Something for everyone.
A recent string of announcements of games being made into series for tv and streaming have been made with Fallout leading the charge.
Amazon Studios released a teaser for what looks to be a TV series based on the Fallout series of games, in conjunction with Bethesda Softworks. Check it below:
Not much has been released about the upcoming series, but the creators of the TV adaptation of Westworld, Jonathon Nolan and Lisa Joy, are confirmed to be working on the project. No release date has been set.
Fans of Ninjala are able to to learn more about the game’s world and characters. A series of animated tie-ins are slated to go up on the game’s YouTube account. You can check out the “Episode 0” below.
Cult classic The World Ends With You–first released on the Nintendo DS–will be receiving an anime series on Funimation next year. The anime looks to follow the game’s storyline including ominous countdowns and uncontrolled powers though the pins, themselves, didn’t appear in the debut trailer.
Finally, Persona fans seem to always have something to celebrate, and this week it’s the announcement of PERSONA5 The Anime coming to Blu-Ray in the US, Canada, Central and South America. The series is dubbed in both English and Japanese, featuring 28 total episodes, and the package comes with an illustrated card set.
From the release:
Ren Amamiya is about to enter his second year of high school after transferring to Shujin Academy in Tokyo. A strange incident triggers the awakening of his Persona, and alongside his friends, he forms the “Phantom Thieves of Hearts” to change the hearts of corrupt adults by stealing the source of their distorted desires. Meanwhile, cases of psychotic breakdowns have been popping up one after another… Living their ordinary high school lives in Tokyo during the day, the group stalks the bustling metropolis of Tokyo as the Phantom Thieves by night. It’s time for the curtains to rise on this grand, picaresque story!
–With files from Aaron Hudspeth and Evan McIntosh.