The Witcher Season 2 to Resume Production on August 17
Netflix has announced that principal photography on The Witcher Season 2 will officially resume in the UK on August 17.
The Twitter account for the smash hit series confirmed that filming would resume in just under two months via a nifty little ditty, written in the poetic style of fan-favourite bard Jaskier.
I’m dusting off my lute and quill,
I have some news, some mead to spill:
After all the months we’ve been apart
It’s time for production to restart.
The Witcher and his bard – who’s flawless,
Will reunite on set 17 August.— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) June 22, 2020
“I’m dusting off my lute and quill, I have some news, some mead to spill: After all the months we’ve been apart it’s time for production to restart. The Witcher and his bard – who’s flawless, will reunite on set 17 August,” the post read.
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The Witcher season 2 suspended its production in London back in March, as Netflix paused filming on all of its films and TV shows in the US and Canada in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, several productions have recently been given the “green light” to take their first steps back into production after a new mandate of safety protocols were approved in the UK.
“This is a green light that signals that the UK is open for business again for film and high-end TV production,” an industry source told The Guardian at the beginning of June. “Many productions have to get up and running again in the next two months or they won’t get made this year as they rely on summer weather and conditions.”
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The Witcher has been a huge success for Netflix, with 76 million households watching the first season of the action-packed fantasy-drama, and yet many fans were left bemused by the show’s “controversial” multi-timeline format. Although showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has stood by this as a storytelling device, she has promised that the second season will be more streamlined, now that the characters’ individual stories have intersected to exist on the “same timeline.”
The Witcher Season 2 is due to stream on Netflix in 2021.
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EA Boss On The Importance Of Diversity And Inclusion
EA’s chief studios officer Laura Miele has shared new details on the company’s ambition to be a more inclusive and diverse company, and why that will help the outfit to make the best games.
Speaking to GI.biz, Miele shared that EA has created a new set of internal guidelines called the “Inclusion Framework” that studios use to help make more inclusive characters and stories. Miele pointed to Kim Hunter, the fictional female hero of the FIFA story mode in recent years, as an example of a development team creating a game with the aim of helping to appeal to a wider audience than before.
“We want to make games for everyone, and our games and characters must be as diverse as the communities we serve,” Miele said. “One way we enable that is our Inclusion Framework, a set of filters designed to challenge our thinking and help our studios develop more inclusive characters and stories across our games. A great example of this is FIFA. The team has adopted the framework and completes a diversity assessment every year. It enabled the FIFA team to ensure Kim Hunter was a unique and truly authentic character and a gaming first–the first female playable hero in a sports story.”
Call Of Duty: Warzone–Watch A Squad Drum Up A Victory With Only Kali Stick Kills
Call of Duty: Warzone added a new melee weapon in Season 4–the Kali Stick, a pair of sticks that can be used as melee weapons to quickly beat down an opponent. Generally, a new melee weapon is not as exciting in a game like this as a new powerful gun. As it turns out, though, the Kali Stick is incredibly deadly in the right hands.
YouTuber Vikkstar123 has released a video of him and the other members of his three-person squad racking up a win in the Call of Duty battle royale game only using Kali Sticks to hurt their enemies.
While secondary grenades like flashbangs are used, and the squad also use vehicles to move around the map and riot shields to protect themselves, their kills are all scored with these sticks.
New Gotham-Related Web Domain Registrations Hint At Next Batman Games
A number of new domain registrations have sparked speculation after they were shared on the Resetera forums, as picked up by Video Games Chronicle. They include suicidesquadgame.com, gothamknightsgame.com, and suicidesquadkillthejusticeleague.com, all of which have been registered in June by MarkMonitor Inc. While the link to Warner Bros hasn’t yet been confirmed, MarkMonitor Inc. is the same domain broker used to register wbgames.com.
WB Games Montreal, the studio behind Batman: Arkham Origins, has been teasing a new Batman game for months now with the slogan “Capture The Knight”. This has led fans to assume that the Gotham Knights domain registration is tied to–and has revealed the name of–WB Games Montreal’s new game.
There have been rumors of a Suicide Squad game going back to when the movie was first released, with a Kotaku report claiming that WB Montreal was working on one that ended up being cancelled. To date, aside from a few tie-ins with existing Batman games, the only Suicide Squad game released was Suicide Squad: Special Ops, a first-person-shooter released on mobile platforms.
Mark Hamill Reveals He Had A Secret Cameo In The Mandalorian And Many Other Star Wars Projects
It turns out that Mark Hamill has appeared in more Star Wars films and TV shows than we might have known. It was recently confirmed that Hamill had an unannounced voice cameo in The Mandalorian as the robot bartender EV-9D9, but his list of vocal cameos goes much further.
Hamill said on Twitter that he has, in fact, performed a voice or acting role in every Star Wars movie except the prequels. He had secret voice roles in the spin-offs Rogue One and Solo, as well The Force Awakens. Hamill personally thanked Skywalker Sound editor Matthew Wood for helping him appear in more Star Wars projects than fans might have guessed.
But which character did Hamill voice in The Force Awakens? Hamill wouldn’t say, but he did confirm it’s a part played by “Patrick Williams,” which is the pseudonym that he uses for his uncredited roles. “Patrick Williams” also voiced the alien Boolio in The Rise of Skywalker.
Battlefield Developer’s Unreleased Game From 1994 Is Finally Out This Week
Ultracore is releasing on June 23, marking the end of a journey that has been stalled since 1994. The game, previously known as Hardcore, was cancelled by Psygnosis in 1994. It was due to release for the Amiga, Sega Genesis, and Sega CD, but the near-finished game was cancelled by its publisher due to the impending launch of the PlayStation, and the assumption that a game that wasn’t 32-bit would not sell.
Hardcore was to be one of the earliest releases of Digital Illusions, now known as DICE, the developer of the Battlefield franchise. Now, 26 years later, the game is finally debuting this week for two modern systems.
Ultracore is releasing on PS4 and Switch, with a PlayStation Vita version planned to release at a later date. The game, which is a run-and-gun platformer with five stages, will cost $23, and is being published by ININ Games, which recently released the Darius Arcade and Console Collections. It’s being released with an updated soundtrack, featuring 20 tunes from various synthwave and electronic artists.
New Xbox Shooter Crossfire X Is Getting A Beta Very Soon, Store Leak Suggests
Crossfire, which is one of the world’s biggest FPS games on PC, is coming to the Xbox platform as a timed-exclusive for Microsoft’s console–and it appears there will be a beta ahead of launch.
WindowsCentral noticed that a listing for a CrossfireX beta has appeared on the Microsoft Store. The product page states that the beta will begin on June 25. The file size is 5.88 GB. You can see a variety of screenshots in the gallery below; click each image to see it in full size.
CrossfireX is a free-to-play online multiplayer game that supports up 16 players. The game will offer a “variety of classic and innovative” modes, but it’s not immediately clear which ones are in the beta.
Lord Of The Rings Online Players Gather To Celebrate Ian Holm’s Life
If there’s one place to hold a memorial for the esteemed Sir Ian Holm, it’s in Middle-earth itself–albeit the online version. Lord Of The Rings Online players across multiple servers celebrated the life of an actor most known within the fandom as playing Bilbo Baggins in the LOTR films, but who also lent his voice to Frodo in the 1981 BBC radio play of the same story.
After the news that Holm had passed away on June 19 at the age of 88, around 300 players on the Evernight server marched to Rivendell to visit the Bilbo Baggins NPC in the Last Homely House in Rivendell, while the song Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold played as an homage to his first ever adventure.
The roleplay server Laurelin had players gather at Bilbo’s home, Bag End, where a dwarven minstrel played music for the crowd of mourners.