Blog Archive: February 2022

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US Paramount Bundling

Paramount+ and Showtime are both owned by the same parent company but in the US are separate services. There they've announced a combined $12 a month bundle or $15 without advertisements.

Here in Australia, Showtime content had been with Stan but moved across to Paramount+ after that service launched.

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Broadcast Trailer

We now have an official trailer for what looks like a B'ish grade sci-fi drama, Broadcast.

Production quality wise the trailer looks fine but story-wise it's hitting a sour note for us.

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New Smilegate Universe

Train to Busan and Hellbound director Yeon Sang-ho will create a new fictional universe with South Korean gaming company Smilegate who are known for online shooter Crossfire and just recently released in the west, free-to-play online roleplaying game Lost Ark.

They plan to make games, films, TV series and webtoons.

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Netflix BioShock

No that's not what happens if you try to insert a finger into one of your TV screen ports while Netflix is running.

BioShock is popular retrofuturistic game series and their owners 2K are partnering with Netflix to produce a film.

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Star Trek 4 Negotiations

During a Parmount Investors Day presentation, J. J. Abrams announced that they are planning to enter negotiations with the original Enterprise cast of the reboot films.

That's Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg. Anton Yelchin who played Checkov died in 2016.

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Ions: Best Character

Voting continues for the Ion Sci-Fi Screen Awards (the Ions) and this week the category is Best Character, which is unique to the Ions.

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Ixion Gameplay Trailer

Kasedo Games have released a gameplay trailer for their novel upcoming space station city builder / survival / exploration game called Ixion.

It's one we've had our eye for on for a while and this trailer does a great job of demonstrating the premise.

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Destiny 2 Trailer

Ahead of the expansion itself, Bungie have released their launch trailer for Destiny 2's The Witch Queen.

It has flash, sizzle, music with a great beat and no, no, no that's absolutely not a "lightsaber" towards the end.

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SWTOR Disorder

Star Wars the Old Republic's expansion Legacy of the Sith launched today and to accompany it they produced an excellent new cinematic trailer titled Disorder.

Their cinematic trailers have always impressed. It's a gorgeous scene which captures the spirit and aesthetic of the films perfectly.

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CP2077 Version 1.5

Making good on yesterday's promise of news today, CD Projekt Red today released long anticipated version 1.5 of Cyberpunk 2077. Full patch notes and a trailer are also available.

These notes are relatively short and worth a read if you play but we'll look at some of the major changes.

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