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Ready Player One Author Gives First Look at His Metaverse Battle Royale Game
Earlier this year, author Ernst Cline announced that his company would be launching a metaverse company. What made this deeply ironic was that Cline famously wrote Ready Player One, the popular science fiction novel about a dystopia where people escape the harsh realities of their world by plugging into a metaverse-like gaming environment. Now, as…
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Last Action Hero Is an Underappreciated Time Capsule of Meta-Movie-Magic
“Last Action Hero is a joyless, soulless machine of a movie. An $US80 (A$108) million-plus mishmash of fantasy, industry in-jokes, self-referential parody, film-buff gags, and too-big action set-pieces.” That’s what the Hollywood trade Variety wrote in late 1992 just before the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led, John McTiernan-directed, self-referential action film was released. Looking back, it’s definitely one…
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Ready Player One’s Book Sequel Has a Release Date, I Guess
The dystopian ode to nostalgia and pop culture references is returning. Ready Player One author Ernest Cline has a release date for Ready Player Two, his book sequel that’s been in the works for years… and enters a world that’s kinda over the whole thing.
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Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Is Working On A Movie About A Robot Family In Peril
If there’s one thing worth fighting for, it’s family. Even if — especially if? — that family is made of loving, preternaturally caring robots.