PC gamer also has an indepth preview of the Halloween update check it out at http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/29/minecraft-halloween-update-hands-on/ full of awesome sauce
I like this bit lol
Yeah, so going through slipgates didn’t work quite how I thought. At this particular spot in the Slip, I don’t run into any of its inhabitants. But later, I met my first Ghast: floating jellyfish that shoot fireballs at you. They’re much, much bigger than I realised: several metres across by the looks of it. But they keep their distance and they’re almost always floating in the air, so it’s hard to judge. Sometimes it feels like they’ve changed size. It’s pretty much impossible to get close enough to hit one with a sword, and I think in most cases you’re better off avoiding them than fighting anyway. Their fireballs hurt if they hit, and make the world trickier to navigate by setting fire to chunks of it, but they’re actually a lot easier to avoid than I’d feared. They don’t seem to predict your movement when aiming, so you can usually run away. That’s when I bumped into the other inhabitants of the Slip, the ones we hadn’t seen before. You hear zombie gurglings and turn to see this: It’s a Zombie Pigman. They’re horrible to look at, but actually not hostile: you can run right up to them and they’ll just stare emptily at you. Of course, I did that with three Ghasts on my tail, so shortly after the poor guy was hit with a fireball, set alight and killed. Fact: they drop pork chops when they die. They also oink like a pig occasionally. I quite like them, so I wouldn’t normally do this, but for the sake of experimentation I had to try attacking one. Don’t attack one. Admittedly I didn’t have a lot of health when I did it, but the result was a flash of pain and an instant ‘Game Over’ screen. In the background, the thing’s head was just gibbering on me, apparently biting me over and over. Then a Ghast shot him with a fireball and he oinked. Hell is a strange place.
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