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Image: Prime VideoAdapting any well-known property is always going to be a big feat, especially when it comes to video games. It’s one thing to adapt a comic or TV show, it’s another thing to adapt a series of games, which come with a greater degree of self-expression. You can please some fans, but you can’t please all of the fans, as we’ve seen with basically every game-to-TV/film adaptation within the last five years.Making the Freddy Fazbear Pizza Band Come to Life for Five Nights at Freddy’sTalking to T3, Westworld…

Screenshot: Prime VideoAmazon’s new Fallout show is the latest in the companies’ big, splashy adaptation plans—and it really wants you to know it’s taking the retro aesthetic and charm of the classic video game series to heart, beneath its pulsing, murkily irradiated post-apocalypse.Making the Freddy Fazbear Pizza Band Come to Life for Five Nights at Freddy’sToday Amazon released a new trailer for Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s take on the beloved Interplay/Bethesda RPG games. The show, following in the footsteps of those…

Image: Wizards of the CoastThis is shaping up to be a huge year for Magic: The Gathering, and over the weekend Wizards of the Coast took to Chicago for MagicCon, revealing a look at a ton of new cards on the horizon—including big crossovers like Fallout and Assassin’s Creed, and brand new worlds in the Magic multiverse. The Fallout set, due out in a few weeks, served as the main bulk of attention as Wizards unveiled cards from across the four Commander decks that are the basis for the set, pulling on not just the more…

Image: LionsgateLionsgate has been trying to get a Borderlands movie off the ground since 2015, with Eli Roth becoming attached to the project in 2020. After a longer-than-expected wait and a series of reshoots with Tim Miller at the helm, the movie is a real thing, and it’s coming in August. The first trailer, however, is here now:Borderlands (2024) Official Trailer - Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack BlackThe Borderlands games concern a rotating quartet of Vault Hunters who show up on the planet Pandora looking to find a…

Image: Square EnixBefore there was a PlayStation 4 remake that blew the doors off its own canon, Final Fantasy VII lived on through various spinoffs that expanded the world of the classic RPG. One of those was Advent Children, the 2005 CG film which followed on from the events of the original game. If you’ve never seen it, or it’s been forever since you have, you’re in luck—it’s getting a brief return to theaters next year.How Rahul Kohli Got His Own Dragon Ishin Trooper CardEarlier in the week, Square Enix revealed it…

OD - The Game Awards 2023 Teaser Trailer - 4KPerpetual Game Awards fave Hideo Kojima revealed his next game coming exclusively to Xbox, OD, a horror game intended to show players what it’s like to overdose on fear itself. No real details were revealed, but Kojima is working with director Jordan Peele on the game, which will star characters played by Sophia Lillis, Hunter Schaeffer, and Udo Kier. OD - The Game Awards 2023 Teaser Trailer - 4KPerpetual Game Awards fave Hideo Kojima revealed his next game coming…

Yesterday, Prime Video gave viewers a first full look at its upcoming Fallout show. Based on the RPG franchise by Interplay and Bethesda, the series definitely looks like it belongs with the actual games, and that wasn’t just the mission statement—for all intents and purposes, this is their idea of Fallout 5.“Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedShowrunner Graham Wagner basically said as such during a roundtable interview at CCXP. In deciding to treat this as “just another installation” of the franchise,…

Image: Prime VideoInterplay’s (and later Bethesda’s) Fallout games have always held a special place in the hearts of players. Waits between mainline installments have only grown longer, and there may be plenty of other post-apocalyptic worlds, but folks love the RPG series for its immersive world and black sense of humor. Fallout scratches a particular itch, which made it all the more interesting when Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy revealed they were going to be adapting the series for Prime Video.“Even AI…