{"id":253962,"date":"2024-08-13T19:36:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/halloweens-michael-myers-and-ash-vs-evil-deads-ash-williams-are-getting-their-own-throwback-games\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:12:28","slug":"halloweens-michael-myers-and-ash-vs-evil-deads-ash-williams-are-getting-their-own-throwback-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/halloweens-michael-myers-and-ash-vs-evil-deads-ash-williams-are-getting-their-own-throwback-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween\u2019s Michael Myers and Ash vs. Evil Dead\u2019s Ash Williams are getting their own throwback games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michael Myers may be dead and Ash Williams may be flung far into the future, but they aren\u2019t done slashing up the screen here and now. Boss Level Games announced the upcoming release of two new retro style games under its <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/retrorealmsgame.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:RetroRealms;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><\/a> banner based on the classic slasher flick <em>Halloween <\/em>and the Starz horror comedy series <em>Ash vs. Evil Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The retro <em>Halloween <\/em>and <em>Ash vs. Evil Dead<\/em> titles will be released on October 18 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PCs via Steam.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Halloween <\/em>game puts players in control of the murder machine Michael Myers during the events of the original John Carpenter film as he hacks and slashes his way through Haddonfield, Illinois with his iconic machete. The <em>Ash vs. Evil Dead<\/em> game pits players as the horror movie and TV series hero with his arm-mounted chainsaw and his beloved boomstick against an onslaught of Deadites unleashed by the Necronomicon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"ee15e161-43c1-577b-87f3-f6f7ff1106fa\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_S-Dt-0_lbY?si=OPgo6Y_reY4b7tOq\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"RetroRealms Announcement Trailer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_S-Dt-0_lbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The games will be sold separately, or together as part of a special \u201cDouble Feature\u201d bundle. There\u2019s also a special \u201cCollectors\u2019 Edition\u201d that includes a physical copy of the game for your chosen console, two extra playable characters \u2014 including Laurie Strode for <em>Halloween <\/em>and Kelly Maxwell for <em>Ash vs. Evil Dead<\/em> \u2014 and a bunch of other <em>Halloween <\/em>goodies like a 12-inch plush Michael Myers doll, a digital copy of the <em>Halloween <\/em>game\u2019s soundtrack, a pack of <em>Halloween <\/em>trading cards and more. The games connect to each other when both are installed through crossover access in which characters can be brought to either game and \u201can ever-expanding universe of popular characters that unlocks additional gameplay,\u201d according to Boss Team Games.<\/p>\n<p>Boss Team Games is one of the studios behind the popular asymmetric survival horror multiplayer slasher <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/evil-dead-the-game-gameplay-trailer-201208908.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Evil Dead: The Game;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em><\/em><\/a>. The studio\u2019s press release also notes that these two games will be \u201cthe first two releases in a new series of games for console and PC\u201d implying that more throwback game projects are in the works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/halloweens-michael-myers-and-ash-vs-evil-deads-ash-williams-are-getting-their-own-throwback-games-193000903.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Michael Myers may be dead and Ash Williams may be flung far into the future, but they aren\u2019t done slashing up the screen here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}