Tag: Tv
News Shogun, The Boys Director Joins God of War TV Series as Casting Gets Underway
Things are finally moving
Work on Amazon's God of War TV adaptation is finally getting rolling, and it's attracted an award-winning director. According to a report from Deadline, Frederick E.O. Toye has been hired to direct the first two episodes of the TV series, which is set to follow the Norse mythology storyline from the more recent God of War...
News Far Cry TV Series Officially Announced, from Creators of Fargo and Always Sunny
Quite the combo
Ubisoft and FX have announced a TV adaptation of the popular open world shooter series, Far Cry. The official social channels for the franchise recently posted about the news, calling the TV show an anthology series: As reported by Variety, the show comes from Noah Hawley and Rob Mac (formerly McElhenney); the former is credited...
News Twisted Metal Renewed for Season 3 and Gets New Showrunner
David Reed joins for third season
The TV adaptation of classic PlayStation series Twisted Metal has been renewed for a third season by Peacock, Variety reports. The outlet also states David Reed will be joining as showrunner, replacing Michael Jonathon Smith. Variety claims Reed will join as showrunner and executive producer for the third season of...
News The Legend of Lara Croft Continues in Season 2 of Netflix's Tomb Raider Series
Watch the trailer now
Netflix has shared a first trailer for the second season of its animated series, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. Due to kick off on 11th December, you can watch the trailer right here: Season 2 sees Lara (Hayley Atwell) tasked with tracking down some ancient artefacts before they can fall into the wrong hands. It's...
News Fallout Season 2 Heads to New Vegas in New Trailer, Debuts 17th December
The house always wins
Bethesda and Amazon Prime have shared the first proper trailer for season two of Fallout, which debuts on the platform from 17th December 2025. Check it out above. As was teased at the end of the first season, New Vegas forms part of the setting for the next batch of episodes, as the world deals with the fallout of last year's...
News Crash Bandicoot Set to Spin into New Netflix Animated Adaptation
Don't crash out
Crash Bandicoot is getting his very own Netflix animated adaptation, with the studio behind Sonic Prime at the helm. Word comes courtesy of streaming site What’s on Netflix, which claims WildBrain Studio has taken up the mantle of bringing the former PlayStation mascot to the small screen. It’ll follow a series of other...
News Remember the Indie Game Furi? Well, It's Getting a Live Action Series, and It Looks Bad
One to skip, perhaps
The boss rush bullet hell action game Furi from French studio The Game Bakers is a memorable 2016 release for the PS4. Such was its popularity, it was later even ported to the PS5. And now it’s getting a miniseries starring Barty Shepherd and Yanick Ghanty, releasing straight to streaming from 8th November. We’ll be...
News The Studio Behind Absolum's Gorgeous Art Is Now Producing an Animated TV Adaptation
Supamonks go all-in on Absolum
Publisher Dotemu and studios Guard Crush Games and Supamonks are soon to release Absolum, the roguelite beat-'em-up with a great hand-drawn style. The latter team is responsible for that art direction as well as the game's animation, and it's always lookd impressive in trailers. Well, we hope you aren't tired of it,...
Doesn't know who's playing the role
Earlier in the week, Christopher Judge, who portrays Kratos in the Norse God of War games, was rumoured to be in talks to reprise the part in Amazon Prime's live action TV adaptation. He effectively debunked this on social media, garnering a lot of attention in the process; his X post has been viewed over 11...
News Kratos Actor Christopher Judge Clueless About Rumours He'll Reprise His Role in TV Show
"I am?"
Filming for God of War’s live action adaptation will supposedly get underway early next year, but we still haven’t heard a peep about the project’s casting plans. We know Battlestar Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore is on deck as showrunner, with a writing room that includes various scribes from his Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. But...
News Instead of a Splinter Cell Game, What About a Netflix Anime?
Deathwatch debuts on 14th October
There's a remake of the original Splinter Cell game in development at Ubisoft, but almost four years after its reveal, who knows if you'll ever actually get to play it. So, instead, how about a Splinter Cell anime? Still determined to have Sam Fisher appear in anything but a new game, Ubisoft (alongside Sun...
News The End of the F***ing World's Scribe Signed for Live Action Life Is Strange TV Show
Back to Arcadia Bay
Life Is Strange is the latest video game to be getting a live action adaptation, and we can’t think of a better writer than The End of the F***ing World’s Charlie Covell. The British dark comedy deals with the “relationship” between two teenage tearaways, as one runs away from home and the other tries to engineer...
News Amazon's God of War TV Adaptation to Start Filming in Six Months
The search for Kratos is well underway
Amazon won’t have long to find its Kratos, as filming on God of War’s TV adaptation is slated to get underway in March 2026. That’s according to “sources” speaking with TV and comics site Nexus Point News, who claim principal photography is set to start in Vancouver next year. Battlestar...
News Tomb Raider's Anime Will Wrap Up with Season 2, Due Out on Netflix in December
Golly
Netflix will wrap up its likeable anime adaptation of Tomb Raider with its previously revealed Season 2, which will air from 11th December, according to Variety. The show, officially named
News Game of Thrones Star Announced as Lara Croft for Amazon's Tomb Raider TV Show
Sophie Turner gets the lead role
Game of Thrones and X-Men actor Sophie Turner has been confirmed for the role of Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider TV series from Amazon. The live-action show will begin production in January 2026, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge creating and writing it as well as sharing the executive producer role with Chad Hodge...
News Twisted Metal's Anticipated Second Season Debuts with Three Episodes
There'll be 12 episodes in total
Twisted Metal’s highly anticipated second season will start streaming on Peacock from tomorrow, 31st July. But the rollout will consist of three episodes at first, with the remaining nine spread out weekly through 28th August. We can confirm we’ve started watching the show, but as we only got access earlier this...
News God of War TV Series 'Honours' Norse Games, Teases Greek Saga
Kratos and Atreus confirmed as the focus
The upcoming TV show adaptation of the God of War franchise from Amazon has confirmed it's bringing the father and son story of Kratos and Atreus to the streaming service, where it looks to "honour" the Norse era games. As part of an interview with IGN, executive producer Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar...
News Mass Effect TV Series Being Handled by Fallout Production Team
Writer Daniel Casey reveals
The Fallout TV show from Amazon Prime is sharing its production team with the in-development Mass Effect TV series, it's been revealed. One of the biggest shows ever on the streaming service attracted overwhelmingly positive reviews upon its release last year, and now the Fallout production team — from a writing...
News Live-Action Assassin's Creed TV Show Still Happening, Netflix Green-Lights
Patino, Wiener to create and produce
A live-action TV series based on Assassin's Creed has received the green light from Netflix, and the streaming company will begin to set its plans for the show in motion. More than five years since it was reported Netflix had plans to adapt the Ubisoft open world franchise, multiple creative teams have...
News The Last of Us TV Show Team Split on One More Season or Two
No cure for final season plan
HBO still hasn’t decided whether it’ll conclude The Last of Us 2’s story in one season or two. Speaking with Variety, boss Casey Bloys said director Craig Mazin is “still working out whether it will be two more seasons or one more long season” that wraps up the plot. “I’m following Craig’s lead on...
News The Last of Us Season 2 Gets 16 Emmy Awards Nominations
Eight fewer than the first season
The second season of HBO's The Last of Us adaptation to TV has earned 16 nominations at this year's Emmy Awards. Despite a controversial final episode — especially for fans of the video game — the set of seven episodes impressed Television Academy voters enough to nominate the season 16 times. That's eight...
News Twisted Metal Shapes Up for Another Season of Sublimely Stupid Television
Car crash
The first season of Twisted Metal was an unexpectedly excellent adaptation of one of PlayStation’s oldest franchises. And the second season looks to be amping up the insanity. For those of you who watched the show, you’ll know that it ended on a cliff-hanger, with Anthony Mackie’s John Doe roped into the titular Twisted Metal...
News The Last of Us Season 2's Strangest Scene Was Cut from the Game
Taken out for "pacing purposes"
The online reaction to the final episode of The Last of Us season two has been particularly fierce, even from those who were originally loving the TV adaptation from HBO. With significant changes made to specific scenes and the tone of characters, it feels like the TV series has very much separated to become its own...
News HBO's The Last of Us Sees a Dramatic Decline in Season 2 Finale Viewers
But it was a holiday weekend
The finale to Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us was watched by half of the people who tuned in to watch the conclusion to Season 1. According to The Wrap, the closing episode attracted just 3.7 million cross-platform viewers, compared to the 8.2 million its predecessor achieved. However, there is a crucial caveat here:...
TV Show Review The Last Of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 7 - Great Game Makes for Okay TV
The writing is on the wall
The second season of HBO’s The Last of Us has come to an end, marking the supposed middle point of its retelling of Part 2’s story. It’s proven to be a far messier affair than what came before in season one, with plenty of highs, some real lows, and a cliffhanger ending that will likely shock any of those unfamiliar...
TV Show Review The Last Of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 6 - Robbing the Story of Its Genius
But I'd like to try
HBO’s The Last of Us is nearing the end of its second season, teeing up its finale with a crucial, emotional, and heartwarming episode. We have a feeling this will be a fan-favourite episode of the season, but for us it’s showcasing that showrunner Craig Mazin has robbed the story of its structural genius. This review...
News Fallout Season 2 Set for December, Season 3 Also Gets the Green Light
To the Mojave wasteland
Amazon Prime has announced the second season of its adaptation of the Fallout franchise will debut this December. In fact, it has so much confidence in the TV show that it's also confirmed it's already renewing for a third season after it. In a Variety article, it's revealed the second season "will pick up in the aftermath...
TV Show Review The Last of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 5 - A Chilling Callback to the Games
It's in the air
HBO’s The Last of Us continues its quest for revenge with the latest episode “Feel Her Love”. We’ve had some highs and lows with the show and this was a high for the most part, efficiently hitting some key moments, and smartly linking its lore back to the game. There will be story spoilers in this review. Having survived...
News Fallout TV Show Could Be Around for Another 5 Seasons
Season 2 filming now complete
It was recently announced that Amazon Prime has finished filming the second season of its Fallout TV adaptation, but even that may only really be the start of its plans for the show. One actor has suggested there's up to six seasons' worth of content coming. Speaking at a Comic-Con panel in Liverpool, England recently,...
News Just Like the Game, The Last of Us 2's TV Adaptation Is Getting Review Bombed
First time?
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us is getting review bombed. Currently, there’s a chasm between the show’s 95% Tomatometer rated by critics and the 42% Popcornmeter rated by viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. It doesn’t look massively dissimilar to the game’s Metacritic ratings: 93 from...
TV Show Review The Last of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 4 - The First Time the Show Surpasses the Game
Some highs and lows
Ellie and Dina venture into Seattle in the latest episode of HBO’s The Last of Us, delivering some of the standout moments of the series so far – along with some wobbly fan-favourite recreations. This review will contain some story spoilers. 'Day One' opens up with a flashback introducing Isaac, the elusive eventual leader...
TV Show Review The Last of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 3 - Setting the Stage for a Revenge Odyssey
What comes after
HBO’s The Last of Us deals with the aftermath of last week’s brutal events in its latest episode, setting the stage for a revenge-filled odyssey. While we’ve blown hot and cold on the show so far, we really appreciate this season’s slower pace, which is showcased most prominently in its latest episode, 'The Path'. This...
TV Show Review The Last of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 2 - More Birdie Than Hole in One
Let's go golfing!
Well, here we are, reliving one of the most traumatic and controversial moments in PlayStation history, albeit through the format of television. The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2, titled “Through The Valley”, upped the ante with an explosive episode that deviated wildly and stuck to the script faithfully. And we have to say, we...
News The Last of Us Is Only Getting More and More Popular
You can't stop this
The Last of Us is growing in popularity. This weekend, HBO debuted the first episode in the second season of its television adaptation, and viewers rose 10% over the original season’s premiere. According to Deadline, the episode managed 5.3 million same-day cross-platform viewers in the US, up from 4.7 million. It shows that...
TV Show Review The Last of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 1 - Structure Changes Keep Things Fresh
And so it begins
HBO’s The Last of Us is back and so begins the adaptation of Sony’s most divisive exclusive. While the first season had its deviations here or there, for the most part it was a fairly straight to the point adaptation. For us, this resulted in it feeling a bit like a highlight reel of our favourite game. This story is a different...
Guide Best TVs for PS5 in 2025
The top 4K TVs for PS5 and 8K TVs for PS5 Pro
What are the best 4K and 8K TVs for PS5 and PS5 Pro in 2025? Sony has ushered in the next stage of console gaming with PlayStation 5 and the upgraded PS5 Pro, bringing new technology that demands the right display to shine. No matter what television set you currently own, you’ll notice an immediate...
News Sounds Like Amazon's Tomb Raider TV Show in Jeopardy as It's Reported 'Dead'
Game over?
Amazon's big Tomb Raider TV adaptation is apparently in trouble. As reported by Daily Mail, the show, which picked up Phoebe Waller-Bridge as writer and is rumoured to star Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner, is "dead", according to the outlet's sources. The report says the show has been stuck in developme
News Netflix's Devil May Cry Has Been Such a Hit a Second Season Has Already Been Confirmed
Do what they Dante
There’s a meme making out like Netflix cancels everything after its first season, but Devil May Cry has performed well enough to get another run. The Netflix animated series, led by Adi Shankar – who, incidentally, appeared at a WWE event recently dressed as Dante – attracted an estimated 5.3 million views in one week...
News The Last of Us to Sponsor La Liga Side Athletic Club
Logo on shirts for match this Sunday
The high-flying Spanish football team Athletic Club will change its sponsor for one game this Sunday to that of The Last of Us, with the TV adaptation appearing across the front of the players' shirts. The Max branding will also feature on the sleeves for Athletic Club's league match against Rayo Vallecano on...
News HBO Renews The Last of Us for a Third Season
It's going through with this
TV streaming service HBO has confirmed it's renewed its adaptation of The Last of Us for a third season, as the second is about to debut this Sunday, 13th April 2025. The announcement was shared on Twitter with a little animation: Season two of The Last of Us, which looks to adapt at least some of The Last of Us 2,...
News You Too Can Wear Joel's Jacket from The Last of Us Season 2
The clothes off his back
HBO's second season of The Last of Us is very nearly upon us, and as the weather gets warmer, you'll be pleased to know that Joel's jacket isn't just a nice costume piece — it's a garment available at retail. Yes, if you want the Joel Miller look, you can buy and wear his exact jacket from the TV adaptation. Available...
Round Up The Last of Us 2's TV Show Reviews Aren't Quite a Hole in One for Sony, HBO
One fore the fans, perhaps
Reviews for the second season of HBO’s hit live action The Last of Us adaptation are starting to roll out, and while generally quite positive, critics are a little more mixed on this effort. Inspired by Naughty Dog’s critically acclaimed The Last of Us 2 game, this season once again sees Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey...
More interested in "emotional maturity"
Craig Mazin, showrunner on HBO's The Last of Us TV adaptation, has commented on concerns about Bella Ramsey's appearance in the upcoming Season 2. Ramsey (21) has a very youthful appearance, which worked rather well for playing a 14-year-old Ellie in The Last of Us Season 1. However, fans have been worried...
News Druckmann 'Excited and Curious' to See How The Last of Us HBO Audience Will React to Season 2
Shock and delight, but mostly shock
We can't help but feel a little apprehensive as we inch closer to the start of Season 2 of HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us. As we are now officially entering The Last of Us 2 territory, it's almost time for the much larger TV audience to discover one specific reason why that game was so controversially...
News Druckmann on The Last of Us HBO Story Outpacing the Games: 'I Leave Nothing on the Line'
We don't want another Game of Thrones situation
We didn't know how badly we wanted a third entry in The Last of Us franchise, one more harrowing adventure in Naughty Dog's bleak world, until director Neil Druckmann cast doubt on it ever happening. He's so busy adapting the series for HBO, not to mention overseeing Intergalactic: The Heretic...
News Amazon Bullish on God of War, Two Seasons Have Already Been Ordered
Where's the R1 button, boy?!
It seems it hasn't been exactly smooth sailing up the River Styx for Amazon's proposed TV adaptation of Sony's God of War IP, which was recently scrapped, starting over from scratch. Nevertheless, the colossal company remains (Cretan) bullish on the project and has already ordered two seasons, sight unseen. That's...
News The Last of Us Popularity Surges as Season 2 TV Trailer Breaks Records
158 million views in three days
HBO's bet on its TV adaptation of The Last of Us is truly starting to pay off now, as the new trailer for the show's second season is breaking company records. In the three days since its release, the official trailer has gained 158 million views across all platforms, making it the most-watched HBO and Max trailer...
News Devil May Cry's Netflix Anime Is Dividing Fans Big Time
This is your last resort
Devil May Cry is the next video game franchise to get an animation adaptation, following on from Tomb Raider last year. This one’s being produced by Korean team Studio Mir, the group behind the excellent X-Men ’97, so it has some real pedigree behind it. Capcom is also involved. But based on this launch trailer, ahead...
News Abby Actress Kaitlyn Dever Aware of Outsized Expectations for Role in HBO's The Last of Us
"I want to do this character justice"
Hollywood star Kaitlyn Dever knew what she was getting into when accepting the role of Abigail "Abby" Anderson, and would not be the first woman to receive abuse from unhinged "fans" for portraying the role. HBO is aware of the extreme toxicity in some parts of the video game community concerning the character,...
News This Trailer for HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 May Be An All-Time Great
Your body is still not ready
Holy heck has HBO nailed this trailer for The Last of Us Season 2! Due out on HBO Max from 13th April, this epic two-minute taster is filled with familiar scenes from the game – and a couple of new ones, too. Series creator Neil Druckmann and showrunner Craig Mazin have already confirmed this new series will dig into...
