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Paramount has optioned the rights to immersive role-playing game Alice Is Missing, with Becca Gleason, a writer and consulting producer on Amazon’s just-released YA series The Summer I Turned Pretty, attached to direct and co-write the adaptation.

Joining Gleason to co-write is Spenser Starke, the designer of the game published by Hunters Entertainment, the tabletop game studio behind popular RPGs such as The Altered Carbon RPG, Kids on Bikes, Icarus and Outbreak: Undead.

Temple Hill, the banner behind major YA movies ranging from the recent Emergency and The Fault in Our Stars to franchise plays such as The Maze Runner and Twilight, will produce along with Gleason.

Alice is an immersive and so-called silent RPG played entirely via text message. The premise involves the disappearance of a teen named Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the small town of Silent Falls.

YouTube star Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry nerd-leaning media company is feteing International Tabletop Day (Ittd) -- a digital and in-person gathering celebration of all things board games -- with a new Vr film created by Light Sail Vr and the Google Daydream team.

Titled Now Your Turn and shot in VR180, the series transports viewers within the midst of various board game showdowns between top Geek & Sundry personalities, like Ivan Van Norman and Becca Scott -- giving them the sense that they are at the table, too. The series, which can be viewed via Google Cardboard headsets or via the YouTube Vr app with a Daydream View, will highlight popular titles including Crafty Games’ Nosh, Gigamic Games’ Yogi, and Renegade’s Topiary. Additional episodes will roll out every Friday until April 28 -- the date of Geek & Sundry's seventh annual Ittd.

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Ittd Unites Hundreds of Thousands of Gamers Worldwide Through Local Retail and Online EventsExciting Exclusive Products for Some of the World’s Most Popular Games Available at Participating Retailers

Warm up those dice and dust off your meeples! International Tabletop Day (Ittd), the worldwide celebration of the tabletop gaming and community, will take place this Saturday, April 29, 2017. Ittd is the first and only board gaming holiday – a global celebration unites hundreds of thousands of gamers around the world, both in person and through the Geek & Sundry digital network. Presented by Geek & Sundry, this year’s event will feature a 18-hour live stream, a website featuring over 1,700 global events, countless special guests, and a charity stream for Extra Life, which has raised over $30 million for sick children in local hospitals since its inception in 2008.

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The convention center won’t be the only place to see your favorite stars in San Diego next week. Legendary Digital Networks returns to Petco Park July 20th–24th. Nerdist and Geek & Sundry will be on hand to host panels with the cast and crew of genre shows and films including Fear The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Adam Wingard’s The Woods, Preacher, and more:

Press Release:Los Angeles, CA (July 13, 2016) – Legendary Digital Networks will once again head down to San Diego for a 4-day takeover of Petco Park for a third year for Camp Conival: a trip back in time to everything that you loved about summer camp. Headlined by Nerdist and Geek & Sundry, programming highlights include panels and interviews with some of the biggest names in entertainment. Confirmed talent stopping by Camp Conival include: Luc Besson (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Misha Collins, Cara...