Blogging Roundup: 1 January to 30 April 2022

 

The Wertzone

News

• Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel film gets 2025 release date 
• HBO greenlights second Game of Thrones spin-off show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 
• Lucasfilm and Disney announce three new Star Wars films 
• First trailer for Star Wars: Ahsoka name-drops Heir to the Empire, introduces Rebels cast to live action 
• HBO eyeing a Game of Thrones movie and TV series about Aegon the Conqueror 
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy greenlit at Paramount+ 
• RUMOUR: Babylon 5 reboot dead at CW, still in development at Warner Brothers 
• House of the Dragon to get shorter seasons moving forwards 
• Star Trek shows get new seasons and airdates 
• Game of Thrones veteran to play iconic Forgotten Realms villain in D&D movie 
• Red Dwarf rights split between original creators 
• Starfield acquires (probably) final release date 
• New Alien movie starts shooting next week 
• Star Trek: Discovery to end with fifth season in 2024 
• Embracer Group strikes new deal with Warner Brothers to make new Lord of the Rings movies 
• Babylon 5 celebrates its 30th anniversary 
• The CW will not develop any pilots for 2023-24, likely ending Babylon 5 reboot development 
• The Simpsons renewed for two more episodes, to bring it to over 800 episodes aired 
• The Last of Us renewed for a second season at HBO 
• Wizards of the Coast scrap plans to revamp the OGL and moves D&D to a Creative Commons licence 
• New Dungeons & Dragons rules to use a Creative Commons licence 
• Stephen Colbert to develop Chronicles of Amber TV series 
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remake targets 2025 release date 
• New MechWarrior video game in development 
• Scott Lynch releases excerpt from a new Locke Lamora story 
• Tabletop RPG industry in uproar over leaked changes to the Open Game Licence 
• Dungeons & Dragons TV series greenlit for Paramount+ 
• BattleTech reclaims its place as one of the biggest SFF wargames in the world 

Reviews

• TV: Star Trek: Picard, Season 3 
• Video Game: Far Cry 6 
• Film: Avatar: The Way of Water 
• TV: Shadow and Bone, Season 2 
• Film: Dungeons and Dragons - Honor Among Thieves 
• TV: Reservation Dogs, Season 2 
• TV: Atlanta, Season 3 
• Video Game: Death Stranding (Director's Cut) 
• TV: Halo, Season 1 

Articles

• RIP Klaus Teuber, the creator of Catan 
• RIP Eric Brown 
• RIP Lance Reddick 

Atlas of Ice and Fire

• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 03: The First Flowering 
• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 02: The Dawn Age 
• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 01: The Days of Thunder 

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