'The Last Of Us' Video Game Will Get Television Adaption at HBO

The video game division of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot has formed an in-house game development studio, tapping industry veteran Michael Booth to serve as its general manager.

If you follow filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts on any form of social media, two things become readily apparent. First, the man has a lovely beard.

Naman Ramachandran British-Guyanese actor Letitia Wright, star of “Black Panther” and Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove,” has responded to extensive backlash after she posted a controversial anti-vax video to Twitter on Thursday night.On Friday afternoon U.K.

Debra White Plume was a Lakota activist who was one of the leaders of the protests at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).White Plume was a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, and her home at the Pine Ridge reservation was where Native American activists occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1973 and demanded that the U.S. government honor its treaties with their tribes.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Kirkcudbrightshire chemist’s son who went on to become President of Ghana has died in hospital in Accra, the country’s capital, aged 73.Jerry John (JJ) Rawlings is reported to have contracted Covid-19 after attending his mother’s funeral in the city.He was the son of James Ramsay John, a pharmacist from Castle Douglas who spent almost 30 years in the country.James became head of Kingsway Chemists, now part

Peter White Television EditorHBO has given a series order to The Last of Us, the adaptation of the Playstation video game, from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin, video game creator Neil Druckmann and Game of Thrones exec producer Carolyn Strauss.The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions, Word Games, and Naughty Dog.

Keanu Reeves’ next project will be seen onscreen, but it’s not a movie or TV series.

Hitman.” IO Interactive will use its proprietary game design software, Glacier (which it used to make the “Hitman” series) to develop the upcoming Bond game.IO Interactive announced the project in a teaser trailer today, but the upcoming game doesn’t have a release date yet.A free mobile title called “007: World of Espionage” was released by developer Glu in 2015, but there hasn’t been a major PC and console James Bond game since the last James Bond-inspired video game for console and PC, “007

Kotaku explained that “Unkore” is a portmanteau for unko, meaning “poop,” and kore, or “collection.”Developed as part of a public-health campaign in Japan, where colorectal cancer is on the rise, the free game is set in the fictional kingdom of Untopia, which players must defend with the help of anthropomorphic intestinal bacteria.The cheeky app also encourages users to log details of their own bowel movements, such as color, shape and frequency — with the hope they receive a clean bill of

Litany has debuted the new video for her single ‘Uh-huh’, which features a host of famous faces including comedians Joe Lycett and Katherine Ryan.

LONDON -- A study by Oxford University researchers on how playing video games affects mental health used data from video game makers, marking what the authors say is a rare collaboration between academics and the game industry.Lack of transparency from game makers has long been an issue for scientists hoping to better understand player behaviors.The paper released Monday by the Oxford Internet Institute comes as video game sales this year have boomed as more people are stuck at home because of

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerTerry McMillan, the novelist behind the 1992 NYT bestseller, Waiting to Exhale, announced via Twitter that a television adaptation is in the works with Lee Daniels attached to produce and Anthony Hemingway on board to direct.“So, WAITING TO EXHALE is going to be a TV series,” McMillan wrote in a Twitter post. “Produced by Lee Daniels.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorLike much of the world, I was thrilled to hear on Monday that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was proving to be effective and could end up being available before the end of the year.Sure, it seemed hopeful that there might eventually be an end to the pandemic in sight.