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Space Nation Online’s roadmap spells out 2024 launch for Web3 universe
How Enter The Matrix And The Animatrix Helped Create The Modern Cinematic Universe
Enter the Matrix is celebrating its 20-year anniversary today, May 14, 2023. Below, we take a look at how the game broke new ground for interconnected, cross-media storytelling.
Nearly 25 years later, the original Matrix’s legacy as a stone-cold classic film is secure. Arguably, it was pretty much a done deal the second Neo flew off into orbit while Rage Against The Machine did their thing. Everything about action films changed afterwards, from the way fights were choreographed to the way it opened the door for action movies with loftier ideas. But while the legacy of the original film is undeniable, and more prescient than ever–for both good and ill, given how its iconography’s been co-opted in recent years–we don’t often talk about the legacy of The Matrix Reloaded in the same hallowed tones. It’s understandable to an extent. Everything audiences thought was cool about the original Matrix in 1999 had been stripmined for parts by a legion of movies immediately after, with diminishing returns every single time. Given carte blanche to avoid their creation from treading the same ground, Lana and Lilly Wachowski chose to expand the universe they created in ways that resembled an Eastern philosophy-flavored Star Trek more than, say, Blade or Underworld.
That’s not a comment on quality–time has smiled on all four Matrix films much more kindly than most of their contemporaries–but it is a comment on how a classic had transitioned to becoming a big-budget all-encompassing megalith of a property, constantly in danger of losing what was special about the original. This was the subtext of the still-underrated Matrix Resurrections, in fact. But to this day, even the biggest megablockbusters on the planet have failed to even attempt what the Wachowskis pulled off in the wake of Matrix Reloaded to keep its power despite capitalism needing to wring it dry. Ancillary media is nothing new altogether, but before The Matrix Reloaded, anything that didn’t happen on-screen during the film was just a cool, non-canon “what if.” Because the Matrix sequels had such a muted reaction compared to the original, it’s easy to forget just how much of an absolute multimedia circus surrounded The Matrix Reloaded before its release. Sponsorships were everywhere, songs from the soundtrack were ubiquitous on rock radio, books were being written about the philosophy of the original film. All of that was there, and it all only touched the fringes of what The Matrix actually was or where it was going. But The Matrix was far too important and far too intricate to let any serious work bearing its name cheapen it in any way. And so, in the middle of an absolute marketing blitzkrieg, we got two pieces of media that changed how stories could be told in the 21st century.
Astronomers observe the largest energy explosion ever detected in the universe
This Is the Quietest Sound in the Universe
Meg Foster Returns to He-Man with Masters of the Universe: Revolution
When Masters of the Universe: Revelation premiered on Netflix back in 2021, it turned out to be…actually not half bad. Instead of being an easy dip into the nostalgia well like it initially sounded like, the show was a fun, if flawed, return to the canon of the 1983 series that had grown with its audience and taken…
Will Bing and Edge become the center of the Microsoft universe?
Microsoft has long failed in Internet search and browsing. The company has spent plenty of time, money, marketing and development resources to catch up — to no avail.
In search, Google has a stranglehold with 85% of the worldwide search market share in the first quarter of 2023, compared to 9% for Bing. In browsing, Edge fares even worse: it accounts for a 5% market share compared to 64% for Chrome and 20% for Safari. That’s a far cry from 2003, when Internet Explorer had a 95% market share.
Expanding the La Borinqueña Universe | io9 Interview
Watchmen Creator Damon Lindelof “Was Asked To Leave The Star Wars Universe”
Damon Lindelof, creator of The Leftovers and Watchmen on HBO, used to be one of writers on the screenplay for the upcoming Star Wars film that focuses on Rey’s Jedi academy after the the events of the new trilogy. Now he isn’t.
“I joined the ‘Star Wars’ universe, and was asked to leave the Star Wars universe,” Lindelof quipped in a video interview on Esquire. But he wanted to be clear that he’s not holding a grudge about it.
“Will I get back in line outside the club and try to get back in again? Absolutely.”
Honkai: Star Rail Simulated Universe guide
How to play in Herta’s Simulated Universe