NewsFantasy 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… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsBooks ZX Spectrum history book loads in 98 minutes, no tape errors reported. The Rubber-Keyed Wonder, Kim Justice's 45th-anniversary history of the ZX Spectrum, hit its Kickstarter target in 98 minutes. Last orders close on 2… ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
ReviewCri-Fi Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review) Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is… UncleGeoff / 12 Oct 2026
NewsCulture Death To The Deepfakes: Sladen’s Daughter Calls Time On AI Sarah Jane. ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube The uploader has now removed the original version featuring Elisabeth Sladen’s AI likeness.… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy World of Warcraft: Forever: Blizzard reopens 2004’s Azeroth, with a thousand new quests and elves at extra cost (games news). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the cinematic on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXaXYxcbA6A Blizzard has spent twenty-odd years teaching players… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
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. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Sanxingdui: Future Past: China’s first all-AI film warns of a world run by algorithms, and audiences decline to attend (film news). China's first fully AI-generated feature, Sanxingdui: Future Past, is about a future enslaved by AI. It cost $1.5m and took about $180,000 in… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news). Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali in 2022, is a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars with evidence of ancient water, a NASA-led study… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Apex Legends: a 16-second teaser full of glowing blue spines has players shouting ‘Godzilla’ (games news). ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Watch the teaser on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5QiH6x7U160, or on X: https://x.com/PlayApex/status/2117059421834481853 Something large is… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsCons Physint at Beyond the Strand: Kojima shows his homework, and it looks suspiciously like Metal Gear (games). Kojima Productions' tenth-anniversary show in Tokyo puts Physint's 150-page script, five Bill Skarsgård busts and some very familiar mechs on display. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news). Teghaza 001, a meteorite found in Mali in 2022, is a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars with evidence of ancient water, a NASA-led study… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
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… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news). Takashi Yamazaki's Godzilla Minus Zero opens in Japan on 3 November, Godzilla's 72nd birthday, and in North America via GKIDS on 6 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsOffworld Report Clayface Oozes To The Top, Warcraft Rolls For Initiative And Essen Runs Out Of Halls (Offworld Report, 22–31 October 2026). Clayface tops the box office, Yaga lands, D&D meets Warcraft, Essen sets a record and PSA's stolen cards get a checklist. Genre news,… ColonelFrog / 31 Oct 2026
NewsCulture Make it so, Ma’am: the Guards play Star Trek, NASA finds a starship and the West End dims its lights for Sir Patrick Stewart (news). West End theatres dim their lights for Sir Patrick Stewart at 7pm on 3 November, after a Guards band played Star Trek at… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
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… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news). LeSean Thomas's six-part steampunk western Bass X Machina, with Brian Tyree Henry as lawman Bass Reeves, premieres on Netflix on 3 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsAnime/manga Kamen Rider Valtz: the zodiac’s horse finally gallops into Kamen Rider MY-TH (tokusatsu). Toei unveils Kamen Rider Valtz, the horse of MY-TH's zodiac alliance and the first Rider built on a horse motif, with Bandai's toys… ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Orville scifi TV series: 3rd season review (video). CColonelFrog11 August 2022 · 1 min read Scifi · TV Button not showing? Add SFcrowsnest as a preferred source on Google The Orville (new scifi comedy TV: Galaxyquest-style). Nick has been watching The Orville‘s 3rd season on TV so you don’t have to. Is this what Star Trek used to be, and still should be – or simply a homage too far? Just like your grandmother’s Trek? ▶Play videoYouTube connects only when you press playWatch on YouTube Filed underScifi TVThe Orville ← Previous storyTime travel and warp drives, from the physicist they based Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future on (video interview).Next story →Michael Moorcock’s Elric Vol. 3: The White Wolf by Julien Blondel, Jean Luc-Cano, Julien Telo and Robin Recht (graphic novel review).
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… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news). LeSean Thomas's six-part steampunk western Bass X Machina, with Brian Tyree Henry as lawman Bass Reeves, premieres on Netflix on 3 November. ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Escape from Jurassic Park: Universal’s lost 1993 cartoon pitch climbs out of the amber (TV animation). The pitch trailer for Escape from Jurassic Park, Universal's cancelled prime-time cartoon of 1993, has surfaced after 33 years of private circulation. ColonelFrog / 1 Nov 2026
NewsScifi Sir Patrick Stewart (1940–2026): the captain’s final log. Sir Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard and X-Men's Professor X, has died aged 86. SFcrowsnest remembers him. ColonelFrog / 29 Oct 2026
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