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BALDUR'S GATE TV series in development at HBO from LAST OF US team HBO is developing a TV series based on the Baldur's Gate  video game series, set in the Forgotten Realms  fantasy world and Dungeons & Drag...

NEWS: BALDUR'S GATE TV series in development at HBO from LAST OF US team

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#BaldursGate3 #HBO

Sales of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE surpass 100 million It's been a long time coming, but sales of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire  sequence, perhaps better known by the name of its TV...

NEWS: Sales of George R.R. Martin's A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE (aka "the GAME OF THRONES" books) have passed 100 million

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#GameOfThrones #ASongofIceandFire #GeorgeRRMartin

Hugh Cook's epic CHRONICLES OF AN AGE OF DARKNESS series returns to print In unexpectedly splendid news, Hugh Cook's idiosyncratic, funny and genuinely inventive Chronicles of an Age of Darkness  series, all ten vo...

NEWS: Hugh Cook's epic CHRONICLES OF AN AGE OF DARKNESS series returns to print

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This madness should not stand!

Dispatch Robert Robertson III is the third person in his family to take on the persona of "Mecha Man," using a powerful mech suit to fight crime. Dur...

Video Game Review: Dispatch

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#Dispatch #DispatchGame #AdHocStudio

Brandon Sanderson's COSMERE setting picked up for adaptation by Apple TV Apple TV+ has closed an "unprecedented" deal to bring the Cosmere  universe from American fantasy author Brandon Sanderson to the screen. A...

NEWS: Brandon Sanderson's COSMERE setting picked up for adaptation by Apple TV

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#Cosmere #Mistborn #StormlightArchive #AppleTV

RIP Jean Rabe News has sadly broken that fantasy author and tabletop RPG legend Jean Rabe has passed away at the age of 68. She is best-known for her cont...

RIP Jean Rabe, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS writer and editor

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#dungeonsanddragons #DnD

BLAKE'S 7 reboot in development It's that time of the decade when somebody decides to try to resurrect classic dystopian British space opera  Blake's 7 . Blake's 7  ran fo...

NEWS: BLAKE'S 7 reboot in development

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Next MALAZAN novel, LEGACIES OF BETRAYAL, slated for October 2026 release Legacies of Betrayal , the third Tales of Witness book in the Malazan  world by Steven Erikson, has received a tentative release date of 1 ...

NEWS: Next MALAZAN novel, LEGACIES OF BETRAYAL, tentatively slated for October 2026 release

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A Preview of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS On Friday night, I attended the London premiere of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , the latest foray into the Known World of Westeros and Es...

A Preview of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS

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#Knightofthesevenkingdoms #GameOfThrones

Kathleen Kennedy steps down as the boss of Lucasfilm After fourteen years, Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down as the head of Lucasfilm, passing the reigns to Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan. Ken...

NEWS: Kathleen Kennedy steps down as boss of Lucasfilm after fourteen years

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#StarWars #Lucasfilm

Pluribus: Season 1 The entire world has changed. Every human being has become joined into a hive mind, the result of an alien signal received from a distant st...

TV Review: Pluribus - Season 1

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#pluribus

Empire of Exiles by Erin Evans Over a century ago, the changelings overran the known world, destroying the ten great empires. Their survivors fled west, finding refuge in ...

Book Review: Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans

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Sniper Elite 3 June 1942, North Africa. The Germans have taken Tobruk, but American sniper Karl Fairburne distinguishes himself on the battlefield. A skill...

Video Game Review: Sniper Elite 3

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Red Dead Redemption 1911. Twelve years have passed since the Van der Linde Gang broke up in an explosion of violence and betrayal. Former gang member John Marst...

Video Game Review: Red Dead Redemption

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#RedDeadRedemption

Hosting an event with Peter F. Hamilton in late January I'm hosting an event with SF author Peter F. Hamilton at Waterstones Book Store in Colchester, Essex on 21 January (in the UK). I don't ofte...

NEWS: I'm hosting an event with Peter F. Hamilton in Colchester on 21 January

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#peterfhamilton #Waterstones

TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER 40,000 announced Creative Assembly and Games Workshop have confirmed their highly lucrative alliance will continue into the grim darkness of the far future. ...

NEWS: TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER 40,000 announced

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#totalwar #warhammer40k #totalwar40k

STAR WARS: FATE OF THE OLD REPUBLIC announced A new Star Wars  video game has been announced at the 2025 Game Awards. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic  is an action-RPG successor to K...

NEWS: STAR WARS: FATE OF THE OLD REPUBLIC announced

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#StarWars #KnightsoftheOldRepublic #FateoftheOldRepublic #TheGameAwards

Brandon Sanderson hits 50 million sales Brandon Sanderson has confirmed that he has now sold over 50 million copies of his novels. We only had confirmation earlier this year that...

NEWS: Brandon Sanderson hits 50 million sales

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#BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #Mistborn #Stormlight

The new Malazan world map.

The new Malazan world map that comes with the Broken Binding editions of Books 4-6 is certainly very interesting, though numerous inconsistencies with the published books abound. But I suspect that's very deliberate on the part of Erikson & Esslemont.

#malazan #brokenbinding

Creative Assembly announce TOTAL WAR: MEDIEVAL III, confirm another game announcement for next week Creative Assembly have held a showcase to celebrate twenty-five years of their Total War  video game franchise , as well as confirming that ...

NEWS: Creative Assembly announce TOTAL WAR: MEDIEVAL III, confirm another game announcement for next week

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#medieval3 #totalwar #creativeassembly

Tor Books passes on completing JV Jones's SWORD OF SHADOWS series, author to pursue self-publishing Tor Books have - in my view unwisely - decided not to publish the last two volumes of J.V. Jones's long-gestating Sword of Shadows  series. ...

NEWS: Tor Books passes on completing JV Jones's SWORD OF SHADOWS series, author to pursue self-publishing

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#TorBooks #SwordofShadows #JVJones

Doctor Who Review Index (2025) My quest to review every episode of Doctor Who  is one of the bigger projects I've undertaken on the blog, especially in recent years, and n...

Doctor Who Review Index (2025)

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Doctor Who: Season 26 and the TV Movie The Doctor's travels with his companion Ace have returned him to Earth in the near future, where an interdimensional incursion sees him reun...

TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 26 (and the TV Movie)

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Because of the utterly glorious success and precedent of T20!

The Outer Worlds 2 2362. The outer colony systems have mysteriously been cut off from Earth. An Earth Directorate investigation team is dispatched to the Arcad...

Video Game Review: The Outer Worlds 2

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#TheOuterWorlds2 #Obsidian

Doctor Who: Season 25 London, November 1963. A strange white-haired man said to be living in a junkyard with his granddaughter has disappeared, along with two of ...

TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 25

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#DoctorWho #Daleks

RUMOUR: Something may be up with HALF-LIFE 3 Here we go again. Almost quasi-credible rumours are swirling from previously-reliable Valve insiders (including those that broke the news of...

RUMOUR: Something may be up with Half-Life 3

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#halflife #halflife3 #valve #Steam

Forge of the High Mage by Ian Cameron Esslemont The Malazan Empire has completed its conquest of the Quon Tali continent and is mopping up a few rebellions and uprisings. However, Emperor ...

Book Review: Forge of the High Mage of Ian Cameron Esslemont

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#malazan

Doctor Who: Season 24 The TARDIS has been drawn off course with such force that the Doctor has been injured and forced to regenerate. The Rani takes advantage of ...

TV Review: Doctor Who - Season 24

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