Paramount Developing Call of Duty Movie Inspired by Top Gun: Maverick, Plus Game Pass & Fairgame$ Updates

Call of Duty Live-Action Film Development

• 🎬 Activision Blizzard and Paramount have officially announced a live-action Call of Duty feature film is in development.
• 🚀 Paramount CEO David Ellison stated the film will be approached with the same commitment to excellence that guided Top Gun: Maverick.
• ✅ Paramount has a mixed track record with video game adaptations, seeing commercial success with Sonic the Hedgehog films but fan backlash and cancellation for the Halo series.

Past Call of Duty Cinematic Universe Attempt

• 📅 A previous attempt in 2015 by Activision Blizzard to create a Call of Duty cinematic universe, with a film slated for 2020-2021, was put on indefinite hold in 2019 and is now considered abandoned.

Xbox Game Pass September Wave 1 Lineup

• 🎮 Subscribers can now play the cell-shaded FPS I Am Your Beast on Xbox Series, PC, or cloud.
• 💡 The highly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong headlines the September 4th releases for PC Game Pass, Ultimate, and Xbox, alongside the tower defense RTS Cataclismo.
• 🛠️ Other additions include the 2D platformer Nine Sols (Sept 3rd), Paw Patrol World (Sept 10th), and the physics-based construction game Roadcraft (Sept 16th).

Fairgame$ Project Faces Departures

• ⚠️ Sony's upcoming multiplayer project, Fairgame$, has seen the departure of its Creative Director, Daniel Drapeau, who moved to WB Games Montreal.
• 📌 This follows the earlier departure of Jade Raymond, founder of developer Haven Studios, earlier this year.
• 💬 Despite an industry analyst's retracted claim of cancellation, the project is officially still in development, though the departures raise concerns.