Star Trek Launching Animated Comedy Series from Rick and Morty Writer

CBS All Access today has announced its next original Star Trek production. Star Trek: Lower Decks will be a new half-hour animated comedy series developed by Rick and Morty writer-producer Mike McMahan. The series, which has a two-season order, will be about the support crew on “one of Starfleet’s least important ships.”

A new animated Star Trek show has been rumored for months as one of the candidates in the array of possible new Trek ventures being plotted out by CBS and executive producer Alex Kurtzman, who is overseeing the entire TV franchise for the streaming service. Last summer reports emerged that Kurtzman, who is the co-creator and current showrunner of Star Trek: Discovery, had signed a five-year, $25 million deal with CBS Television Studios to create at least four new shows set in the Star Trek universe.

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Get an Exclusive Sneak Peek at RWBY Volume 6

Rooster Teeth’s hit animated series RWBY returns for Volume 6 on Oct. 27, and we’ve got an exclusive clip from the new season.

In the sneak peek, team RWBY, Oscar, and Qrow meet the “bodyguards” assigned to aid them on their journey transporting the Relic of Knowledge safely to Atlas. There ’s countless miles of Grimm-covered countryside between the city of Mistral and the northern coastline of Anima. Fortunately, the Argus Limited can easily make the journey… so long as nothing goes wrong.

In Volume 6, per Rooster Teeth, Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang have been reunited and Team RWBY’s first mission back is one of grave importance: escorting the Relic of Knowledge to Atlas. With Beacon fallen and Mistral compromised, Remnant’s northernmost academy may now be the safest place in the world, but making it there will be more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.

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Outlaw King – Official Trailer #2

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We’re Streaming 2 Hours of Red Dead Redemption 2 Tomorrow

Load your six shooter and saddle up your horses, because one of the biggest games of the year is almost upon us.

We’re streaming two hours of Red Dead Redemption 2 tomorrow, October 25, starting at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm UK (October 26 at 4am AET), so be sure to tune in and get an early look at what’s new in Rockstar’s open-world Western.

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As always, you can watch right here on the front page of IGN.com, or you can find us on YouTubeTwitch, and Mixer.

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Netflix’s Castlevania Is the King of Video Game Adaptations

Note: this is a spoiler-free advance review of Castlevania Season 2, which debuts on Netflix on Friday, October 26.

Why is it that Hollywood has managed to perfect the comic book movie formula over the past decade, yet producing even a halfway competent video game adaptation seems entirely beyond the abilities of most studios? Why, after all these years, are projects like 1995’s Mortal Kombat and 2006’s Silent Hill still held up as the benchmarks by which all others are judged? It’s enough to wonder if this genre just isn’t meant to succeed. Then, something like Netflix’s Castlevania series comes along to prove that all we ever needed was the right combination of worthwhile source material and talented storytellers. Season 2 now cements Castlevania as king of the (admittedly short) video game adaptation hill.

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