Tag: Tv
News Druckmann 'Excited and Curious' to See How The Last of Us HBO Audience Will React to Season 2
Shock and delight, but mostly shock
We can't help but feel a little apprehensive as we inch closer to the start of Season 2 of HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us. As we are now officially entering The Last of Us 2 territory, it's almost time for the much larger TV audience to discover one specific reason why that game was so controversially...
News Druckmann on The Last of Us HBO Story Outpacing the Games: 'I Leave Nothing on the Line'
We don't want another Game of Thrones situation
We didn't know how badly we wanted a third entry in The Last of Us franchise, one more harrowing adventure in Naughty Dog's bleak world, until director Neil Druckmann cast doubt on it ever happening. He's so busy adapting the series for HBO, not to mention overseeing Intergalactic: The Heretic...
News Amazon Bullish on God of War, Two Seasons Have Already Been Ordered
Where's the R1 button, boy?!
It seems it hasn't been exactly smooth sailing up the River Styx for Amazon's proposed TV adaptation of Sony's God of War IP, which was recently scrapped, starting over from scratch. Nevertheless, the colossal company remains (Cretan) bullish on the project and has already ordered two seasons, sight unseen. That's...
News The Last of Us Popularity Surges as Season 2 TV Trailer Breaks Records
158 million views in three days
HBO's bet on its TV adaptation of The Last of Us is truly starting to pay off now, as the new trailer for the show's second season is breaking company records. In the three days since its release, the official trailer has gained 158 million views across all platforms, making it the most-watched HBO and Max trailer...
News Devil May Cry's Netflix Anime Is Dividing Fans Big Time
This is your last resort
Devil May Cry is the next video game franchise to get an animation adaptation, following on from Tomb Raider last year. This one’s being produced by Korean team Studio Mir, the group behind the excellent X-Men ’97, so it has some real pedigree behind it. Capcom is also involved. But based on this launch trailer, ahead...
News Abby Actress Kaitlyn Dever Aware of Outsized Expectations for Role in HBO's The Last of Us
"I want to do this character justice"
Hollywood star Kaitlyn Dever knew what she was getting into when accepting the role of Abigail "Abby" Anderson, and would not be the first woman to receive abuse from unhinged "fans" for portraying the role. HBO is aware of the extreme toxicity in some parts of the video game community concerning the character,...
News This Trailer for HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 May Be An All-Time Great
Your body is still not ready
Holy heck has HBO nailed this trailer for The Last of Us Season 2! Due out on HBO Max from 13th April, this epic two-minute taster is filled with familiar scenes from the game – and a couple of new ones, too. Series creator Neil Druckmann and showrunner Craig Mazin have already confirmed this new series will dig into...
News HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 Locks in 13th April Release
Every path has a price
HBO has now confirmed its TV adaptation of The Last of Us will return for a second season on 13th April 2025. Looking to cover at least some of the events that take place in The Last of Us 2, three new posters have been revealed to mark the occasion. They feature Joel, Ellie, and Abby along with an "every path has a price"...
News HBO's The Last of Us Will Likely Run for Four Seasons
It can't be for nothing
HBO's excellent adaptation of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us doesn't have a definitive end in sight, but "it's currently looking like four seasons" will be needed to tell the tale as we know it. That's according to a new interview from Deadline with HBO executive Francesca Orsi (thanks, Eurogamer). Potentially giving everyone...
News Peacock's Surprisingly Great Twisted Metal TV Series Returns This Summer
Heavy metal
Twisted Metal had no right to be as fun as it was. The television series adaptation was a barrel of laughs, and unsurprisingly was picked up for a second season after performing well above expectations. And here’s your first taste of the new series, which brings the story back to its original inspiration. For those of you who...
News The Ghoul Says Fallout Season 2 Blows the First 'Out of the Water'
Walter Goggins would know
Fallout fans starved of the life-giving essence of Amazon's excellent TV adaptation have been thrown a bone; filming was paused due to the LA wildfires (with firefighting efforts being hindered by none other than the co-founder of Treyarch), but star Walter Goggins, who plays The Ghoul, says that what they've got cooking...
Guide Best TVs for PS5 in 2025
The top 4K TVs for PS5 and 8K TVs for PS5 Pro
What are the best 4K and 8K TVs for PS5 and PS5 Pro in 2025? Sony has ushered in the next stage of console gaming with PlayStation 5 and the upgraded PS5 Pro, bringing new technology that demands the right display to shine. No matter what television set you currently own, you’ll notice an immediate...
News Abby's Muscles Less Relevant to HBO's The Last of Us Adaption
A shame to see those gains go to waste
Kaitlyn Dever, who will play Abigail "Abby" Anderson in Season 2 of HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us, didn't have to bulk up for the role. According to showrunner and Naughty Dog head honcho Neil Druckmann, this is, amongst other things, because "there's not as much violent action moment to moment." Speaking...
News Critically Maligned 90s Street Fighter Animated Series to Make Shock Blu-ray Comeback
Darkstalkers adaptation, too
Capcom’s crappy 90s Street Fighter animated series is making a surprise comeback, courtesy of boutique Blu-ray publisher Discotek. The re-release, which will feature all 26 original episodes, will be preserved using a format the publisher is dubbing SD-BD. This basically means that the content will be presented in its...
News Vive La Return of Castlevania: Nocturne, Season 2 Is Almost Here
"We march on Paris, to cut this revolution's head off"
Fans of Netflix's excellent animated adaptation of Konami's immortal Castlevania series rejoice! Not only do we have a revolutionary new trailer for you, but we bring news that streaming begins on 16th January, and this time, Alucard and company are tasked with cutting the head off of Erzsebet...
News Fallout Season 2 Filming Paused Due to LA Fires
Permits withdrawn for safety
The filming and production of Fallout's second TV season from Amazon Prime has had to stop as a result of the many fires currently raging across Los Angeles. Work on the TV show was scheduled to take place in the Santa Clarita area of LA earlier this week, but permits to film in districts in the city have been withdrawn...
News Final Fantasy 7, Advent Children Producer Would Love to See More Adaptations
Yoshinori Kitase says it's time
Yoshinori Kitase, the legendary veteran director of Final Fantasy VII, VIII, X, and current producer of the Remake trilogy (fresh off Rebirth), thinks it is time for another adaptation of the iconic universe. As the producer of 2005's excellent CGI action film Advent Children, Kitase would know, and we'
News HBO's The Last of Us: Season 2 Debuts in April
This should be fun
Sony brought Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann up on stage during its CES 2025 presentation to briefly talk about new game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, before transitioning to The Last of Us and its forthcoming second season from HBO. After a short trailer – which shows act
News Eerie Survival Driving Game Pacific Drive Is Getting a TV Adaptation from Horror Legend
Atomic Monster picks up TV rights
An early indie hit in 2024 was Pacific Drive, a unique supernatural survival game that's all about exploring a mysterious exclusion zone in a banged up station wagon. This premise, the loose story, and involved, engrossing gameplay has made it somewhat of a cult hit, and it's still receiving meaningful updates too...
News Amazon's Secret Level Has Been Renewed for a Second Season
Anthology series set for return
Secret Level, the animated video game anthology series, is getting a second season. The show has been a big success for Amazon, claiming the title for the biggest debut for a new animated series. It makes sense that the company would greenlight another batch of episodes. The show features episodes each based on a...
News CD Projekt Red Partners with Netflix for New Cyberpunk Animated Series
Good news, straight from Night City
Fans of the excellent Cyberpunk: Edgerunners are sitting pretty, with CD Projekt Red today confirming a partnership with Netflix to produce another animated project set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077. We have to assume it will be something separate from Edgerunners, however, as CD Projekt has not confirmed another...
News Secret Level's Concord Episode Has a Trailer, and It Feels Really Weird
What's Concord?
Ouch, this stings a bit. Sony released and then quickly obliterated the sci-fi multiplayer shooter Concord earlier this year, but we've yet to see the last of it; the game will be part of Amazon Prime's Secret Level anthology series. While the game itself was taken offline after a disastrous launch, the TV show — which adapts...
News Game of Thrones Star Sophie Turner Might Play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider TV Show
Two parties now negotiating
Sophie Turner, best known for her work as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones, is reportedly taking strides towards playing the role of Lara Croft in the upcoming live-action Tomb Raider TV series from Amazon Prime. Deadline reports the two parties are "in negotiations" to hash out a deal that would see Turner star as the...
News See Mega-Man, Pac-Man, and Armored Core Like Never Before in Secret Level Official Trailer
Enter Secret Level?
The upcoming Amazon anthology series Secret Level is a pretty exciting prospect, adapting 15 video game universes and spanning the full spectrum of animation. It will put lesser-known IPs like Sifu, Armored Core, and yes, even Concord in front of eyeballs that would previously have never seen them, and we got our best look at the...
News You'll Never See This Potential TV Mass Effect Commander Shepard Pick Coming
"Takin' over Earth and still kickin' in Uranus"
With Fast & Furious 9 writer Daniel Casey signed on to pen Amazon's upcoming Mass Effect TV adaptation, things could really go in any direction. One future we never would have predicted, however, was the potential inclusion of one John Anthony Felix Cena, presumably as Commander Shepard, who you...
News Secret Level Creator Comments on Concord's Awkward Anthology Inclusion
“I honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work"
The brief but explosive saga of Sony's failed service punt, Concord, isn't over yet. Your favourite Freegunners will ride again in Secret Level from 10th December, the focus of one of the anthology series' 15 episodes. Secret Level's Tim Miller has noted the elephant in the room for the first...
News Macaulay Culkin Confirmed for Season 2 of Amazon's Fallout Show
Former child star headed for the Mojave
Kevin McCallister himself, Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (yes, that is the actor's legal name, following a poll in 2019), has been confirmed to be joining Amazon's Fallout series. Culkin will apparently "play a crazy genius-type character." The series is headed towards the Mojave Desert next, the setting of...
News Movement from Amazon's Mass Effect TV Series, Fast & Furious 9 Writer Signed
M9: The Shepard Saga
If the long-awaited launch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard wasn't enough to satiate your BioWare cravings, we've finally had an update on that Mass Effect TV series first reported in 2021. An adaptation is officially being developed at Amazon MGM Studios by Fast & Furious 9 writer Daniel Casey. Word comes to us through an...
Why so serious?
If you’re a long-time Yakuza fan like this author, it’s worth remembering just how far the franchise now known as Like a Dragon has come. SEGA had once famously given up on the series outside of Japan, leaving Yakuza 5’s localisation duties to Sony. A little less than a decade later, it finds itself the subject of a...
News Space Marine 2 Story Set to Continue in Amazon's Secret Level Anthology
Post-human credit sequence
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 fans who can't get enough of the eternally-stoic Ultramarine Captain Titus will be glad to know actor Clive Standen will reprise the role in Amazon's upcoming Secret Level animated anthology series. Amazon and Games Workshop have now confirmed that the episode takes place after the game's...
News Filming for the Fallout TV Show's Second Season Will Start Again Very Soon
That was quick
Fallout was a big hit for Amazon Prime, and it’s wasting no time getting started on the second season. <related ids="164485"> According to an interview with Screen Rant at the New York Comic Con this weekend, Leslie Uggams – who played Vault 33 Overseer Betty Pearson – said
News Boy! Sony and Amazon to Start from Scratch on God of War TV Show
Turns out television is tough
Sony’s been doing a good job adapting its flagship franchises into TV shows and movies, with the likes of The Last of Us, Twisted Metal, and Gran Turismo all doing decently. But recently it hit a snag with Netflix’s take on Horizon, and now
News Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Most Horrifying Moment Could Be Yours for $300
Look out below
A Cyberpunk: Edgerunners statue depicting Adam Smasher about to do what he does best could be yours, provided you're willing to pony up $300. From Dark Horse, the statue is pretty cool, with characters Adam and Rebecca locked in a fight going entirely one way. Beware, spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners to follow! Spotted by PC...
News Leaked Secret Level Trailer Reveals Anthology Series' Star-Studded Cast
Multiple Schwarzeneggers
A trailer for Amazon's upcoming animated video game anthology series has leaked, and just as swiftly, been pulled from the internet by a DMCA takedown notice. It was up long enough for eagle-eyed observers to jot down some interesting details, however, such as the surprisingly star-studded cast involved. While we blissfully...
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 Dragon of Dojima Roars in Official Like a Dragon: Yakuza Trailer
Prime's series looking like a love letter to fans
Prime's live-action adaptation of RGG's legendary Yakuza/Like a Dragon series will premiere on 24th October on Prime, and judging from the above trailer, it's going to be a banger. The melodramatic action drama delves into the lives and times of the shadowy Japanese underworld and its inhabitants,...
News The Last of Us Season 2 Debuts in 2025, Here's Your First Look
Oh, boy
You may think your heart’s ready to deal with The Last of Us: Part 2 all over again, but it’s probably not. To celebrate The Last of Us Day, HBO has released the first full length trailer for the second season of its hit live action adaptation. In the video, we see various familiar scenes from the game, including the town of Jackson, new...
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 PlayStation, Concord to Feature in Amazon Prime's Secret Level
An episode dedicated to beloved PS Studios titles
Secret Level, the upcoming Amazon Prime anthology show executive produced by Deadpool’s Tim Miller, will feature episodes dedicated to PlayStation and hero shooter Concord. There’ll be 15 episodes in all, each inspired by a different game. Other recognised properties include Pac-Man, Spelunky,...
News Shooting on the Twisted Metal TV Show's Second Season Is Underway
Here comes chaos
Against all expectations, the Twisted Metal television show was an absolute riot. The show, starring Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz, opted for a dark comedy vibe – and it was genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, with kooky storylines and oddball characters. It went on to become a big hit on streaming platform Peacock, and was...
News The Last of Us Season 2 TV Teaser Trailer Revealed
"I saved her"
HBO has posted the first official glimpse at its second season of The Last of Us, which looks to adapt a portion of PS5, PS4 exclusive The Last of Us: Part II. Across just 24 seconds of footage — which first appeared in a video documenting what HBO Max has to offer between now and 2025 — we see the memorable dancing scene in...
News Like a Dragon: Yakuza Show Won't Have Time for Karaoke, But Singing 'May Come Eventually'
Sad ballad
Amazon's upcoming adaptation Like a Dragon: Yakuza will, tragically, not have the runtime to tackle Kazuma Kiryu's enduring passion for karaoke, it's been revealed. However, all hope is not lost as raucous, drunken singing "may come eventually". Unfortunately, the show's first offering will be just six episodes, so the sillier side of...
News RGG Boss Says First Episode of Like a Dragon: Yakuza Made Him Scream, Take a Smoke Break
Rave reviews
The head of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, Masayoshi Yokoyama, says that the first episode of the upcoming live-action Like a Dragon adaptation from Amazon made him scream, with a "major surprise" at the end requiring him to take a relaxing cigarette break. The revelation comes via a video shown by SEGA during San Diego Comic-Con, in which the...
News Here's Your First Look at the Like a Dragon: Yakuza Television Show
Sick ink
You won’t extract a whole lot from this teaser trailer for Amazon Prime’s television adaptation of Like a Dragon: Yakuza, but we suppose it sets the scene. The 70-second clip shows protagonist Kazuma Kiryu getting his trademark ink before cutting to a couple of shots of seedy Shinjuku ward Kabukicho, which of course will be presented as...
News Amazon's Excellent Fallout TV Adaptation Up for 16 Emmy Awards
Critical hit
Fans and critics alike went equally feral for Amazon's adaptation of the legendary WRPG franchise, Fallout. The series managed to break through to mainstream audiences outside the realm of games, garnering significant industry attention and, subsequently, has been nominated for no less than 16 Emmy awards, including Best Actor and...
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
News New Vegas Antagonist Reveals Hand, Confirmed for Season 2 of Amazon's Fallout Adaptation
The House always wins
Amazon's surprisingly great TV adaptation was a hit with fans of Bethesda's depiction of the Fallout universe, and shocking no one, a second season is already in the works. The show's final episode clearly indicated where the series would go next, and now we've had concrete confirmation. Warning: Spoilers for the final episode...
