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News Baldur’s Gate HBO Is Making a Baldur’s Gate 3 Series, and the Game’s Creators Aren’t Involved The show will pick up where Baldur’s Gate 3 left off but feature new characters and storylines By Matthew Byrd | Published on February 6, 2026 Screenshot: Larian Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Larian Studios Deadline reports that HBO is developing a TV adaptation of Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 with The Last of Us and Chernobyl co-creator Craig Mazin set to write, produce, and serve as showrunner for the series. Released in 2023 by Larian Studios, Baldur’s Gate 3 resurrected the Baldur’s Gate gaming franchise, which was started by the legendary RPG studio, BioWare. Set in the Forgotten Realms (which is part of the Dungeons & Dragons universe), Baldur’s Gate 3 sees players create a protagonist and then throw them into a massive world filled with compelling characters, dangerous creatures, and countless storytelling possibilities. Though initially considered to be something of a niche project due to both the dense nature of the franchise and Larian’s previous projects, Baldur’s Gate 3 went on to be one of the most acclaimed and successful titles in recent gaming history. It’s no exaggeration to suggest it may be the greatest role-playing video game ever made, and its many, many fans include Mazin himself. “After putting nearly 1000 hours into the incredible world of Baldur’s Gate 3, it is a dream come true to be able to continue the story that Larian and Wizards of the Coast created,” says Mazin. “I am a devoted fan of D&D and the brilliant way that Swen Vincke and his gifted team adapted it. I can’t wait to help bring Baldur’s Gate and all of its incredible characters to life with as much respect and love as we can, and I’m deeply grateful to Gabe Marano and his team at Hasbro for entrusting me with this incredibly important property.” Mazin’s involvement with The Last of Us seemingly makes him an obvious candidate for this job, but the devil is very much in the details in this instance. While HBO’s The Last of Us series has thus far been an adaptation of Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part 2 (with certain creative liberties taken along the way), HBO’s Baldur’s Gate series is being described as a continuation of the events of Baldur’s Gate 3. It will feature new characters and storylines, but it will also advance the adventures of many of the major characters from Baldur’s Gate 3 (it’s not believed the show will draw from the prior Baldur’s Gate games more than what is needed for the purposes of lore and world-building). While there are some questions regarding which of Baldur’s Gate 3‘s numerous possible endings the show will draw from, the set-up seemingly affords the show’s team with relative creative freedom. With no Baldur’s Gate 4 in development and the events of Baldur’s Gate 3 behind them, the show’s team will have the chance to tell a fairly fresh story in this universe. It remains to be seen whether that much creative freedom will help or hinder the series’ writers, but it’s certainly worth noting that those writers will not include members of Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios. Yes, Deadline reports (and Larian Studios confirms) that the developers have no official creative involvement with the HBO series. While the show’s crew will include people close to the series (most notably Chris Perkins, the former Head of Story at Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast), much of the team responsible for making Baldur’s Gate 3 one of the most acclaimed games in recent memory will not be a significant part of this production. That is certainly unusual when compared to some of the more successful recent video game adaptations like Fallout and The Last of Us, which notably featured substantial involvement from various members of those games’ creative teams. It’s also worth noting that Baldur’s Gate 3 was a true passion project for Larian Studios that required years of meticulous development as well as years of the studio making Baldur’s Gate-like titles that proved their credentials. Not involving them in this process is a risky move that has drawn mixed reactions from some Larian team members. Larian Studios’ CEO Swen Vincke said he’s eager to chat with Mazin and offer whatever thoughts and help he can, while Larian’s Director of Publishing Michael Douse went on a bit of a social media rant that included the line “I genuinely don’t think anyone can trump our writers.” To be fair, we do not know who will ultimately write HBO’s Baldur’s Gate series beyond Mazin himself. So far as that goes, it’s possibly worth noting that Mazin enjoyed an… unusual career prior to launching his HBO series, which includes writing credits on Scary Movie 3, Scary Movie 4, The Hangover sequels, and the 1997 Harland Williams comedy RocketMan. Tonally, Chernobyl and The Last of Us are obviously pretty far removed from those works, but it will be fascinating to see which direction Mazin ultimately takes this particular series in given that Baldur’s Gate titles are traditionally filled with more light-hearted elements that balance out all the drama, conflict, and intrigue. The task is certainly tall, but the potential is undeniable. Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the most faithful digital adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons ever made. Among other things, that means it faithfully recreated the experience of throwing a group of fresh characters into a dynamic world and embracing the beautiful chaos of the stories that are told along the way. The HBO series will reportedly focus on a cast of new characters navigating the world left behind by the major events of Baldur’s Gate 3, which is roughly how the great Baldur’s Gate and D&D stories of the past kicked off. Though Larian proved themselves to be uniquely gifted storytellers in this world, perhaps a new group of adventurers will (as many D&D players of the past have done) eventually find their own way. There’s no further information regarding this adaptation’s production schedule or any significant additions to its creative team, but we’ll keep you updated as soon as we learn more. 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Movies & TV Scarlet Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet Gives Us a Gender-Swapped, Purgatorial Hamlet I’m not sure which afterlife includes the GIANT FLYING ELECTRICITY DRAGON, but I want to go to that one. By Leah Schnelbach | Published on February 6, 2026 Credit: STUDIO CHIZU Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: STUDIO CHIZU Scarlet is a new anime from Mamoru Hosoda, director of Mirai, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Belle. I got to see it during the New York Film Festival, but it’s hitting U.S. theaters this weekend (including IMAX in a few places). Like Belle it focuses on the point of view of a young woman in a retelling of a classic tale, in this case, Hamlet. Scarlet (Mana Ashida) is the Princess of Denmark, and lives happily with her father, King Amleth (Masachika Ichimura), and less happily with her scheming mother Gertrude (Yutaka Matsushige). When her uncle Claudius (Kōji Yakusho) murders her father in order to marry Gertrude and rule the kingdom, the young girl plots revenge. Unlike in the original play, she’s extremely proactive in her plan, with little of the original Hamlet’s self-sabotage. But her plan goes awry, and she ends up dead, trapped in a terrifying afterlife, while Claudius and Gertrude rule together in blissful evil. Mamoru Hosoda sat down and said “Sure Hamlet’s great, but could it be better? What if I gender swap it and make it play out in an unsettling purgatory, whose rules are unknowable, with the threat of dissolving into nothingness always seconds away? And while I’m at it, maybe I’ll interrogate the idea of vengeance itself, and ask whether maybe humans should try to break the cycle of unending violence before we destroy ourselves?” It sounds incredible, and parts of it are—but I’m not sure that it lives up to its extraordinary premise. I’m not sure if it even could. Credit: STUDIO CHIZU But the parts of this film that work are incredible. The animation is gorgeous. At some points it’s an excellent epic anime, at others it becomes a sort of photorealistic landscape that feels utterly alien. At others, hilariously, Hosoda uses the clean, simple style of a slice-of-life anime series, that serves to highlight the strangeness of the afterlife he’s created. Also there’s a giant flying electricity dragon—any movie with a giant flying electricity dragon is worth my time. The other fun thing in this otherworld, where time is pretty meaningless, and life and death coexist, is that a lot of the problems of earthly life have carried over. Bandits teem across vast deserts attacking and looting caravans of people. And there is the constant threat of violence; if you’re injured badly enough in this otherworld, you dissolve into nothingness. We see this sequence many times over the course of the film, sometimes showing people who are at peace with their ending, and other times with people who claw to remain conscious. Hamlet provides the spine: Claudius’ betrayal of his brother Amleth is the catalyst for the whole story, characters from the play show up in various remixed forms, and several of Shakespeare’s iconic scenes are used in new ways. Scarlet herself is an instantly compelling character, maybe even more so than her original—it’s hard to watch someone come back to consciousness after death and fight their way through piles of rotting corpses without rooting for them. I think one of the strengths of the film is that it isn’t bound to Hamlet, however. It uses it as a springboard. The film’s afterlife is both exciting and existentially terrifying, at least at first. There doesn’t seem to be much order to it, no rules, no Handbook for the Recently Deceased. The landscape is desolate and beautiful, and when the electricity dragon appears, it’s to hurl lightning bolts down upon the souls below. This seems to be kind of a punishment? But the morality isn’t really explained. Everyone in this purgatorial state is at risk of being killed again by roving bandits, at which point they seem to truly and completely disappear, and there’s also the sense that a person might simply dissolve after a while. This sets a certain kind of stakes, but the problem is that as the film goes along, it drains a little of the mystery from the film, since since you’re basically watching characters who are in constant physical danger, and hoping they don’t die—the same way you’d hope that with living characters. I wanted the stakes to be a bit different for dead people in another realm. Credit: STUDIO CHIZU Soon after waking to this new kind of consciousness, Scarlet meets a paramedic named Hijiri (Masaki Okada). The young man insists he isn’t actually dead. He’s also dressed in casual 21st Century clothing, carries a modern medical valise, and is clearly from something more like our era. Scarlet is confused, and sometimes offended, by Hijiri’s upbeat outlook on life. She’s frustrated by his habit of stopping to help anyone who needs it. For her, the quest for vengeance is all-consuming, and the people she meets in the afterlife are either vehicles or obstacles for revenge. As you can probably guess, this becomes one of the main tensions of the story. Scarlet’s worldview is dark, violent, and bitter. She sees herself as a weapon, and can’t imagine the kind of life Hijiri describes to her, where people try to help and support each other, and there’s time for music and fun. The other tension, of course, is Scarlet’s quest to find her nefarious uncle in the afterlife and destroy him. So what if time passes differently on the other side, and almost everyone who ever cared about this fight is now in the afterlife, or just… gone? So what if Scarlet’s own father, the betrayed king, long ago passed into nothingness? Scarlet’s mission has to transcend everything else, right? Credit: STUDIO CHIZU That’s why we love the story—the catharsis of watching Hamlet kill his uncle in the final moments before his own tragic death—right? Hosoda tries to use this classic tragedy to explore the tragedy of vengeance as a concept. By moving the action to an afterlife, he underlines how wasteful the original story is: Hamlet, a young man of many talents, popular with his people, with great friends, spends the last months of his life on murder and dies without accomplishing anything but his vengeance. Scarlet, a young woman of many talents, is murdered by the same man who murdered her father, and rather than using her afterlife to find some sort of new adventure, she rededicates herself to the earthly mission that got her killed. For a time the film seems to be trying to explode that plot, to show Scarlet different ways of being. But sometimes the discussion between Scarlet and Hijiri gets much too heavy-handed, and sometimes the film paints itself into a corner once the battle between Claudius and Scarlet moves into the otherworldly realm. I think my sticking point is just the opening of the film promises a story that will take us in a lot of different directions, but a lot of the plot comes down to swordfights and battles—just like the original Hamlet. But having said that, the ending of the film is complicated and deeply moving, and I still think this is an audacious and often moving work, and a fascinating adaptation of Hamlet as well. Anime fans, Shakespeare fans, and especially devotees of Hosoda’s work will find a lot to love in Scarlet.[end-mark] The post Mamoru Hosoda’s <em>Scarlet</em> Gives Us a Gender-Swapped, Purgatorial <em>Hamlet</em> appeared first on Reactor.

It may seem that it’s impossible to get anything done in Washington these days. Nevertheless, the free spirit of Americans cannot be suppressed. Americans are voting with their feet. Per the Census Bureau’s just released annual report on population growth and migration in the U.S., Americans are packing up and moving from anti-growth blue states to pro-growth red states. Top five in population growth from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025: South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina, Delaware, Tennessee. Top five in population loss: New York, Hawaii, Alaska, District of Columbia, California. Seven of the 10 top growth states voted for Donald Trump in 2024.  Of the top 10 states losing population over the 12-month period, nine of the 10 voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. Those many Americans who still understand that freedom is the magic elixir that drives growth and prosperity are exiting blue states, leaving them to stew in their left-wing, socialist, low-growth and low-opportunity juices. Americans for Tax Reform breaks it down further. Comparing economic conditions in the states that gained population to those that lost: the marginal tax rate in population-losing states is on average 24.5% higher than in the population-gaining states; the average state and local tax collection in the population-losing states is 61% higher than in those gaining population; the average corporate tax rate in population-losing states is 44% higher than in those gaining population; and 60% of population-gaining states are right-to-work states — states that prohibit paying union dues as a condition for employment — compared to only 10% of population-losing states that are right-to-work. The Brennan Center has analyzed what the implications of this trend, if it continues on its current track, will mean regarding distribution of congressional seats after the 2030 census. The biggest gainers: Texas plus four seats and Florida plus three. The biggest loser: California minus four. The Brennan Center looks at what the change will be by region in 2030 compared with 2020.  The South would pick up nine seats, Northeast would lose four, Midwest and Plains states down three, Mountain states up three, and West down five. The Wall Street Journal estimates that this translates into a gain of 10 seats in states that voted for Trump in 2024. The U-Haul Growth Index, published once per year and released earlier this month, reporting results for 2025, shows essentially the identical picture. U-Haul summarizes transactions for the year — some 2.5 million — reporting net in-migrations and out-migrations for all states. Top five states for in-migration in 2025 were Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina. Per U-Haul, “Seven of the top ten growth states currently feature Republican governors, and nine of those states went red in the last presidential election.” States with the most people leaving are California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. Per U-Haul, “Nine of the bottom 10 growth states feature Democrat governors, and seven of those states went blue in the last presidential election.” Americans for Tax Reform also notes that nine of the top 10 growth states in the U-Haul Growth Index are right-to-work states. Among the bottom 10, none are right-to-work states — all are dominated by union control. The New York Times reports that, per New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, in the second quarter of 2025, 8,400 businesses closed compared with 3,500 that opened. New York’s new socialist mayor wants to tax corporations and wealthy New Yorkers to finance the city’s $12 billion budget deficit. Can there be any question what the result will be for the No. 1 population-losing state in the country? How about California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax proposal? Punishing success is a great formula for losing the successful. Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, Charles Schwab and Palantir Technologies are among the marquee corporations that have bid farewell to California. Want to know what Americans think? Watch their feet. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.  The post Americans Vote With Their Feet appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The FBI’s Jan. 28 raid on Fulton County, Georgia’s election offices was sorely needed. It should have happened in 2020. Americans should be proud of this country but ashamed of its Fourth World voting system. While Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has modernized Florida’s elections, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has light years to go before Georgians can feel equally confident about its votes. Greater Atlanta is the black hole in which election integrity goes to die.  “Fulton County’s voter rolls are, have been, and continue to be a complete mess,” Republican State Senator Greg Dolezal says in a jaw-dropping new video on X. In the Peach State, “it is illegal to be registered to vote from anywhere other than your primary residence.” As of Jan. 5, “about 70 people are registered to vote right here,” Dolezal marvels at a UPS Store. Dolezal visits 850 Oak Street. “There are 19 people registered to vote at this abandoned house,” he explains. Its windows are broken or boarded up. A brown and green blob of weeds and ivy slowly devours the front porch. Nineteen people do not live there. Nonetheless, that’s where they are registered to vote. Next: 1445 Woodmont Lane. Dolezal says that “138 people registered to vote here”–a virtual-mailbox enterprise called PhysicalAddress.com. “This is 477 Peachtree Street,” Dolezal states. “There are 70 people registered to vote here. It’s a homeless shelter that closed in 2017”–approaching nine years ago. At 2625 Piedmont Street, Dolezal observes: “Another UPS Store–96 registered voters here, in direct violation of Georgia law.” Such corruption should be alien to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. Yet here it is, in a mid-term election year, with Sen. Jon Ossoff’s, D-Ga., seat at stake and the GOP’s emaciated majority in play. Control of Congress could hinge on “voters” enrolled at homes populated solely by termites. The FBI absolutely should probe the perpetrators behind political lawbreaking. During the 2020 election, Fulton County was a full-blown crime scene. The Election Oversight Group LLC last month released a shocking document — “Fulton County: Report of Investigation of the 2020 General Election.” –“According to Fulton County and the State’s own records, 148,319 absentee ballots were counted for the 2020 General Election, but only 125,784 voters were recorded as casting ballots. Therefore, 22,535 more ballots were counted than voters given credit for voting.” That’s right: 22,535 more ballots than voters. That’s called stuffing ballots. If Joe Biden scored just 52.2% of these phony ballots, that would equal his statewide 11,769-vote “margin of victory.” –“It’s important to note that the number of absentee ballots literally doubled from midnight on Election Day, with 74,024 ballots reported,” the study states. “All 148,318 absentee ballots were accepted and counted without first performing mandatory signature verification.” –“Of all 376,863 ballots cast in-person (early voting and election day) every corresponding ballot image was willfully destroyed in violation of both state and federal law.” –“Thousands of ballots appear in the original November 3rd count that were not included in the recount, and thousands of ballots appear in the recount that were not in the original count.” –“Also, 3,930 ballots were intentionally scanned and counted twice.” –“Fulton County ordered 1,058,910 absentee ballots at the last minute, without envelopes, without stubs, and after they could have realistically been mailed.” This baffled current Fulton County Commissioner Bridget Thorne “Why would you order Emergency/Provisional ballots without the tear-off stubs that are needed for record keeping?” she asked via X on Nov. 10, 2021. “Dangerous, no accountability.”  –“According to the Election Assistance Commission (‘EAC’) Fulton County’s total number of registered voters for 2020 was 836,563, or 113.8 percent of the Citizen Voting Age Population (‘CVAP’): 1,058,910 ballots are 126% of the total number of registered voters in Fulton County.” Why didn’t a court address these outrages? National Review’s John Fund, co-author of “Our Broken Elections” (Encounter Books, 2021), blamed “a successful effort to delay any judge from hearing lawsuits challenging the results until Congress counted the Electoral College votes, and the issue was moot.” President Donald J. Trump and the GOP should ignore Democrat screams and battle past, current, and future vote fraud and the putrid conditions in which it festers. They should start by comparing voter rolls with property records, from coast to coast, and purging illegal addresses and corresponding vote registrations. Fulton County may be the first place the FBI has raided to promote electoral hygiene. It should not be the last. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.  The post FBI’s Fulton County Election Raid: Better Six Years Late Than Never appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump unveiled a new website seeking to offer Americans massively discounted prescription drugs. The website, TrumpRx.gov, offers “Most-Favored-Nation” prices on prescription drugs. “This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history, by many, many times, and it’s not even close,” Trump said Thursday night. “You can see numbers that you’re not going to believe.” “Americans have long been paying the highest drug prices anywhere in the world, while other countries often pay pennies on the dollar for the exact same drugs,” he added. “We were essentially subsidizing the entire world and subsidizing hundreds of billions of dollars every year.” Trump said the U.S. has 4% of the world’s population and consumes only 13% of all prescription drugs, but supplies 75% of Big Pharma’s revenue. “The American people were effectively subsidizing endorsement drugs for the entire world, and it’s not going to happen any longer,” he said. “We ended it.” U.S. chief design officer and Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia showed off the website where patients can obtain coupons to use at pharmacies. The website initially offers over 40 of the most popular expensive medications, but Trump said more will be added soon. Customers cannot use health insurance to buy the discounted drugs, which are accessible only through direct purchases. The discounts on weight loss drugs will cause Americans to lose 100 million pounds this year, “which is going to make not only folks a lot healthier, but a lot easier to manage when they do get help,” said Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Commissioner Dr. Mehmet Oz. “Novo Nordisk, will be slashing the price, an example is ozempic, from more than $1,000 to $199,” Trump said. Trump particularly touted discounts to the most common in vitro fertilization drugs. “For example, a single dose of the most common IVF drug in the country, Gonal F, will plummet from the highest price in the developed world that we pay,” he said. “I’m particularly drawn, as I know you are, to the plight of folks, young couples, trying to have children, and that first medication, one of the first ones you did most favored drug pricing on, is an immense help to a number of folks,” Oz said. The post Trump Unveils Drug Savings Website ‘Trump Rx’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.