of Mossy Bottom brings a little scare to its quiet hamlet. Shaun has come a long way since his introduction in Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995). That little sheep went on to lead his own TV series in 2007, with the Farmer, Bitzer the dog and the flock turning life into anything but a quiet country retreat. Aardman built this world around visual gags and expressive characters. Nobody needs a proper conversation for us to understand who’s causing trouble.

The leap to features gave that mischief more room to roam. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) took the flock to the big city, while Farmageddon (2019) brought an alien visitor to the countryside. For someone who loves silent films like I do, the appeal is easy to understand. A look, a gesture or a badly timed mishap can carry the joke. That’s nothing to bleat at, pardon the pun.

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