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Among Us costumes guide: how to unlock seasonal skins and outfits

Want to know how to unlock Among Us costumes? There are a wonderful array of Among Us free hats and accessories available, which adorn your little space bean as they cavort through the corridors - either on their way to a gruesome death, or in search of a hapless victim. If you're looking to freshen up your Among Us outfit and try out a new style, you'll notice you've now got access to Among Us Halloween hats, which are unlocked and available to all players - so you can pop a pumpkin on your head, stick a fake machete to your face (hopefully not tempting fate) or try your best to look innocent in a pair of devil horns.

These new Among Us Halloween styles will be unlocked automatically by logging into Among Us in the weeks coming up to Halloween itself, October 31. Among Us Halloween hats and costumes aren't the only seasonal addition to Among Us; some of the Among Us maps - The Skeld and Mira HQ, to be precise - have been decorated in a Halloween theme.

You'll find green goop dripping mysteriously from corners, gourds hanging out wherever they please, bats all over the walls, and bowls of candy spread throughout the maps. There's even a cute little InnerSloth ghost hiding in a corner. If you've noticed people running around with witches' hats atop their brightly coloured heads in previous weeks, chances are they used some time travel shenanigans to set their computers to the spooky season early. Though you'll no longer stand out from the crowd with Among Us Halloween hats, there are more seasonal ensembles to unlock early using the same method - here's how to get them.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's new Twitch channel gets partnered within an hour

Ahead of the US Election next month, Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has devised an interesting strategy to convince young people to vote: become a Twitch streamer.

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted out on October 19 in search of people to play Among Us with her for what would be her first ever Twitch stream. As you can expect, she was inundated with applications in the comments, and it seems as if two of Twitch's biggest streamers have landed a spot on the Among Us stream. Both Imane 'Pokimane' Anys and Hasan 'Hasan' Piker received replies from the congresswoman.

In preparation for the star-studded Among Us stream, Ocasio-Cortez created a Twitch account. While it takes most new creators years to even get near to Twitch Partner status, AOC's channel managed to achieve it in less than an hour. At the time of writing, which is around 14 hours on from when she created her channel, AOC has over 170,000 followers.

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Among Us maps: vent locations, emergencies, and visual tasks

Looking for tips on how to play each Among us map? Once you've got intimate knowledge of each Among Us map, your chances of winning will rapidly increase. The very first thing a new Among Us player must learn is the name and location of every room on the map - if you're trying to figure out which one of your friends is leaving a trail of bodies in their wake, you need to know what it means when they claim to have been doing tasks in electrical while a body was found in medbay? Hint: that's suspicious. Hella sus, as they say. If you don't know why, then you need this guide.

It goes without saying that as an impostor, you need to know where all the emergencies take place, so you can direct your unwitting victims accordingly. Not only that, but knowing which vents lead where is instrumental in figuring out suspects' potential escape routes, as well as planning a robust alibi if you're an impostor.

Even for experienced Amongers (that's not what they're called) who already know these basics, it's also important to know which parts of the map the security cameras can see, and where the second stages of common tasks like wiring could end up. There are also important differences between each Among Us map, which will inform your playstyle and strategy - so here's everything you need to know about The Skeld, Polus, and Mira HQ.

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FaZe Clan announce Among Us In-Vent-Ational tournament

FaZe Clan has announced it is running a tournament for the extremely popular title, Among Us. The tournament has been humorously dubbed the 'Among Us In-Vent-Ational' and is planned to run for one day on October 19 at 14:00 PT / 22:00 BST.

There are 40 spaces in total open for content creators, streamers, and celebrities. So far, confirmed participants include, Yousef 'FaZe Apex' Abdelfattah, Josue 'FaZe Sway' Sway, and LeBron James' son, LeBron 'FaZe Bronny' James Jr. with more competitors to be announced shortly. Each player will have extra incentive with a cash prize of $25,000 on the line.

The tournament will be a solo competitor game which will create a free-for-all environment among players where no one can be trusted and everyone is sus. FaZe Clan will air the Among Us In-Vent-Ational livestream on their official YouTube and Twitch channels, and to reward viewers for tuning in FaZe Clan merchandise will be given out to selected lucky viewers.

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