'Call of Duty: Vanguard' first look: Taking the series back to WWII

There’s a scene in 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order where J, a character inspired by Jimi Hendrix, explains to the game’s white protagonist, BJ Blazkowicz, why he’s not fighting. After Blazkowicz talks back, J tells him: "You don't get it, do you? Before all this, before the Germans, before the war, back home, man, you were the Nazis."What I love about that scene is the way it complicates the easy narrative we so often tell ourselves about the Second World War. The New Order understands World War II better than almost any other game inspired by the conflict. Nazism, then as now, was never an ideology that only existed in Hitler's Germany. And in internment camps across the US and Canada and cities like Dresden and Hiroshima, the Allies committed countless injustices of their own.It's that scene my mind returned to as Sledgehammer Games revealed Call of Duty: Vanguard, the next entry in Activision's long-running first-person shooter series, during an online event last week. Like 2017's Call of Duty: WWII, the studio's previous project as lead developer on the franchise, Vanguard takes the series back to where it all started: the Second World War.After talking about the studio's commitment to diversity and creating a safe space for all employees, essentially repeating the same company line Activision Blizzard executives have been saying ever since California filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the publisher, Sledgehammer studio head Aaron Halon introduced Vanguard... Continue reading at 'Engadget'

[ Engadget | 2021-08-19 17:45:33 UTC ]
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Mel Brooks looks back on his delightfully deranged career

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Festival for Working Class Writers calls for book club titles

The Festival for Working-Class Writers' team are on the lookout for books to promote as part of their new book club, which launches in 2022. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-12-08 23:43:53 UTC ]
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Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry’ is as powerful as ‘The Hill We Climb’

The young poet delivers another stirring critique of modern America in a book that is at once pointed and hopeful. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Smirnoff takes on Larsson's Millennium trilogy

Award-winning Swedish author Karin Smirnoff will write three new sequels to Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy.   Continue reading at The Bookseller

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A documentary about Anthony Broadwater’s exoneration, called Unlucky, is in the works.

Yesterday, a footnote to an op-ed in the LA Times revealed that Red Badge Films is now producing a documentary about Anthony Broadwater’s conviction and then exoneration of Alice Sebold’s rape, called Unlucky. Red Badge Films is helmed by Tim Mucciante, previously the executive producer for the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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Quercus takes two more from O'Leary

Quercus has signed two more standalone novels from bestselling author Beth O’Leary.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too.

With its elegant mix of science fiction and metaphysical mystery, Le Tellier’s thriller rests somewhere between “Lost” and “Manifest.” Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Matt Haig's A Boy Called Christmas reaches screens

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Clock Tower lands YA sci-fi gaming series by Sullivan

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Williams takes University of Wales Press into second century with ambitious plans

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Mullins joins Yale's Little Histories series with art edition

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Polygon nets three more in Skelton's 'enthralling' Rebecca Connolly series

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Nugent's Lying in Wait to be developed as mini series

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One More Chapter acquires three more from Wood in DCI Matilda Darke series

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S&S signs Mason's 'delicious and playful' YA series

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PRH re-records Pratchett's Discworld series with Nighy and Serkis

Penguin Random House (PRH) is re-recording all 40 audiobooks from Sir Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series, with an all-star cast of acting talent including Bill Nighy, Andy Serkis and Sian Clifford.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: How They Compare 1 Year Later

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Cool, elected school district officials are calling for literal book burning now.

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