Blogging Roundup: 1 June to 1 September 2025

News

• Updated sales figures for Brandon Sanderson and Sarah J. Maas revealed
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV announced
• First trailer for Fallout Season 2 revealed
• Original planned author of the Dragonlance Chronicles not announced for the very first time (debunked)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer sequel legacy show announces main cast
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 confirmed to be in production
• Mel Brooks to return with Spaceballs 2
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to end with shorter fifth season
• Trailer for Alien: Earth released
• Owlcat developing Expanse video game inspired by Mass Effect
• Mass Effect TV series gains showrunner, moving forwards
• Joe Abercrombie's The Devils optioned by James Cameron

Reviews

• Doctor Who: Season 15
• Doctor Who: Season 14
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Foundation: Season 2
• Doctor Who: Season 13
• Doctor Who: Season 12
• Doctor Who: Season 11
• Doctor Who: Season 10
• This is Free Trader Beowulf: A System History of Traveller by Shannon Appelcline
• Doctor Who: Season 9
• Doctor Who: Season 8
• Doctor Who: Season 7
• Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay
• Doctor Who: Series 15 (Season 41)
• The Alters
• Doctor Who: Series 14 (Season 40)
• The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Doctor Who: Series 13 (Season 39) - Flux

Articles

• Where to Start: Traveller Buyer's Guide
• Franchise Familiariser: Traveller
• RIP Jim Shooter
• Where to Start with Classic Doctor Who?

 

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Blogging Roundup: 1 March to 1 June 2025

 

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News

• Doctor Who springs shocking season cliffhanger
• Wheel of Time TV series cancelled after three seasons
• JV Jones answering fan questions on Reddit tomorrow
• Yellowjackets renewed for Season 4
• Updated version of original STALKER trilogy to be released next week
• Grand Theft Auto VI delayed to May 2026, as was foretold in the ancient texts
• Philip Pullman's final Book of Dust novel, The Rose Field, will be released this October
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered announced and released
• Bethesda to announce The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered tomorrow
• Star Wars: Zero Company announced
• Mighty board game series Command & Colors licences Star Wars
• Iconic fantasy cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad's maps are looking for a new home
• No Life Forsaken, the new Malazan novel by Steven Erikson, gets release date
• First trailer for Murderbot released
• Doctor Who celebrates 20th anniversary of its revival
• Terry Brooks announces semi-retirement from writing
• JV Jones completes Endlords, the penultimate Sword of Shadows novel

Reviews

• Andor: Season 2
• Doctor Who: Series 12 (Season 38)
• The Rose in Darkness by Danie Ware
• The Last of Us Part II
• Atomfall
• Tactical Breach Wizards
• A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
• Avowed
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Articles

• RIP Peter David
• RIP Jean Marsh

Atlas of Ice and Fire

• Iconic fantasy cartographer Karen Wynn Fonstad’s maps are looking for a new home

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Blogging Roundup: 1 December 2024 to 1 March 2025

 

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News

• SKYBLIVION developers re-commit to 2025 release
• Warner Brothers shuts down iconic studio Monolith Productions
• Akiva Goldsman developing three Irwin Allen reboots for television
• Amazon resurrects CULTURE TV project, based on the Iain M. Banks novels
• Netflix and Wizards of the Coast put FORGOTTEN REALMS TV series into development
• BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER legacy sequel series in development
• Netflix's THE SANDMAN to end with Season 2
• Rebecca Yarros sells 12 million copies of her EMPYREAN series in under two years
• New MURDERBOT editions criticised for poor quality
• Further allegations against Neil Gaiman emerge
• Martha Wells's MURDERBOT DIARIES series gets omnibus editions
• CD Projet Red formally announces THE WITCHER IV
• Glenn Cook to publish four new BLACK COMPANY novels
• Games Workshop & Amazon agree to proceed with a WARHAMMER 40,000 screen project

Reviews

• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
• Age of Empires II Definitive Edition Chronicles: Battle for Greece
• Exodus: The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
• System Collapse by Martha Wells
• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Wind & Truth by Brandon Sanderson
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
• Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier
• The History of the World Begins in Ice by Kate Elliott
• Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1

Articles

• RIP Michelle Trachtenberg
• RIP Viktor Antonov
• RIP Chris Moore
• RIP David Lynch
• The Longest SFF Novels of All Time (2025 update)

Atlas of Ice and Fire

• Pathfinder: A World Map of Golarion

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Blogging Roundup: 1 September to 1 December 2024

 

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News

• Battlestar Galactica, Skyrim & Fallout: New Vegas actor Michael Hogan makes first convention appearance since serious injury
• I'm on BlueSky!
• Subnautica 2 gets a full trailer

Reviews

• The Walking Dead: Season 8
• The Walking Dead: Season 7
• Starfield: Shattered Space
• MechWarrior 5: Clans
• Slayers & Vampires: The Oral History of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel by Edward Gross & Mark A. Altman
• Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
• Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
• So Say We All: The Oral History of Battlestar Galactica by Mark A. Altman & Edward Gross

Articles

• Half-Life 2 turns twenty years old
• RIP Tony Todd
• 15 years ago (somehow) I visited Belfast whilst they were filming the Game of Thrones pilot
• RIP Jeri Taylor
• Franchise Familiariser: Cyberpunk 2077 / Red / Edgerunners (2024 Edition)
• Happy 20th Anniversary to Lost
• A Timeline of Battlestar Galactica
• RIP James Darren

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Blogging Roundup: 1 May to 1 September 2024

 

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News

• Brandon Sanderson achieves another Kickstarter success
• New Guy Gavriel Kay novel confirmed for 2025
• Warner Brothers releases trailer for LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM
• BLAKE'S 7 to get Blu-Ray release with new model vfx
• Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to star onstage in WAITING FOR GODOT
• NBC and Peacock drop BATTLESTAR GALACTICA reboot reboot plans
• Further allegations against Neil Gaiman emerge
• New DOCTOR WHO spinoff mini-series announced
• Robert Downey Jr., the Russo Brothers and Stephen McFeely to return to the MCU in AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY
• Steven Erikson confirms his Malazan WITNESS trilogy is now a quartet
• Paramount+ cancels HALO TV series
• The time Ronald D. Moore almost adapted Anne McCaffrey's DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN for television
• Deadline reports on DOCTOR WHO's fortunes for the BBC and Disney+
• Marvel tries to lure the Russo Brothers back to the fold
• Neil Gaiman accused of sexual assault by two women
• A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS castmembers announced
• Electronic Arts announce release window for new DRAGON AGE game
• China Mieville completes 1,000-page new novel
• RED DWARF to return (again)
• HOUSE OF THE DRAGON and RINGS OF POWER both get second season trailers
• Warner Brothers announce new LORD OF THE RINGS film for 2026

Reviews

• Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
• Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock - Complete Edition
• Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut
• Horizon Forbidden West
• Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan & Cliff Chiang
• Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
• Homeworld 3

Articles

• RIP Donald Sutherland
• RIP William Russell
• Franchise Familiariser: Homeworld
• RIP Bernard Hill

Atlas of Ice and Fire

• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 08: The Rise of Imaskar, Coramshan and Jhaamdath
• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 07: The Elven Reconstruction and the Era of Skyfire
• Stellar Cartography: Homeworld (revisited)
• Historical Maps of the Forgotten Realms 06: The Fourth and Fifth Crown Wars

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Blogging Roundup: 1 September 2023 to 30 April 2024

 

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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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Blogging Roundup: 1 May to 31 August 2023

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News

DESCENT, FREESPACE, RED FACTION and SAINT'S ROW developers Volition are shut down for good

SHADOW TACTICS developers call time on their company

HOMEWORLD 3 gets new trailer

BALDUR'S GATE 3 becomes one of the most popular Steam games ever

BABYLON 5 to get long-requested Blu-Ray release

New trailer for DUNE: PART TWO released

Netflix offers a first look at its take on AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, coming in 2024

BABYLON 5 animated movie gets a trailer

Sales of SKYRIM pass 60 million copies

Bethesda Game Studios drop a deep look at STARFIELD

STAR WARS: OUTLAWS announced

CYBERPUNK 2077: PHANTOM LIBERTY gets release date and expanded trailer

Obsidian Entertainment lift the lid on their new fantasy RPG, AVOWED

Joe Abercrombie's BEST SERVED COLD headed to the screen with Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Miller attached

Sales of THE WITCHER 3 pass 50 million

WHEEL OF TIME (finally) crosses 100 million sales

WHEEL OF TIME Season 2 finally gets an airdate

WARLORD CHRONICLES TV series to air in August

Final WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW novel gets a release date

DOCTOR WHO gets 60th anniversary episode titles and new trailer

BABYLON 5: THE ROAD HOME gets cast list and release window

DUNE: PART TWO unveils first trailer

Surprise BABYLON 5 animated movie announced

Reviews

Film: Babylon 5: The Road Home

TV: From: Season 1

Video Game: Grounded

Book: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

Book: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

TV: Star Trek: The Original Series

TV: Corporate: Seasons 1-3

TV: The Last of Us: Season 1

TV: Atlanta: Season 4

Film: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

TV: Star Trek: Prodigy - Season 1

Articles

RIP Manny Coto

Total War Franchise Familiariser (revised)

RIP Ray Stevenson

Atlas of Ice and Fire

Lost Maps: The Beach Camp

Lost Maps: Introduction