Blogging Roundup: 1 September 2023 to 30 April 2024

 

The Wertzone

News

• AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER sequel film gets voice cast
• HBO casts Dunk & Egg for A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS
• MACROSS and ROBOTECH to join Disney+, with some caveats
• AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER renewed for two more seasons at Netflix
• Marvel changing plans to recapture the zeitgeist
• Marvel casts the Fantastic Four
• Concept art for abandoned ROBOTECH movie emerges
• New DEUS EX game cancelled
• Netflix releases trailer and release date for AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
• BABYLON 5 reboot still in development, streaming services showing interest
• Marvel finally, officially canonises the Netlix Marvel-verse
• Keanu Reeves and China Mieville to collaborate on new novel
• Amazon and Games Workshop sign agreement to develop WARHAMMER 40,000 projects for the screen
• GOOD OMENS renewed for third and final season at Amazon
• MURDERBOT DIARIES TV series greenlit at Apple+
• OTHERLAND TV series in development
• Rockstar unveils first trailer for GRAND THEFT AUTO VI
• HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2 trailer released
• FALLOUT TV show gets its first trailer
• HOMEWORLD 3 gets March 2024 release date
• FURIOSA trailer arrives
• Plot details and pictures from the FALLOUT TV series
• DOCTOR WHO celebrates its 60th anniversary
• BioWare unveil teaser for fifth MASS EFFECT game
• DOCTOR WHO's first Dalek story gets major revamp for 60th anniversary
• BBC and Disney+ confirm DOCTOR WHO airdates
• FALLOUT TV series gets airdate
• Ultra-expensive video game SQUADRON 42 becomes feature-complete, moves towards release
• Entire (existing) run of DOCTOR WHO to be available on BBC iPlayer
• CYBERPUNK 2077 live-action project in the planning stages
• Rumour: Netflix interested in developing a BALDUR'S GATE adaptation
• New DOCTOR WHO 60th anniversary specials trailer unveiled
• Rumour: Bethesda were planning OBLIVION & FALLOUT 3 remasters back in 2020, along with a possible DISHONORED 3
• MECHWARRIOR 5: CLANS announced
• Steam turns 20 years old
• Rumour: THE EXPANSE's Shohreh Aghdashloo cast in THE WHEEL OF TIME

Reviews

• Fallout: Season 1
• Ciaphas Cain: The Greater Good & Old Soldiers Never Die by Sandy Mitchell
• Dune: Part Two
• Halo: Season 2
• Ciaphas Cain: The Last Ditch by Sandy Mitchell
• Starfield
• The Last of Us: Part I
• For All Mankind: Season 4
• Ciaphas Cain: The Emperor's Finest by Sandy Mitchell
• Blade of Dream by Daniel Abraham
• The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
• Baldur's Gate III
• Alan Wake II
• Alan Wake Remastered
• One Piece: Season 1
• Secret Invasion

Articles

• Franchise Familiariser: Fallout (2024 Edition)
• RIP Vernor Vinge
• RIP James M. Ward
• RIP Christopher Priest
• Happy 50th Birthday to DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, and the tabletop roleplaying genre
• Franchise Familiariser: BattleTech (2024 Update)
• RIP Howard Waldrop
• The SFF All-Time Sales List (2024 Edition)
• RIP Tracy Torme, STAR TREK writer and SLIDERS co-creator
• RIP Jennell Jaquays, D&D designer and artist and video game designer
• RIP Bryan Ansell, WARHAMMER legend
• RIP James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne
• RIP Andre Braugher
• Happy 20th Birthday to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2.0)
• RIP Michael Gambon
• RIP David McCallum

Atlas of Ice and Fire

• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 05: The Second and Third Crown Wars
• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 04: The First Crown War
• Fallout Maps (Revised 2024)
• Forgotten Realms: A New World Map of Toril (2023)
• Forgotten Realms: Resting Places of the Netherese Enclaves

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