With NFL vet Clint Oldenburg becoming the face of Madden's dev team, more players are wondering if game dev is their life after football too.
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Shinichirō Watanabe, the man behind anime classics like Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, has lined up his next anime project. The new series is called Lazarus and comes from an all-star creative team that includes John Wick director Chad Stahelski and jazz legend Kamasi Washington.
Lazarus is set in 2052 after the world has been given a wonder-drug that cures sickness forever. However, three years later, the inventor of the drug announces that it was secretly a slow acting poison that will kill anyone that took it. A special five-person task force called Lazarus is then put together to find the doctor and stop his plan in time to save the world.
Watanabe will serve as the creator and director of the series, but he isn’t alone in making it. Stahelski is on board to design action sequences, while Washington, Floating Points, and Bonobo will all contribute to the soundtrack. The series will also be animated by MAPPA (Jujutsu Kaisen). There’s no release date for Lazarus yet, but it will air in the U.S. on Adult Swim.
There’s also no word yet on when we might see more of Lazarus, but with Adult Swim Festival set for July 22, it’s possible we could get our first look at the series soon.
With NFL vet Clint Oldenburg becoming the face of Madden's dev team, more players are wondering if game dev is their life after football too.
New Zealand's primary competition regulator, the Commerce Commission, has approved Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
While Microsoft sent its final submission to the Consumer Markets Authority in the UK regarding its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, another regular has approved the deal. New Zealand’s Commerce Commission announced its approval, noting its focus on “the importance of Activision games (such as Call of Duty, Overwatch and World of Warcraft) to New Zealand gamers.”
Today was a big day for businesses that are either working heavily with artificial intelligence or are looking to get into this space. Walt Disney has created a new task force that will study AI and find out all the different ways it can be used in its businesses in the entertainment industry. In other news. Spotify is finally expanding its experimental feature of an AI DJ to 50 different countries, after keeping it in limited access for almost three months. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
One more country has approved Microsoft's mega purchase, leaving only one more pending outside of the UK's roadblock.
New Zealand has become the latest part of the world to give the nod to Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
New Zealand has become the latest company to approve Microsoft‘s impending purchase of Activision Blizzard.
New Zealand has approved Microsoft’s merger-acquisition deal with Activision Blizzard King.
Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard has been approved by New Zealand's Commerce Commission.
Today, after a long list of eight delays (called time extensions), the New Zealand Commerce Commission has officially cleared Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard. That makes the Pacific Ocean island country the 42nd where the deal has been approved, although technically, the Federal Trade Commission may still continue to pursue its in-house judiciary process even after being defeated in federal court following the request for a preliminary injunction.
Sledgehammer Games and Activision today announced the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.
It's been a hot minute since we first started looking for a news editor to take the reins of RPS' daily news posting, but today I'm very pleased to announce that search has finally come to an end. Please give a very warm welcome to Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, the latest addition to the RPS hivemind.