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Call of Duty Modern Warfare four is nearly here, with the campaign launching in early access ahead of the full release on October twenty-third, two thousand twenty six. Critics are already weighing in, and notably the game arrives on Nintendo's Switch two alongside other platforms, with platform-specific impressions already circulating online.
On a very different creative note, South Africa's Oscar submission this year comes with an unusual production story. The film's score was partially composed using Microsoft Excel — yes, the spreadsheet software. Co-director Devon Delmar revealed the detail at the BFI London Film Festival, where the film is generating serious awards conversation.
And in visual effects, the team behind Project Hail Mary is opening up about the film's most demanding challenge — convincing zero gravity. VFX supervisor Paul Lambert, speaking in Turin, said zero-G was his single biggest personal concern on the entire production, requiring extensive work to make Ryan Gosling's weightless sequences feel genuinely real rather than theatrical.
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