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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 releases on October 21

Bloodlines 2 finally narrows down its release window to a specific date, after years of delays and development troubles.

3:35Pm - Moonlighter 2 is coming to early access October 23.

3:32Pm - Guess what - we're back to anime-style. This one is Fate Trigger, early access coming Q1 2026. And it's followed by a trailer Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, an open-world RPG set in the world of the popular anime.

3:31Pm - Remember the Sims competitor InZoi from a few months ago? If you're still playing, the Island Getaway Dlc is out tomorrow, with a new trailer highlighting its relaxed vibes.

3:29Pm - Ben Schwarz introduces a new trailer for Obsidian's Outer Wilds 2, the last big release of the studio's busy 2025 slate.

3:27Pm - A new Chronos: The New Dawn trailer highlights Bloober Team's recent pivot toward action-packed horror.

At first glance, the "Star Wars" franchise and "Monkey Island" video game property seem very different. The former is a space-themed adventure set in a galaxy far, far away. The other is about puzzle-solving, seafaring voyages through the Caribbean. That said, both sagas feature pirates and they're associated with Lucasfilm, so they aren't completely alien to each other. Furthermore, their connection has only grown stronger thanks to the tremendous Amblin-inspired "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" series on Disney+.

"Skeleton Crew" tells the story of a group of kids who encounter space pirates while embarking on a spirited adventure across the galaxy. The series draws upon a variety of influences, including the aforementioned point-and-click adventure games. While speaking to SFX Magazine (via GamesRadar), co-showrunner Jon Watts explained what the "Monkey Island" games mean to him, and how they informed the creation of "Skeleton Crew":

"It was great to go back and...

Blackpills, a new streaming service, has acquired rights to Adaptive Studios' digital series Pineapple, which will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival with three short-form episodes from the series screening as part of the Midnight Episodic Showcase on Jan. 21.

Written, directed and edited by Arkasha Stevenson, Pineapple follows a miner's daughter who is assaulted in a local coal mine and the impact the event has on the small town in which she lives. The cast includes Tyler Vickers, Kel Owens, Ron Gilbert, Gloria Vonn, Lucille Sharp, and Brooklyn Robinson. The project was produced by Drew Diamond, Halee...

The Sundance Film Festival continues to embrace the diversity of great content being made today, with a full roster of special events programming that features established festival favorites like Jill Soloway, Rashida Jones and Gina Prince-Bythewood.

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Making its world premiere at the fest is “I Love Dick,” Soloway’s Amazon comedy featuring Kevin Bacon as the titular Dick, a “charismatic artist” who upends the marriage of Kathryn Hanh and Griffith Dunne. In addition, the Netflix documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” gets a sequel directed by Rashida Jones; “Turned On” explores “the intersection of sex and technology,” per the official release.

Broadcast networks find themselves surprisingly well-represented in the line-up, with the ABC comedy “Downward Dog” (featuring Allison Tolman as a young woman with a special relationship with her dog) as well as the Fox limited series “Shots Fired,...