Pre-Ghosts mania, your letters, and Halloween combine for a very talky show, including Extinction, COD toys, pink Batgirl, Angry Birds Star Wars, double XP, Kat’s non-horror-movie recommendation for Halloween, the Skylanders Wii U bundle, defiling works of art, the Extra Life charity event, backward compatibility dongles that don’t exist, COD Strike Team for Android, the responsibility of consumers, COD clan head counts, and Hugh’s verdict on the new Batman game.

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Host: Dan “OneOfSwords” Amrich, Activision Community Manager, author, musician, puzzle nerd, and fire juggler

Co-host: “The Lovely and Talented” Katrin Auch, photographer, graphic designer, bassist, Mechromancer, and inventor of Headshotmas

Absent Co-host: Hugh “DJ Darkhugh” Sterbakov, screenwriter, author, comic creator, Emmy-nominated writer/toy wrangler for Robot Chicken, and Governor of Somewhere

Soundtrack: Yameen - available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and all online music stores

Relevant show links:

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• Last-minute COD Ghosts FAQ
  
• COD: Ghosts — Extinction
  
• Angry Birds Star Wars on consoles
  
• Skylanders SWAP Force Wii U bundle
  
• Call of Duty: Strike Team on Android
  
• Activision’s Extra Life teams
  
• Call of Duty Mega Bloks FAQ
  
• Bucolic
  
• Halloween movie suggestions: The Cabin in the Woods, Heavenly Creatures, Trick ‘r Treat (and its phenomenon)
  
• The Typing/House of the Dead Overkill on Steam
  
• Wars on Kinkade
  
• Kat’s photography DeviantArt page and Facebook page
  
• Kat and Hugh and Dan and Yameen on Twitter
  
• Kat’s DeviantArt page and Facebook page
  
• Dan’s book: Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living
  
• Hugh’s book: City Under the Moon
  
• Enter your own question for Hugh Don’t Know Jack (or Stick It To The Dan)
  
• Write to the show’s Megamailbag