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Though the end of Game of Thrones in 2019 dovetailed directly into news that HBO was in development on a slate of spinoff series spearheaded by source material author George R.R. Martin, 2024 only feels like the beginning of a GoT onslaught. House of the Dragon, the only show that’s gone before cameras (besides an entirely different pilot that was shot and scrapped), will return for season 2 this summer. A Knight of Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, adapting Martin’s Dunk and Egg story, has a greenlight with lofty goals of arriving before year’s end. A Jon Snow series might still be in the works? Easy to believe, but there are no officially announced plans.

Telegram has announced that it is bringing major changes to the quality of voice and video calls on Android. The platform, which serves as a competitor to WhatsApp, also offers security features like end-to-end encryption and two-step authentication. Moreover, the app also has ‘bots' that offer additional functionality for various tasks. Like WhatsApp, it also offers voice and video calling functionality, and it is here that users may benefit from the latest Telegram update. Also, the users who are going to benefit the most are those with older smartphones as these changes will work very well on them too. Telegram revealed, "The new interface requires fewer resources than before, which means it saves battery life and works better on older devices." The update will also have a positive impact on battery life and will not cause quick draining of charge. Check out what's coming in this latest Telegram update.

One of the most iconic streamer deaths in WoW Classic’s popular Hardcore servers has been immortalized in a video that’s way better than it has any right to be, thanks to one talented MMO fan indeed. 

Twenty-five years ago, DreamWorks’ movie The Prince of Egypt hit theaters. Its release could have changed American animation — and maybe should have. But it didn’t.

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has been turned into a stop-motion animated short film, kind of. 

Mouse, an upcoming classic first-person shooter sporting a vintage rubber hose animation style, turned heads in May with its first look at gameplay. Although that initial showing was very much a work in progress, today’s video offers a more polished look at what’s to come.

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Procreate is one of the most popular apps on the Apple ecosystem. An alternative to Adobe Illustrator, the app is used to create digital art pieces using a wide variety of brushes, colours, layers, and more. To further give users the power to create their own artwork, Procreate has finally launched Procreate Dreams, its latest app that allows users to create 2D animations, and express their stories. Know all about this new app coming to the iPad.

Sega and Sonic Team have released the opening animation for Sonic Dream Team, its Apple Arcade-exclusive platformer that’s out next month. Directed by Tyson Hesse and animated by Powerhouse Animation with music by Tee Lopes, it sees Sonic, Amy, Tails, Knuckles, Cream and Rouge battling against Eggman and his latest schemes. Check it out below.

Publisher SEGA and developer HARDlight have released the opening animation for Sonic the Hedgehog 3D action platformer Sonic Dream Team.

Baldur's Gate 3 devs know Astarion's kissing animations are bad right now, but they're working on a solution.

Larian Studios announced on Monday that Jim Southworth, who led the Baldur's Gate 3 cinematic animation team, has died. He was 56 years old, and had been diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2022.

DeepMotion, a maker of AI-powered motion capture technology, wants to redefine the animation landscape with the launch of MotionGPT.

My main job in Final Fantasy 14 is the ninja. It has a satisfying rotation. I like that I can occasionally dip into ranged combat. I like that I'm slightly faster than everyone. I like that I get a little bunny on my head when I mess up. It's good fun.

The torturous wait for an official announcement of Grand Theft Auto 6, and it’s anyone’s guess just how much longer it’ll drag on, and with Rockstar seemingly being in no mood to share details on the long-awaited open world title just yet, fans are continuing to look at alternative sources that might give an indication of what to expect from the game.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to feature more diverse and lifelike animations compared to previous entries in the series, judging from the unique animation system the game will employ.

 Embracer Group layoffs have hit animation studio Digic Pictures, which the company acquired in 2021. 

Forbes Hungary reports that animation studio Digic Pictures reduced its staff by 35 employees over the summer. The cuts are said to reflect around 10 percent of the studio's headcount (its LinkedIn currently notes 326 staff) and come as part of a reorganization at the company which took place between June and September. 

The Pokémon Company has released a new short animation in which Detective Pikachu investigates who stole a flan from his human sidekick's fridge.

We have another awesome art highlight, as Senior VFX Artist Ethan Zink shares some of the special animation effects he created for Augmentation Evokers in Patch 10.1.5! Check out more of Ethan's fantastic work on ArtStation.

There’s a new web event for Genshin Impact to promote the release of its new OST album, but some seemingly AI-generated artwork featured in the event leaves a lot to be desired.

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Nintendo has shared a new promo for upcoming release Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and it is really quite charming.

Netflix has announced that an animated adaptation of what seems to be the most recent Tomb Raider games is now in production. Officially titled Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, the series is «coming soon» to the streaming service.

Roughly two years after Netflix announced plans for a Tomb Raider anime, we've finally been given our first look at Lara Croft in cartoon action.

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The world of Pokémon animation, for a long time, always seemed to have two different directives in the wider scheme of the franchise — it constantly needed to be both an introduction and an alternative. It had served as a sort of Pikachu-filled warmup in the most literal sense, debuting a few weeks before the Pokémon games did in the United States as a teaser taste for the “Pokémania” to come. And from then on, with a more obvious focus at younger audiences, it would always be a great way for youngsters to get their feet wet before they jumped into actually taking a role themselves.

A Starfield fan known for creating miniature stop-motion-style animations has done exactly that and is giving fans a glimpse into the RPG's everyday world.

An animated movie based on science fiction catventure Stray is in "active development", reports Entertainemnt Weekly. It's being developed by Annapurna Animation, the recently formed animation division of Annapurna Pictures, who also operate Stray's publisher Annapurna Interactive.

BlueTwelve Studio’s cat-centric action-adventure game Stray is about to venture into new territory. Publisher Annapurna Interactive’s own Annapurna Animation is working on an animated adaptation of the material. The feature is in development, and it won’t be the last from the studio’s library to receive such treatment.

With the release of the long-awaited Nikke x Nier collaboration, we now have a brand-new animation to go alongside it – and it’s in 3D!

Baldur’s Gate 3’s performances have been so stellar that they’ve sparked a wildfire of interaction between the talented voice actors and the avid community.

Players worldwide are waiting for Bethesda to bring out their next big release. Starfield has been teased for several years while we waited on the sidelines, hopeful that this game would arrive sooner rather than later. Of course, since the initial announcement, Bethesda had been acquired by Microsoft, and that made Starfield exclusive to the Xbox Series X/S and PC platforms. But despite the now limited release of the game, fans are still eager to play this new RPG from the talented folks who brought out The Elder Scrolls and Fallout games. 

If someone were to write the history of internet video, I think they'd need to mention Killer Bean. Released in 1996, just a year after Toy Story, it was a two-minute, 3D animated short about gun-toting beans, and almost entirely the work of one person. A slightly longer and much improved sequel, Killer Bean 2: The Party, was released in 2000.

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for August 18: It is an exciting time to be a Garena Free Fire player as the OB41 update has introduced a ton of new features in the game. Moreover, players also have a limited window of opportunity to get their hands on exciting new rewards such as the Storm Arrival Animation, which has been introduced as part of the latest Faded Wheel in the game. If you wish to grab similar rewards, here's how to get them through the Faded Wheel in Garena Free Fire.

The first trailer for season 2 of Amazon’s animated series Invincible came with a grabby surprise for fans: a splash page of the many actors who will join the voice cast, including the Sonic movies’ Ben Schwartz, I Think You Should Leave star Tim Robinson, Back to the Future’s Lea Thompson, Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, Black Panther’s Sterling K. Brown, Avatar: The Way of Water’s Cliff Curtis, voice-over industry vets Phil LaMarr, Paul F. Tompkins, and Rob Delaney, and many more. For longtime animation fans, though, one name particularly stood out: Peter Cullen, an animation legend best known as the voice of Autobot leader Optimus Prime in Transformers media going back to 1984.

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Omega Force have released the opening animation for Fate/Samurai Remnant.

Ember Lab has been around since 2009, starting out as a company specialising in commercial animation and digital content. But a decade later it would make its mark in video games with the release of Kena: Bridge of Spirits.

While the box-office haul of this summer’s Transformers: Rise of the Beastsdoesn’t compare to the highest highs of the Michael Bay era, it’s still a big enough hit that fans of the robots in disguise should expect another sequel in the future (and one with a toy line crossover twist). In fact, Transformers 8 isn’t even the only TF movie Paramount Pictures has in the works: Announced in April, the studio will release the animated Transformers One in theaters in 2024. Longtime Transformers movie series producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura tells Polygon says the movie is big — maybe the biggest Transformers story his team has brought to screen yet.

Starbreeze continues to outline some new features coming to Payday 3, with a recent Dev Diary discussing art and animation. While the team talks about key-framing reload animations and motion-capturing deaths, the micro destructions are perhaps the most interesting addition.

Netflix's first original African animated series premiered on Thursday in a debut its creator said she hoped would pave the way for more productions from the continent.

Production staff — 66 employees from Warner Bros. Animation and 22 from Cartoon Network — filed a petition for a union election with the National Labor Relations board yesterday. The group is seeking Warner Bros.’ voluntary recognition of the union as a part of the Animation Guild.

Sega has released the opening animation for the upcoming 2.5D platformer Sonic Superstars. It showcases the core cast as they do what they do best: Destroying Dr Eggman’s machines. Check it out below.