It still feels like I should be saying “happy New Year!” but I think its time to accept we’re back to the normal pace of life after the hectic holiday season. We had the Golden Globes and CES 2025 this week on at its high points. It has also been a devastating week in California with ravaging wildfires.
From movie trailers, gaming updates, and more, here’s the news you may have missed this week.
Sony confirmed the news during its nearly hour-long CES presentation on Monday! I’ve included a time jump to the announcement.
PlayStation Productions and Columbia Pictures are in the early stages of the production process.
We also got a cute look LEGO Horizon Adventures x mxmtoon music video and a BTS video.
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You’ll be able to add the service to Crunchyroll membership as a premium add-on when it launches later in 2025 as a standalone app on iOS and Android, according to Crunchyroll.
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S players can sign up for the Elden Ring Nightrein network test at nightreign.com/nt. The game is slated to launch later this year.
“The network test will allow players to try the game’s co-op experience, teaming up in squads of three to outlast a three day-and-night cycle as they take on increasingly challenging enemies and bosses,” Bandai Namco said in a press release.
The all-new adventure in ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN begins at the Roundtable Hold, set in a universe parallel to the events of ELDEN RING. Players must choose from eight unique characters, each with their own abilities and powerful Ultimates. Their journeys take them to Limveld, an ever-changing environment, where they will have to make split-second decisions when it comes to combat and exploration in the face of a night cycle that shrinks the map with the coming Night’s Tide. At the end of each night, players will face a powerful boss and, if victorious, awaken to bigger challenges. Each session will culminate in the third night when they must face off against the chosen Nightlord. Individuals can fight the night alone, but strength will come in numbers. Nightfarers must learn to cooperate to take down these challenges, combining their unique abilities together for an unparalleled experience. All is not lost for those who fall in defeat. Unsuccessful runs will grant players relics to allow them to customize and upgrade their characters tailored to their personal play styles.
Funcom revealed the upcoming massively multiplayer open-world survival game Dune: Awakening will be one of the first games to use NVIDIA’s brand-new DLSS 4 technology with Multi Frame Generation. The game will also include Razer’s next-gen Chroma and Haptics integration.
The tech will make “it an ideal way to experience the harsh and expansive beauty of Arrakis,” according to a news release. Dune: Awakening launches on PC in early 2025.
Through Razer’s brand-new synced lighting and the full suite of Razer’s haptic feedback devices, including the Freyja HD haptic gaming cushion and Kraken Pro headset, the lines between Arrakis and reality begin to blur. Feel everything happening around you: the ground rumbling as a giant sandworm approaches, the crashing wind of the deadly sandstorm, and the kick of the rocket launcher as you fire at an enemy Ornithopter. In a game where situational awareness is key for survival, Razer Chroma and Haptics is an excellent match.
New Cast Images of Hulu’s ‘Thousand Blows’
The ‘Thousand Blows’ six-episode first season will premiere on February 21 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. The show is from “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight.
Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow and Alec Munroe, best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.
The new images:
Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema dropped the official trailer for sci-fi/horror movie Companion ahead of its January 31 theatrical release. The film is written and directed by Drew Hancock (My Dead Ex, Suburgatory) and produced by the filmmakers behind Barbarian—Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Zach Cregger and Roy Lee. The executive producers are Tracy Rosenblum and Jamie Buckner.
The film stars Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, The Boogeyman), Jack Quaid (The Boys, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), Lukas Gage (Smile 2, Dead Boy Detectives), Megan Suri (Never Have I Ever, It Lives Inside), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows, Blue Beetle) and Rupert Friend (High Desert, Asteroid City).
Amazon MGM release the official trailer for A Working Man. The film hits theaters March 28.
A Working Man is adapted from veteran comic book writer Chuck Dixon’s 2014 novel “Levon’s Trade and stars Jason Statham. David Ayer is directing and co-writing with Sylvester Stallone.
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss’s daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
Amazon Prime dropped the S3 trailer for Reacher ahead of its February 20 premiere. The season will be 8 episodes long. The first 3 episodes will release on February 20 and then release every Thursday until March 27.
The show is based on Lee Child’s novel Persuader.
Harlem’s third and final season releases on Amazon Prime on January 23.
“I’m beyond grateful to the whole team at Amazon for giving me the chance of a lifetime to tell these four Black women’s stories and shoot it in the city I love: Harlem. It’s been an incredible journey, and I’m honored to see the impact it’s made in the culture, as well as the impact it’s had on all of us who’ve been blessed to work on it.” Tracy Oliver, creator, writer and Executive Producer for Harlem, said in a press release. “A huge thank you to everyone who’s watched the show. I’m excited to finally share our best season yet.”
