Blog Archive: December 2021

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Nukklear Dune

German developer Nukklear have announced a partnership with Funcom on the upcoming multiplayer surival game, Dune.

There aren't any substantial new details here but we might infer that the popularity of this year's Dune film has encouraged Funcom, or new owners Tencent, to upscale their vision for this project.

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Stinker Dune

David Lynch's 1984 Dune is widely regarded as a bit of a stinker and even Lynch himself disowns it citing interference from above. It won Worst Picture in the 7th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.

In an interview with Games Radar, Ridley Scott reveals that it was stink which caused him to leave that Dune during pre-production.

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Raised By Wolves Teaser

HBO have released a teaser for season 2 of Raised by Wolves, along with its HBO Max (which isn't available in Australia) release date, February 3.

It's not an easy one to interpret.

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San Diego Comic-Con

The Oz Comic-Con Homegrown makes its return today at the Sydney Showground. Hopefully everyone is having a great time and our own people who are in attendance will have lots talk about on this week's show.

In the meantime to satisfy your comic-con cravings you can take a look at one of its international sister events, the San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition which like ours, returned last week in a somewhat curtailed format this year because of COVID.

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Paramount Reach Out

After Star Trek: Discovery unexpectedly vanished from Netflix recently just before season 4 was due to release, many viewers might have checked the Paramount+ listings in Australia, seen that Discovery wasn't there, and not thought to check again.

Then promptly proceeded to pirate it.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Watch

CD Projekt Red have pulled a surprise rabbit out of their hat - a limited edition Cyberpunk 2077 (700) $500 (US) / $713 (OZ) watch.

Approaching the first anniversary of their launch and also nearing Christmas, we might have predicted some kind of update or one of their promised small DLC.

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Keanu and Carrie Interview

Entertainment Weekly have interviewed Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss and a few of the other main Matrix folk.

Following the written article they released (so far) 3 short videos (one, two, three) of Keanu and Carrie-Anne interview.

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The Matrix Deja Vu Trailer

Warner Bros. have released a new trailer for The Matrix Resurrections titled Deja Vu.

Again there also appears to be some additional footage released in international material, which might be related.

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Sci-Fi Slot Machines

Scified has published an unusual piece on sci-fi franchises and gambling.

Throughout are statements which make it clear that they're knowledgeable about and pro gambling.

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Halo Campaign Trailer

Microsoft surprised everyone with an early launch of the multiplayer component of Halo Infinite a few weeks ago.

Now they've released the launch trailer for the upcoming single-player component.

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