The 2023 Emmy Award season should have ended on September 19th. Because of both the WGA and SAG strikes the ceremonies were pushed to January.
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Naughty Dog has confirmed the cancellation of its multiplayer spin-off for The Last Of Us.The video game developer took to its blog last week to announce the news, writing: “We realize many of you have been anticipating news around the project that we’ve been calling The Last of Us Online. There’s no easy way to say this: We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game.”After acknowledging that the decision was a tough one to make and that it will understandably upset loyal fans as well as the developers working on it, Naughty Dog shared more insights into how it came to the decision.The developer notes that the game had been in pre-production since it was working on The Last Of Us Part II but that the “massive scope of our ambition became clear” as it went into full production.“To release and support The Last of Us Online we’d have to put all our studio resources behind supporting post launch content for years to come, severely impacting development on future single-player games.
So, we had two paths in front of us: become a solely live service games studio or continue to focus on single-player narrative games that have defined Naughty Dog’s heritage.”Moving forward, Naughty Dog says that “the learnings and investments in technology from this game will carry into how we develop our projects and will be invaluable in the direction we are headed as a studio.”The studio also confirmed that they have “more than one ambitions, brand new single player game” in the works, though it can’t divulge more information at this time.The Last Of Us multiplayer game was announced in 2022 with a piece of concept art teasing what’s to come. The developer went on to release another in February, which provided
.The 2023 Emmy Award season should have ended on September 19th. Because of both the WGA and SAG strikes the ceremonies were pushed to January.
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The Last Dinner Party have been named the winner of the BBC’s Sound of 2024 poll.The London-based indie band and NME 100 alumni, made up of Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci, were chosen as winners by a panel of over 140 music industry experts and artists.The band beat out Olivia Dean, who came second, and Peggy Gou, Tyla and Elmiene, who rounded out the top five spots.The achievement follows a massive breakout year for the band, who featured on NME’s The Cover in December.In that interview, they opened up about their meteoric rise, saying, “It can feel a bit like going in a car really fast and not being in charge of the steering wheel. We’re trying to ignore the words ‘hype’ and ‘buzzy band’ and just focus on what grounds us: playing, writing and rehearsing our music.”Speaking about topping the list, the band said: “We are overjoyed to have won BBC Radio 1’s Sound Of Award for 2024! We predict amazing things happening in music this year and it is truly an honour to even be a part of it.“BBC Radio has championed us and so many other young artists from the start of their careers, we still can’t believe it every time we hear one of our songs being played.
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The Last Dinner Party have dropped a theatrical new single, titled ‘Caesar On A TV Screen’. Check it out below.Shared earlier today (January 4), the new track precedes the release of the forthcoming debut album, ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’, and sees the indie five-piece channel inspiration from one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.Their first new music of 2024, ‘Caesar On A TV Screen’ captures the same charisma that first put the band on the map – with a blend of rock and pop touches and a colourful sense of theatricality.“Just for a second, I can be one of the greats/ I’ll be Caesar on a TV screen, Champion of my fate/ No one can tell me to stop, I’ll have everything I want/ Anyone and everyone will like me then,” frontwoman Abigail Morris sings in the chorus, as the band channel their inner Shakespearean actors for the music video.Check out the track below.The new track arrives ahead of The Last Dinner Party’s long-awaited debut album, ‘Prelude To Ecstasy’ (pre-order/pre-save here).Set to arrive on February 2 via Island Records, the much-hyped London band and NME 100 alumni first teased their first LP last year, and it’ll also feature previously shared singles ‘Nothing Matters’, ‘Sinner’, ‘My Lady Of Mercy’ and ‘On Your Side’.“Ecstasy is a pendulum which swings between the extremes of human emotion, from the ecstasy of passion to the sublimity of pain, and it is this concept which binds our album together,” the band said of the new album.“This is an archeology of ourselves; you can exhume our collective and individual experiences and influences from within its fabric.
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Emmerdale viewers were left raging at the ITV soap's latest plot twist as it appears that Chas Dingle (played by Lucy Pargeter) and her estranged son Aaron Dingle (Danny Miller) could end up in a complicated romance with a father and son. Ever since Aaron returned to the village, he's been a far cry from his old self, instead wallowing in grief and self-pity and taking out his anger on his mum. As a result of his lingering resentment over what he perceives to be Chas's role in sister Liv Flaherty's death, Aaron was enraged to discover his mum and vicar Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin) developing a friendship in the latest episode.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Naughty Dog, the game studio behind megahit “The Last of Us,” has released deeply disappointing news to many fans: It has decided to pull the plug on its multiplayer project dubbed The Last of Us Online to focus fully on single-player games. “There’s no easy way to say this: We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game,” Naughty Dog announced in a blog post Thursday.
The Last Dinner Party have hit out at “lads” for posting “weird shit” on Twitter/X in a new post on the social media platform.The band – comprised of Abigail Morris, Lizzie Mayland, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies and Aurora Nishevci – shared their views on the site yesterday (December 11) calling out the users who posted inappropriate content about them.They wrote: “Need lads on here to know we see the weird shit you post about us and are highly unimpressed,” they wrote, before adding: “have some fucking decorum.”You can see the tweet here:Need lads on here to know we see the weird shit you post about us and are highly unimpressed! Have some fucking decorum— The Last Dinner Party (@lastdinnerparty) December 11, 2023The band were recently announced as the winners of the prestigious BRITs Rising Star award supported by BBC Radio 1.The Rising Star prize recognises British artists who had not achieved a top 20 album, or more than one top 20 single by October 31 of this year. It is voted by an industry-wide panel.
HBO has confirmed that the highly anticipated new seasons of The Last Of Us, Euphoria and more will premiere only sometime in 2025.This past weekend, Max confirmed the release windows for several of its biggest shows in its ‘One To Watch’ trailer, which showcases new originals, returning series, and more on its upcoming streaming slate.While they don’t have confirmed release dates just yet, The Last Of Us, Euphoria and The White Lotus are among the biggest titles headlining HBO’s 2025 slate. Showcased towards the end of the trailer, these titles are also joined by upcoming seasons of the Sex And The City spin-off And Just Like That… and an It spin-off, Welcome To Derry.The release window for The Last Of Us season two comes after its show runner Craig Mazin revealed in an interview earlier this month (December 1) that production on the anticipated follow-up will begin in February next year.The new season of Euphoria had already been on hold for some time as show creator Sam Levinson worked on The Idol. HBO Head of Drama Francesca Orsi told Deadline in May that Levinson’s work on that plus Zendaya’s packed schedule and the recently concluded actors and writers’ strike would likely push back the premiere to 2025.In July, Euphoria star Angus Cloud died of an accidental drug overdose, which could potentially push back the series’ premiere if his character is being written out.In November, The White Lotus creator Mike White revealed that he hopes to begin work on its third season early next year, teasing it will be “bigger” in scope.“It’s going to be supersized White Lotus,” he added.
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