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Screenshot: Complex Games Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhuntershave issued a statement to frustrated players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams. Via PC Gamerwhile Complex probably thought they were running a fairly standard (by 2022 … Read More “40K Game Developers Criticized Over Ridiculous Twitch Drops” »
The tasteful (yet lavish) covers. Image: ©Alan Lee for the Folio Society’s edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The three books of the trilogy will be quarter-bound in leather, with cloth sides featuring new illustrations by Alan Lee, the English artist who did conception art for Peter Jackson’s movie adaptation, and who … Read More “Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien Special Folio Society Book Set” »
Hawkeye with episodes directed by Bert and BertieScreenshot: Disney+ While there are a lot of things Disney needs to do right now to truly support its creators and authentically let them represent audiences, its strides in women-led entertainment have helped the studio evolve and grow on Disney+. Here you can watch modern classics like the … Read More “Women’s History Month Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming List” »
Things are gonna get downright wormy.Image: Warner Bros. Rob Zombie’s Munsters remake has cast a horror icon. Karl Urban teases even more to come from The Boys. Plus, the CW details what’s coming on Superman & Lois, Legacies, Charmed, The Flash, and more. And get a new look at what’s coming on Outlander. To me, … Read More “Denis Villeneuve Wants a Dune Messiah Movie After Part Two” »
Omar Sy as master thief Assane DiopImage: Netflix With no absence of irony, the set of Netflix’s Lupin has been the target of a heist. It’s now the second Netflix production hit within a week. The day after The Crown’s jewels were stolen during filming, Lupin was held up by 20 masked thieves who took … Read More “Netflix’s Lupin set robbed just one day after The Crown robbery” »
Gillian Anderson in The CrownImage: Netflix Netflix’s The Crown, which is currently filming its fifth season, was the target of a heist earlier this week. The thieves reportedly made off with stolen items worth around $200,000 including candelabras, a replica of a fabergé egg, and religious icons. The sticky-fingered thieves broke into three prop vans … Read More “A heist has gone down on the set of Netflix’s The Crown” »
The SCP Foundation—The grassroots, collaborative, creepypasta-adjacent writing project that largely inspired 2019 third-person shooter Control—Recently removed the image associated with its first and most popular entry, prompting artists to reimagine the monster at the center of one of the internet’s favorite horror stories. The wiki that hosts the SCP Foundation is essentially a shared universe … Read More “Internet Horror Legend SCP-173 Sees Incredible Reinvention” »
What does Baron Harkonnen sound like? Someone had to figure it out.Image: Warner Bros. Of all the people working on a film, the sound team is maybe the most invisible. If they do their job right, everything you hear is perfectly acceptable and natural. You rarely think about the work that goes into layering in … Read More “Dune Denis Villeneuve Epic Movie Sound Design Video” »
The craft worlds are ready to strike back.Screenshot: Play workshop If there’s one thing that keeps the Games Workshop moving, it’s the new range of shiny model sets for it Warhammer table games that make fans toot, ahhing and throws out a lot of money on small plastic warriors. But their latest releases are going … Read More “Games Workshop’s new Eldar models are justice for the space elves” »
Screenshot: The Simpsons Earlier today a group calling themselves Spice DAO tweeted that they were the proud owners of an original Jodorowsky’s Dune book, the compendium of concept art and notes that comprised filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s doomed attempts to get a Dune movie made in the 1970s. Spending vastly more than it’s worth, all in … Read More “Crypto Losers Buy Copy Of Jodorowsky’s Dune, Play Themselves” »