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Frosthaven game director explains the challenges of adapting the hit dungeon-crawler board game
Snapshot Games, the studio behind the digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game Frosthaven, has detailed the difficulties of translating Isaac Childres’ complex dungeon-crawler into a video game. Game director Hristo Petkov revealed his team spent three to six months learning the rules by playing full campaigns before development, consulting Childres directly. The adaptation entered…
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Yamazaki to direct original sci-fi film Nue for 20th Century
Japanese director Takashi Yamazaki, whose 2023 hit Godzilla Minus One won an Academy Award for visual effects, is set to direct an original science-fiction film titled Nue for 20th Century Studios in partnership with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free banner. The project marks another step in Yamazaki’s move into Hollywood and is described as a long-held…
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Round Up: Ridiculously Positive Dawnwalker Previews Claim It’s a Game of the Year Candidate
A fresh wave of hands-on previews for The Blood of Dawnwalker, the RPG led by former CD Projekt Red developers, has gone live and the reaction is overwhelmingly positive, with several outlets branding it a genuine Game of the Year candidate. This matters because expectations for the game, while cautiously high, had not necessarily anticipated…
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U2 Get Drenched, Tap Into Classic, Soaring Sound in Video For Funky ‘Street of Dreams’ Single
U2 have made a surprise return with “Street of Dreams”, a soaring new single released without warning on Tuesday 7 July, marking the first taste of their forthcoming studio album — their first full LP since 2017’s Songs of Experience. The track and its accompanying video consciously revisit the band’s late-1980s and early-1990s peak, signalling…
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Bigger seats given go-ahead at historic Sheffield theatre – thestar.co.uk
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Emmy Nominations: TV Academy To Reveal Late-Night & Reality Categories Early, Again
The Television Academy has confirmed that, for the second year running, it will unveil the Emmy nominations for the late-night and reality categories earlier than the rest of the field. The nominees for Outstanding Variety Series and Outstanding Reality Competition Program will be announced on NBC’s Today between 4:45am and 5:20am PT, ahead of the…
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Sarajevo Film Festival Launches New Award, Prix Cineplexx, With the Winner Chosen by the Festival Audience
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced a new prize, the Prix Cineplexx, which will be handed out for the first time at its 32nd edition, running from 14 to 21 August 2026. The award recognises the best film in the festival’s Open Air Premiere programme and, unusually, is decided by the festival audience rather than…
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Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others
Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.
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November Girl – “Earthly Form”
In 2024, I included November Girl’s awesome track “Yesterday” on my impeccable list of my favorite songs from that year. That came from her incredible Heart Prayer EP, and now the severely underrated shoegaze artist is back with a compelling, ’90s-indebted anthem called “Earthly Form.” The post November Girl – “Earthly Form” appeared first on…
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Free Byrd casts Dwayne Johnson as stuntman concealing dementia diagnosis
Dwayne Johnson is set to star in and produce “Free Byrd”, a new action-drama from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s production company Artists Equity. He plays a Las Vegas motorcycle stuntman who hides his dementia diagnosis from everyone, including his mechanic brother, while risking everything on one final jump. The project pairs the box-office star…