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Obsidian’s Aliens RPG was canned because of dysfunction and slow progress, Josh Sawyer reveals
Pentiment director and long-time Obsidian developer Josh Sawyer has shed some light on the Aliens RPG that was in production at the studio and sadly cancelled by publisher Sega. Looking back at cancelled games is always a fun “what if” exercise, especially in this case. Obsidian’s role-playing chops in an Aliens game? Were our charisma stats going to protect us from the ever-murderous Xenomorphs?
‘Westworld’ and other canned HBO shows are now streaming on Roku for free
A boatload of HBO series and other Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) shows and movies are now available to watch for free on Roku. The Roku Channel now includes 14 ad-supported channels that are streaming more than 2,000 hours of WBD content, including shows like Westworld, The Nevers and Raised by Wolves, all of which vanished from HBO Max a few months ago.
In January, WBD struck deals with Roku and Tubi for free, ad-supported streaming (aka FAST) channels. Three of the cable-style channels debuted on Tubi in early February, but it took a little longer for them all to land on Roku.
The channels are each focused on different areas. There’s one for fan-favorite shows like the canceled Westworld and Nikita (WB TV Watchlist), another centered around docuseries such as How It’s Made and How the Earth Works (WB TV How To), a channel for classic movies (WB TV At The Movies) and even one for baking competition series (WB TV Sweet Escapes). Licensing out content for streaming on FAST channels will give WBD another revenue stream as it tries to improve its bottom line — WBD posted a net loss of $2.1 billion for the last three months of 2022.
The channels are arriving on Roku just before WBD folds Discovery+ content into HBO Max as part of a combined streaming service sometime this spring. Discovery+ will remain as a standalone streaming service in the US. It’s believed that the souped-up HBO Max won’t immediately become more expensive. WBD raised the price of the ad-free HBO Max plan for the first time in January.
The company has yet to reveal the name of the new streaming service, though reports indicate that it will simply be called “Max” (shudder). We won’t have to wait much longer to find out, though. WBD plans to spill the beans at an event on April 12th.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/westworld-and-other-canned-hbo-shows-are-now-streaming-on-roku-for-free-183106349.html?src=rss
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Just Cause’s developer worked on an Iron Man game for two years before it got canned
It turns out that Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios previously worked on an Iron Man game for two years before it was ultimately cancelled.
There are probably a million and one cancelled games we’ll never hear about due to non-disclosure agreements and the like, but recently Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg, speaking to MinnMax, revealed that the studio was working on an Iron Man game that was unfortunately cancelled.
According to Sundberg, Disney and Marvel came to the studio to inquire about an Iron Man game, which later began development that same year. But, according to Sundberg, Disney wanted to shorten the development time by a whole year, which given this industry’s history with delays, isn’t exactly the norm.