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Hari Seldon failed to predict the battle pass (Foundation: Galactic Frontier heads for Steam).
Hari Seldon's psychohistory could forecast the fall of a Galactic Empire to within a decade, but it never saw the battle pass coming.
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Dead-End Job clocks in at No. 2 on Netflix’s global chart, proving the gig economy really is a horror show (TV news).
Korean horror Dead-End Job hits No. 2 on Netflix's global chart and tops 14 countries. Lee Jae-wook's deadly part-time jobs, the reviews and…
NewsHorror
Clayface out-grosses The Substance, and Hollywood discovers there’s money in melting faces (film news).
Clayface passes The Substance to become the highest-grossing body-horror film, with $83m worldwide on a $44m budget. Hideo Kojima approves.
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Rings of Power, Blade Runner 2099 and Stephen King’s Institute: November is the month genre TV turns up all at once (TV news).
Rings of Power season 3, Blade Runner 2099, The Institute season 2, Percy Jackson and more: the big genre TV premieres arriving in…
NewsScifi
Robopocalypse: the robot uprising too expensive for Spielberg reboots as a Ron Howard TV series (TV news).
Ron Howard will direct the pilot of a Robopocalypse TV series, with Akiva Goldsman as showrunner, after Spielberg's film version collapsed.
TrailerGames
Fate of the Galaxy: the free Star Wars dogfighter that spent nineteen years in the hangar (trailer).
Fan-made Star Wars space combat sim Fate of the Galaxy, built on FreeSpace 2, is out free for PC, Mac and Linux after…
NewsHorror
Oh Hai, Dagon: Tommy Wiseau Goes Lovecraftian in Silt.
Tommy Wiseau guards a lake holding "the genes of the Gods" in the first trailer for cosmic horror thriller Silt.
NewsDoctor Who
John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary).
John Leeson, the actor who gave Doctor Who’s robot dog K9 his clipped, faintly pompous and thoroughly lovable voice, has died at the…
NewsScifi
Apex Legends: a 16-second teaser full of glowing blue spines has players shouting ‘Godzilla’ (games news).
Watch the teaser on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5QiH6x7U160, or on X: https://x.com/PlayApex/status/2117059421834481853 Something large is apparently swimming towards the Outlands. On Sunday night the official…
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The Body: Netflix sends a Catholic-school dance troupe to the Devil for a place at regionals (TV news).
Watch the trailer on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl7uj7n7DoY Every dance team needs a routine that will impress the judges at regionals. The Lions, the badly…
NewsScifi
Pluribus season 2: Vince Gilligan’s hive mind clocks back on in Albuquerque, on Halloween (TV news).
Halloween in Albuquerque usually means plastic pumpkins and the odd tourist asking for directions to Walter White’s car wash. This year it also…
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Bartlet Fairy Basslet: Claymore’s Norihiro Yagi returns with a sword princess and a fish from the sky (manga news).
Norihiro Yagi, the man who gave the 2000s its moodiest silver-eyed swordswomen in Claymore, has a new series out, and it begins with…
ReviewComics
Suicide Squad: The Nightshade Odyssey by John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell and Bob Lewis (graphic novel review).
‘Suicide Squad: The Nightshade Odyssey’ isn’t just stories from their own title but others like ‘Millennium’ and ‘Secret Origins’, with a lot of…
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Captain America #16: Doctor Doom repossesses Hell, voids Mephisto’s contracts, and Spider-Man fans start eyeing One More Day (comic news, spoilers).
Spoilers: in Captain America #16, Doctor Doom takes over Hell and declares Mephisto's deals void, which has Spider-Man fans wondering about One More…
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