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Time for a nice chat, folks. Gary and Jeremy discuss the new (as of recording) X-Men Phoenix trailer, talk about their ideal X-Men video games, and then answer your comments and questions.

Humming, all the way to Reno. You're gonna be a star... spawn.

Watch out! Behind you! You'll hear that a lot in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, a game from Ninja Theory that goes all in on the gimmick of using 3D sound to approximate audio hallucinations. We talk through this remarkable "AAA indie game", which has a young woman venturing into the Norse underworld to rescue the soul of the one she loves. Unfortunately, not everthing is fantastic here, since there's a bunch of nonsense filler in the game.

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The episode of the podcast of the Malleus Monstorum of the entry of the Guardians of the Crystalizers of Dreams.

The tradition of Halloween readings continues this year with Kole's reading of The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

It's an early work of feminist literature, and an early psychological horror story. Like Frankenstein, its horror results from the depiction of extreme medical malpractice. Gilman wrote the story to protest the way women's psychological and emotional health were being treated by a chauvinist, male-dominated medical profession.

The narrator and protagonist of the story is a woman suffering from an unnamed mental illness, and her doctor husband insists that the best treatment is rest therapy. She remains confined in a room covered with hideous yellow wallpaper, and over the course of weeks, she slowly unravels.

I fell in love with this story when I first read it in college, and I'm excited to share it with anyone who hasn't read it yet.

The music used in this presentation is from the soundtrack to Rule of Rose, a 2006 survival horror game.