By: Starcount

October: the month that the clocks go back, darkness descends upon us, and we celebrate the night of all things macabre, Halloween. It makes sense that this sense of gloom has infected the gaming world. As the days draw shorter, gamers took to social media to discuss the scarier aspects of the gaming world. The somber mood heralded the arrival of Gotham City’s Dark Knight into the charts, while the zombified Resident Evil rose a place on its position from last month.

10. Batman: Arkham Origins The latest in the Arkham series {link no longer active} following Asylum and City, Batman’s adopted an ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’ attitude for this look into his past – and it’s clearly a popular decision. The Dark Knight continues to be far and away your favourite superhero in the gaming world, Gotham’s finest gaining over 75,000 new fans on Facebook {link no longer active} this week following the release of Arkham Origins this month.

9. WWE 2K14 The WWE {link no longer active} franchise has changed hands in the gaming world, with 2K Sports publishing their first entry in the series. Speculation as to what changes they will make have been fuelling online discussion about the newest game, and YouTube videos showing updated gameplay have seen the WWE franchise gain over 10 million YouTube  views.

8. Pokémon The sixth generation of Pokémon {link no longer active} games is finally upon us, introducing fully-rendered 3D graphics for the first time as well as new species of Pokémon to add to the existing favourites. Almost 100,000 people across the globe were discussing the series on Facebook.

7. Resident Evil With no recent release to get you talking, it appears the changing of the season and the horror-themed celebrations and awakened the web’s interest in Resident Evil {link no longer active}. The gory survival series gained 213,000 Facebook fans as over as an impressive 168,000 people discussed its dark goings-on.

6. Pro Evolution Soccer Pro Evo {link no longer active} may be the second most popular football game overall following last month’s release of its 2014 edition, but it scored a major victory over rival FIFA on Facebook – gaining 240,000 more new fans than EA Sports’ competitor.

5. FIFA The victor once again when it comes to favourite football simulations, the contest is nevertheless as close as ever. FIFA managed to claim a win over its main rival by way of hugely impressive Google+ stats – the game was added to 69,000 circles – as well as 7 million YouTube views as gamers get used to 2014’s new gaming dynamics.

4. Battlefield 4 Trailers for the latest Battlefield {link no longer active} game have been everywhere this month, and it shows – the series’ YouTube channel has been viewed an astonishing 26 million times in this month alone. With Halloween battle about to commence between this and Call of Duty, it will be interesting to see who is left for dead next month.

3. Grand Theft Auto Last month’s most popular game – and the fastest selling of all time – drops two places as the internet at large looks forward to two of the other biggest imminent releases for 2014. But GTA {link no longer active} has remained hugely popular, gaining over 495,000 new fans on Facebook.

2. Call of Duty It’s back. As the series celebrates its 10th anniversary, developers Infinity Ward are set to unleash their sixth  – and the 10th overall – installment in the Call of Duty  {link no longer active} behemoth. With new features – you can play as a dog this time – expect this to be near the top of the charts as the game heads everyone’s Christmas wish lists. COD’s main victory over rival Battlefield this month was on Instagram, where they gained 14,000 new fans.

1. Assassin’s Creed Over 1.3 million new fans on Facebook {link no longer active}, over 3.3 million YouTube views, over 40,000 new Twitter followers – social media has gone Assassin’s Creed crazy ahead of the release of Black Flag. Taking to the high seas is a new feature for the series and it would appear that the world is very excited indeed to test the waters. Perhaps next month we will see a slight lightening in the mood as we move into the festive season. An ability to jump on board with the new generation of consoles will undoubtedly have a role to play in which games get the social media world talking next month as the gaming world turns its attentions to the future.