Tag: Netflix
News Netflix's Recent AAA Studio Closure Part of Planned AI Pivot
Team "Blue" boasted veterans of God of War, Halo, and Overwatch
Last month, Game File reported that Netflix had unceremoniously shuttered one of its internal development studios, "Team Blue". Likely having spent vast sums on securing splashy talents like longtime Halo creative lead Joseph Staten and God of War art director Raffael Grassetti, those...
Going underground
We’re in the eye of a video game adaptation frenzy, but Tomb Raider has always been well ahead of the curve. During the peak of its early 2000s popularity, Angelina Jolie signed on to star as the well-endowed archaeologist Lara Croft, in a movie that would buck the trend of game-related Box Office busts and gross over $250...
News There Is a God! Netflix Is Bringing Us More Cyberpunk Anime
Details are scarce for now
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is extraordinary. If you haven’t watched Netflix’s anime adaptation yet, you should rectify that immediately; it’s wonderfully animated and extremely dark – as you’d perhaps expect from a series inspired by CD Projekt RED’s dystopian sandbox game. Now, in the aftermath of Netflix Geeked,...
News Here's Your First Good Look at Netflix's Devil May Cry Anime Series
Jackpot
In case you forgot, Netflix and Capcom announced a Devil May Cry anime last year. It's been nearly a year since we saw the very brief first teaser, and now we've been treated to a slightly less brief teaser trailer, introducing viewers to Dante (from the Devil May Cry series). Spearheaded by Adi Shankar (who also brought us Netflix's...
News Wind's Howling Through This Netflix The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep Clip
Nothing but a softy
It feels like an eternity since the release of CD Projekt Red's groundbreaking RPG, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and though a sequel is in the works, Geralt of Rivia will not be the protagonist. Thankfully, you can get your fix of gravelly-voice
News Lara Croft's Working on Her Sh*t in Netflix Animated Show
A new hope
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is bringing gaming’s iconic heroine into all-new medium this October, when the series’ first animated show debuts on Netflix. The story will take place after the events of the most recent games, and will cast Hayley Atwell as the buxom British adventurer. And in an interview with Nerdist,...
News Big Daddy Expectations Lowered as Netflix Douses BioShock Film Budget
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
Hopes for a BioShock movie worthy of the legendary gaming IP are underwater as news that Netflix has slashed the film's budget surfaces. Following a change in leadership at the firm, the project's budget has been cut to ribbons and will be "reconfigured" into something smaller and "more personal"...
News Netflix's Horizon Zero Dawn TV Show Reportedly on Ice
Horizon Zero Adaptations
A new report from Rolling Stone claims that the TV adaptation of Horizon Zero Dawn is "no longer moving forward". The news comes as part of a wider story concerning showrunner Steve Blackman; he has been accused of toxic behaviour by several anonymous sources who have worked with him on the show
Random Rockstar's GTA Trilogy Racks Up Over 30 Million Downloads on Netflix
Tommy Vercetti, remember the name
In news that probably shouldn't be surprising but remains mildly interesting, Rockstar's GTA Trilogy has surpassed 30 million downloads on streaming service Netflix. Who would have thought that iconic games, made so readily available, would be played so widely? Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas...
News Netflix's Animated Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft Starts in October
The story of the Survivor continues
Netflix's animated Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Craft has a release date, with the globetrotting treasure hunter venturing to the streaming service on 10th October. We got a brief look at the legendary character in the action, teasing the kinds of high-action antics to come, and it looks pretty damn slick...
News Feast Your Eyes on Liam Hemsworth as Geralt in The Witcher Season Four
Blaviken, butchered?
Previously only glimpsed, we've gotten our first official look at the new Geralt of Rivia, Liam Hemsworth, who has taken up the mantle of the White Wolf from Henry Cavill in season four of Netflix's The Witcher adaptation. In the short teaser, we see Hemsworth looking particularly brooding in the snow-covered woods, along with...
News The Witcher's Ciri Says She Hopes Fans Give Liam Hemsworth a Chance as Geralt
"That fan base can be very attack-y"
Netflix's The Witcher has quietly been blazing a trail for the recent mainstream acceptance of video game IP making the jump to TV, best exemplified by HBOs The Last of Us and Amazon's Fallout adaptations. We learned in 2022 that Henry Cavill would be laying down his swords at the end of Season 3, with Australian...
Random Yes, Netflix Really Is Getting GTA for Christmas
The most wonderful time of the year
We reported earlier in the year that Netflix had big-brain ideas for the oft-overlooked gaming arm of its business, and here’s the bombshell: the streaming subscription will add all three entries from Rockstar’s remastered GTA Trilogy on 14th December. While not strictly PlayStation news in the purest sense,...
News Gravelly-Voiced Geralt Voice Actor to Reprise Role in The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
Doug Cockle is back on deck
Fellow walkers of The Path rejoice: the gravelly voice of Geralt you know and love from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is reprising the role in an animated movie coming to Netflix called The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. The inimitable Doug Cockle will return sometime "late" next year in the film, which will see Geralt...
News Netflix Aims to Be PlayStation's Next Big Rival, And It Wants Grand Theft Auto
Here comes a new challenger
With the exception of Nintendo, there’s no question Sony is gaming’s market leader – but its position is not going unopposed. Microsoft recently spent almost $70 billion on Activision Blizzard in order to bolster its competitive situation, while the likes of Amazon and even Apple are eyeing the space with cautious...
News Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix Brings Animated Ubisoft Action to Netflix
Forget everything you know
Not to be outdone, Ubisoft is apparently getting in on the animated arms race currently underway on streaming service Netflix, and in a rather surprising way. Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix is an imaginative take on the larger Ubiverse, and it's headed for Netflix alongside the just-announced Devil May Cry and...
News Tomb Raider's Next on the Netflix Animation Train
The Legend of Lara Croft
Netflix has announced that an animated adaptation of what seems to be the most recent Tomb Raider games is now in production. Officially titled Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, the series is "coming soon" to the streaming service. It's being put together by Legendary Television — a company that has numerous projects...
News The New Devil May Cry Anime Is Real, Coming Soon to Netflix
Cry for more
Devil May Cry is getting a new anime adaptation, Netflix has announced via a very brief teaser trailer. Capcom's beloved action series has always been an obvious candidate for such a project, and this one sounds promising. It's being crafted by South Korean animation outfit Studio Mir (The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender,...
News Netflix's Onimusha Anime Looks Legit Good in Action-Packed Debut Trailer
Arrives early November
In case you'd forgotten, Onimusha is making its grand return — as a Netflix series. Announced last year, the beloved Capcom series is being adapted into an anime-style show, and we've just gotten our first look at it in motion. The debut trailer (above) introduces us to Musashi Miyamoto, a Sengoku period samurai who finds...
News God of War Art Director Joins Netflix for AAA Project
A new IP from the company
Raf Grassetti, the former art director at God of War team Santa Monica Studio, has today announced he's joining Netflix to help create "a new original IP AAA game". Working with the likes of Joseph Staten (Halo), Jerry Edsall (Shadowrun, Gears 5), and Chacko Sonny (former executive producer of
News Sonic Prime Trailer Takes You to an Alternate Reality with Multiple Eggmen
Baker's dozen
The first full trailer for Sonic Prime has been released, giving us a much clearer picture of what to expect from the Netflix series. Sonic explores a new frontier when a mysterious crystal goes boom, unleashing a dimensional rift that forces him into a lost world where he meets a new generation of his colourful friends, including...
News Missing Thedas? Netflix's Animated Dragon Age: Absolution Series Might Be the Cure
Welcome to Miriam's story
With Dreadwolf on the horizon, starving Dragon Age fans finally have another massive roleplaying experience to look forward to. The wait just got a little easier, too, with the release of the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix animated series Dragon Age: Absolution, which looks pretty darn good. The animation is...
News The Witcher Will Return for a Fourth Season on Netflix, without Henry Cavill
The Hunger Games' Liam Hemsworth to pick up Geralt's gauntlet
Netflix’s wildly successful adaptation of The Witcher will return for a fourth season, but without Henry Cavill as iconic protagonist Geralt of Rivia. The role will instead be assumed by Australian actor Liam Hemsworth, who’s probably best known for his performances in The Hunger...
News Toss a Coin to the Third Season of Netflix's The Witcher
Prequel Blood Origin airs on Xmas Day
Resident Evil’s divisive television adaptation may have been canned, but The Witcher will return for a third full-length season on Netflix in Summer 2023. Of course, if you can’t wait that long, then you can look forward to prequel The Witcher: Blood Origin, which will debut on Christmas Day later this year...
News Onimusha Finally Returns... As a Netflix Anime
Created by Takashi Miike
Today in cursed monkey paw wishes, Capcom's Onimusha series is coming back — but not as a video game. Netflix has announced a new anime based on the property, and to be fair, it could be cool. Apparently, prolific director Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer, 13 Assassins, and many more) is behind the project,...
TV Show Review Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Netflix) - Hyperviolent Anime Is a Perfect 2077 Companion
Up and over the edge
Let's get right into it: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is a really, really good show. Judged alone, it's one of the hardest-hitting anime we've watched in quite some time, but put it alongside Cyberpunk 2077, and it's a near perfect companion piece. This isn't some half-arsed video game adaptation scrapped together by people who don't...
News Watch the New Teaser Trailer for Netflix's Sonic Prime, Arrives This Winter
Primed and ready
It feels like an age since the initial announcement of Sonic Prime, but it seems the animated Netflix show is very nearly here. The upcoming series will be a brand new story featuring the blue hedgehog and all his familiar friends and enemies. We get our best look at what to expect in the new teaser trailer, embedded above. Details...
News Resident Evil Netflix Series Won't Be Renewed for a Second Season
After weak viewership figures
Netflix won't be renewing its TV adaptation of Resident Evil for a second season, the streaming company has confirmed via Deadline. As the site reports, this doesn't come as too much of a surprise since viewership stats were disappointing across its first three weeks on the service. Released in close proximity to the...
News Aloy Confirmed for Horizon Netflix Show, Helmed By Umbrella Academy Showrunner
Bet you didn't see that one coming
The Netflix series based on Horizon Zero Dawn will feature everyone's favourite flame-haired heroine after all, it has been confirmed. We also learned that the showrunner of The Umbrella Academy, Steve Blackman, has been tapped to head up the project, which will also include some production crew that have worked on...
News Tom Holland's Uncharted Movie Is Most Watched on Netflix
Charted
Update: Just a couple of days after being added to Netflix, the Uncharted movie has climbed straight to the top of the streaming service’s charts. It’s an impressive feat, given it’s up against strong competition from the likes of The Gray Man and Purple Hearts. The movie, of course, already enjoyed a tremendously successful cinematic...
News Netflix Animated Series Tekken: Bloodline Gets Ready for Battle This August
Check out the new trailer
Netflix has announced its animated series Tekken: Bloodline will hit the service on 18th August 2022. To go along with the announcement is this new story trailer, which reveals a little more about Jin Kazama's journey. To recap, this is an origin tale of sorts for Jin, who is trained up by Heihachi Mishima after his mother...
News Of Course Netflix Wants Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Show
Tall order
Netflix’s new Resident Evil show is absolutely ridiculous, so it’ll take some work to top the silliness in a hypothetical second season. One way to do it, however, would be to embrace the memes and introduce Resident Evil: Village’s ginormous Lady Dimitrescu – and if showrunner Andrew Dabb has his way, that’s exactly what will...
TV Show Review Resident Evil (Netflix) - Braindead Horror for the Riverdale Crowd
Switch off your brrrains
The world would be a much better place if it wasn’t for shady pharmaceutical companies with megalomaniacs in charge. This is certainly true of Resident Evil’s Umbrella Corporation, led by the unhinged Evelyn Marcos (Paola Núñez), who repeatedly reminds viewers she wants to change the world. Despite largely being...
First Impressions Resident Evil Netflix Deviates from the Games But Still Entertains
Umbrella Balinska
There’s not a lot of connective tissue between Netflix’s deceptively named 2022 television adaptation of Resident Evil and Capcom’s games. A shady pharmaceutical company named Umbrella takes centre stage, and part of the action is staged in a dystopian South African town named New Raccoon City – but so far, that’s where...
Round Up Resident Evil Netflix TV Show Reviews Are All Over the Place
The verdicts are in
Today's the day Netflix's futuristic adaptation of Resident Evil hits the streaming service, presenting two timelines for fans to follow across eight episodes. It's available to watch now, but what do critics make of the show? Well, there doesn't exactly seem to be a general consensus forming given the review scores we've spotted...
Cast Lance Reddick, or we riot
We've known for a little while now that Sony has a Horizon TV show in the works that will be streaming on Netflix, but precious little else was known about the mysterious project. Until now, that is. As spotted by journalist Jeff Grubb, and expounded upon by
News Uncharted Movie Plunders Netflix from 15th July
Buried treasure
The Uncharted Movie has been a huge hit for Sony, with its theatrical run reeling in over $400 million. Now the film is set to earn a few more fans, as it leaps to Netflix for its streaming debut. According to What’s on Netflix, the movie will be available for members in the US to
News Here's a Better Look at That New Resident Evil Netflix Show
We're sure you'll love it
Netflix is really dragging out the build-up for its new Resident Evil adaptation, but this is the best – and longest – look at the new show yet. We get to see Ella Balinska hulking out in future London, where she takes a chainsaw to the throat of the walking dead. As with past trailers, we also get a glimpse of New...
News Oh, Joy! Second Resident Evil Netflix Trailer Sets Up the Story
Happy pills
You’ve probably already seen the first teaser trailer for Netflix’s adaptation of Resident Evil – it’s been viewed over one million times since debuting yesterday – but this follow-up lays out the plot a little better. As you’ll recall, New Raccoon City is an idyllic urban metropolis, and it’s seemingly powered by a new...
News Here's Your First Look at Netflix's Resident Evil
The horror
Unlike last year’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, which was squarely aimed at fans of the franchise, Netflix’s adaptation has always looked set to plot a different path. And this trailer hammers that point home. Due out on 14th July, we’re introduced to New Raccoon City, a seemingly dystopian neighbourhood filled with...
News Netflix Gives Us a Brief Glimpse at Animated Series Sonic Prime
Netflix and quill
Sonic the Hedgehog isn't just spin-dashing onto the big screen, he's also making a return to the realm of television. Netflix and SEGA have joined forces to create a brand new animated series called Sonic Prime, announced last year. Today, the subscription service has unveiled a very small look at how the show is shaping up. At the...
News Tekken: Bloodline Is a Netflix Animated Series Coming Later This Year
Keeping Up with the Kazamas
If you've been wondering what's going on with Tekken, it seems Bandai Namco's next move is not a new entry in the storied fighting game franchise. Instead, a freshly announced animated series from Netflix has surfaced, named Tekken: Bloodline. As you can see in the above teaser trailer, this is an anime focusing on the...
News Netflix's Live-Action Resident Evil TV Series Debuts This July
Evil has evolved
Streaming service Netflix has announced its live-action adaptation of Resident Evil will drop on 14th July 2022. This TV series will tell an entirely original tale within the universe, casting the likes of Lance Reddick and Ella Balinska. A couple of new pieces of general key art were released alongside the announcement, which you...
News Netflix Nabs Rights to BioShock Movie Adaptation
A time to build and a time to destroy
Update: A press release expands on Netflix's BioShock announcement, confirming that the project will be produced by 2K and Vertigo Entertainment of The LEGO Movie fame. “Netflix is among the best and most forward-thinking storytellers in all of entertainment today,” said Take Two boss Strauss Zelnick. “We...
News Netflix Buys Oxenfree Developer Night School Studio
War never changes
A new challenger has entered the ring: Netflix has acquired Oxenfree developer Night School Studio. Don’t worry, though, work will continue on the sequel, set to release on the PlayStation 5 and PS4 next year. “Netflix gives film, TV, and now game makers an unprecedented canvas to create and deliver excellent entertainment to...
News Netflix to Offer Mobile Games As Part of Subscription
No evidence of a partnership with PlayStation
It doesn’t sound like there’s much to those PlayStation assets discovered within the Netflix app’s source code: the streaming giant has announced plans to offer smartphone games as part of its existing subscription. This content will be provided at no extra cost, as the company attempts to retain...
News Netflix Allegedly Plotting Gaming Service, and PlayStation Could Be a Partner
Sony assets discovered in service's source code
Netflix appears poised to enter the gaming arena, after it announced earlier this week that it had hired ex-EA executive Mike Verdu to lead its expansion into the lucrative sector. While this could, potentially, be considered yet another headache for market leader PlayStation, it’s possible the...
News Netflix's The Witcher: Season 2 Saddles Up on 17th December
Signed and sealed
The second season of Netflix’s wildly popular The Witcher adaptation will air from 17th December, and here’s the teaser trailer you’ve probably been waiting for. Confirmed during this week’s WitcherCon, the show will see Henry Cavill once again reprise his role as the Butcher of Blaviken, as Geralt of Rivia is reunited with...
News Lance Reddick, Ella Balinska Star in Netflix's Resident Evil
Reddick is Wesker
Netflix has cast The Wire’s Lance Reddick as Albert Wesker in its live-action adaptation of Resident Evil. PlayStation fans will, of course, recognise the American actor for his role as Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn, but here he will play one of gaming’s most iconic villains in a show that sounds like it will deviate...
News Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Sees the Light on Netflix from July 2021
Spin-off series slated for summer
Spin-off series Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness will beam to Netflix from July 2021, and here’s a new trailer featuring CG stars Leon S Kennedy and Claire Redfield to prove it. The story is set after the events of Resident Evil 4, and revolves around a hacking incident at the White House. The above trailer shows...
