These re-releases are going to be expensive, due to the cost of the remastering. Getting each season as it comes out (at roughly six month intervals) mitigates that cost, rather than having to drop an eye-watering amount when all seven seasons are out (which won't be until 2015 anyway, apparently).

I don't think the full enormity of the remastering project has been described accurately. This is the biggest digital remastering project in the history of Hollywood (according to the Okudas, and I can't see anything to compare to it) and has cost CBS tens of millions of dollars. It takes a team of dozens six months…

Each season takes about 6 months and several million dollars to fully re-master. They're releasing the sets a few months after they finish fully working on them.

Up above he points out that EA/BioWare's redoing of the ending to MASS EFFECT 3 is a concerning precedent. So either he isn't EA or he's doing a great job of confusing us :-)

Almost certainly not. The only thing I've seen them doing is using the slightly tweaked translation from the later PS1 edition of the game (the one that correctly uses 'Aerith' rather than 'Aeris'). Otherwise it sounds like it'll be identical to the original PC release from 1998, only made compatible with modern…

People have been complaining quite a bit about the ending of KotOR2 for the last 7 years. However, at least that was explained by LucasArts screwing over the development team by suddenly ordering that the game be finished months ahead of their original schedule. And some fans have gone back and patched the ending up…

There's Dany and Aegon VI (if he's legit). The other possibility is that it could descend to Stannis (who is the grandson of a Targaryen princess) and he might qualify. Otherwise there's the tedious 'Tyrion is a Targaryen' theory which I am not a fan of. Otherwise there may be a Targ bastard that Viserys perhaps sired…

"How is it that by some miracle a batshit insane ruler who had a penchant for burning people alive and let virtually no one near him had the ability to father a child miraculously in the final month of his life while heavily besieged?"

1) The familiar xenos existed before the Engineers on LV-223 were wiped out. I suspect they are a natural species and the fun times in PROMETHEUS are the result of an attempt by the Engineers to replicate them with genetic engineering that hasn't worked out. As a result, the xenos can be all over the galaxy, involved…

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Some interesting factoids I discovered for a blog article:

Different Engineer, different ship, different planet and different time.

True, although it should be noted that all of the episodes, even GRRM's, are subsequently re-written and redrafted by the producers David Benioff and DB Weiss. In the case of this episode, the rewrites were apparently more extensive because they kept changing the scale of the episode based on how much money they had.

It wasn't $25 million. It would have been awesome if it had been (IIRC, the cost of the Battle of Helm's Deep by itself in LotR was around that ballpark). Each episode of GAME OF THRONES costs around $6 million. HBO gave them an extra $9 million for not just the battle but also the extra CGI of the direwolves and…

NEW VEGAS is its own thing using the FO3 engine. It's not FALLOUT 4. More like how VICE CITY is related to GTA3: bigger, better, but still the same game at heart and not a 'proper' sequel. FALLOUT 4 will probably be Bethesda's project, probably their next one after the SKYRIM DLC and expansions are all done.

A variation on this could work. Not the free bit, but I wouldn't be surprised if Valve one day pulled a Radiohead and said, "Right, it's done and it'll be out in four days. Cheers." And then they actually release it a day early anyway :-)

"Fallout 5"

The latest version is called CYBERPUNK v3, which wouldn't make much sense. The previous title was CYBERPUNK 2020, so a variation on that could work. Not the first edition, which was called CYBERPUNK 2013, which might confuse people if it's not out until after that year :-)

It's based on a roleplaying game called CYBERPUNK, published back in 1988 when the term wasn't quite as overused as it is now. So I suspect it will be called that, maybe with a subtitle of some kind.

Frustration may increase when you learn that Paradox and Bethesda both talked to GRRM's people about making the official game, that senior designers at Relic talked about it and that BioWare nearly made an MMORPG proposal before THE OLD REPUBLIC came up.