Hasta La Motion!

It was revealed back in 2014 that Sony Pictures was working on several Spider-Man spin off movies, some of which focused on the villains like Sinister Six and his super-foe, Venom. This was back when Sony was initially planning to collaborate with Marvel for the Spider-Man franchise.

Although, the Sinister Six based movie has been scrapped, Venom seems to have made it through the cycle. A stand-alone movie featuring Venom will be releasing on 5 October, 2018, according to Variety.
The character of Venom was primarily introduced in 1988 through the Amazing Spider-Man comics. Venom appeared to be a seemingly harmless suit worn by Spider-Man, however, it turned out to be an alien symbiote which attaches itself to the host. The creature has also hosted a few of Spider-Man’s (Peter Parker) enemies like Eddie Brock and Flash Thompson and Scorpion, Mac Gargan.

The last time Venom was seen on the big screen was in Spider-Man 3 of 2007, where Topher Grace donned the mantle of Eddie Brock.

What is to be seen is whether the movie will be taking place in the backdrop of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or will be made in tandem of Tom Holland’s version of Spider-Man. Spider-Man: Homecoming which is the next stand-alone movie for the wall-crawler will hit theatres on 7 July, 2017.

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“It has been an incredible, exciting journey. In 1997 we were clearly too early for the market, but we were so driven by the challenge and excitement of the games industry and becoming India’s first game developer. Our name, Dhruva, is the name of the north star, the star that shows the way we have strived to lead by example all these years, staying committed to Quality and Innovation in our work. After 10 years, the fire burns as strongly as ever. Today we renew our commitment to our vision of being India’s leading developer / publisher of games, at a time when the Indian market is just beginning to take off. It feels like we have only just begun!” exulted Dhruva Interactive, CEO, Rajesh Rao when he spoke to AnimationXpress on completing 10 years, back in 2007.

Rajesh Rao

This week (15 March), Dhruva Interactive turned 20. Initiating with a team of only five people, the company was the first in the country to delve into the console section. Some of the initial titles for them were Project Gotham Racing 3 (X360), Battlefield: Modern Combat (X360), Forza Motorsport (Xbox), Asterix & Obelix XXL2: Mission Las Vegum (PS2).  Forza has been one of the major franchises that the studio has worked on.

Rao is an integral part of the NASSCOM event, which is India’s biggest gaming conference. Last December, the company was acquired by Swedish game publisher, Starbreeze for $11 million. Dhruva has intensively worked on the art of Starbreeze’s IP, Payday 2.

The studio currently has three operating offices in the country, two in Bangalore and one in Dehradun and provides offerings in various areas and platforms of the gaming vertical.

With the studio still pushing forward towards more success, we wish them the very best on their future endeavours.

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Originally built in Flash (way back in good ol’ 2012), Jam3 have relaunched the Gold Cyber Lion Award-winning interactive documentary “Bear 71” as a WebVR experience, available to anyone with a Google Daydream-ready phone, Google Cardboard-ready phone, or through any modern phone or desktop browser as a standalone 360 experience.

The WebVR project was developed in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, Google, IDFA DocLab and Sound and Vision.

Launch “Bear 71”

Note: Google Chrome users should disable pop-up blocking before entering the experience

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