This week, Scott Thorne looks at the controversy over charging for table space in game stores.

This week’s home entertainment offerings include the lightly likable cartoon Hotel Transylvania 3 , the action-packed Skyscraper , a highly realistic look at the difficulties of Eighth Grade , the innovative spy thriller Killing Eve , and Gus Van Sant’s powerful biography of cartoonist John Callahan, Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot.

Sony’s Venom set a new October box office record with an $80 million debut, and, with help from A Star Is Born’s impressive $42.6 million opening, helped Hollywood set a new total weekend box office record for the month of October with totals for the top 12 films soaring 70% over the same frame last year when Bladerunner 2049 bowed with $32.8 million.

Creative Games Studio and IDW Games have teamed up to produce The Towers of Arkhanos.

Concept art from Star Wars that hasn’t been displayed in public in 35 years will see the light of day during an October auction.

New Canadian game publisher Maple Games will release Dragon Boats of the Four Seas.

At New York Comic Con, Humanoids announced the H1 imprint, which will take place in a shared superpowered universe with new characters and stories, and will host the first ongoing periodicals in the publisher’s history.

A new creative team is moving in with Buffy the Vampire Slayer at its new home with BOOM! Studios.

IDW Publishing is celebrating its 20th anniversary in style with a weekly event starting in January.

At New York Comic Con, AfterShock Comics unveiled two original graphic novels from proven talent.

Catan GmbH is lending its support to the Global Crop Diversity Trust by publishing the Catan Crop Trust Scenario kit.

Marvel announced it would be adapting its scripted podcast Wolverine: The Long Night into a comic book.