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“We’ve got to reject the idea that is just something that’s going to happen to us and we can’t say anything about it,” said SAG-AFTRA national executive director, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland at the beginning of a panel focusing on AI and entertainment. “I think it definitely could, the question is whether we’re going to let that happen.”Melissa McCarthy’s Performance on the Iconic Disney Villain | io9 InterviewVariety reports that Crabtree-Ireland joined voice actors at an intimate panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which spoke…

Image: BioWare/NetflixEver since 2009, BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise has managed to carve out its own space in the fantasy genre. As much as the RPG series cribs from the classics to inform its own universe, there’s a unique flair that gives it an identity all its own. Even though the series has been, game wise, on ice since Dragon Age Inquisition was put to rest with 2015's “Trespasser” expansion, the demand for the franchise to return hasn’t really wavered in any meaningful way.As Dragon Age: Dreadwolf seems primed to…

Screenshot: NetflixThe world of Dragon Age is often rocked by monstrous invasions, magical and theistic conflicts, and other life-alteringevents. While the stakes seem high for it, it looks like the new animated series Absolution is going to take a leaf out of the pages of the excellent Dragon Age II, and do something a little smaller.In a new trailer released today, Netflix gave us our first proper good look at Dragon Age: Absolution. Set during an unknown point in the saga’s timeline, Absolution takes views into the…

Image: Guerrilla GamesEarlier in the summer, news broke that Sony was going to bring its sci-fi RPG franchise Horizon Zero Dawn to the small screen via a Netflix adaptation. Watching post-apocalyptic humans battle big-ass robot animals sounds like something that could work as both a game and a TV concept, and Sony’s eager to test that theory. No creative staff was unveiled at the time, but thanks to some news earlier in the week, we know who’ll be running the show on this...well, show.Specifically, Deadline reports that…