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. The uploader has now removed the original version featuring Elisabeth Sladen’s AI likeness. DigitalogMedia says the version now online is the reworked edition,… ColonelFrog / 2 Nov 2026
NewsFantasy God of War: Dave Bautista bulks up 20lb for Kratos, and Amazon reshoots everything from before the recast (TV news). Dave Bautista has gained 20lb to play Kratos in Amazon's God of War series, with Ronald D. Moore reshooting the scenes made before… ColonelFrog / 3 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 Prix Utopiales 2026: Claire North and RJ Barker win in Nantes, and Britain forgets to send a reporter (awards news). Claire North's Slow Gods wins the 2026 Prix Utopiales in Nantes, and RJ Barker's The Bone Ships takes the Prix Julia Verlanger. ColonelFrog / 3 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
NewsComics Ben Wang in talks to play Iceman as Marvel’s new X-Men roster nears freezing point (movie news). Karate Kid: Legends star Ben Wang is in talks to play Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, in Jake Schreier's X-Men for Marvel Studios, due… ColonelFrog / 3 Nov 2026
