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Romantasy brings fantasy and romance together, with a central love story driving the plot. Magic, imagined worlds and emotional stakes share the stage.

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October 2026

29Oct 2026

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Seven Seas signs up a runaway mermaid and a retired hitwoman with a gacha habit for 2027 (manga and books news).

Seven Seas' latest licences include Yue Ben Du's mermaid cultivation romance Into the Sea, Fuyuki Izumida's hitwoman comedy Nighthawk, Once Again and a…

ColonelFrog29 Oct 2026

Bartlet Fairy Basslet: Claymore’s Norihiro Yagi returns with a sword princess and a fish from the sky (manga news).

ZX Spectrum history book loads in 98 minutes, no tape errors reported.

Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)

Death To The Deepfakes: Sladen’s Daughter Calls Time On AI Sarah Jane.

World of Warcraft: Forever: Blizzard reopens 2004’s Azeroth, with a thousand new quests and elves at extra cost (games news).

Oh Hai, Dagon: Tommy Wiseau Goes Lovecraftian in Silt.

Sanxingdui: Future Past: China’s first all-AI film warns of a world run by algorithms, and audiences decline to attend (film news).

Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news).

Apex Legends: a 16-second teaser full of glowing blue spines has players shouting ‘Godzilla’ (games news).

Physint at Beyond the Strand: Kojima shows his homework, and it looks suspiciously like Metal Gear (games).

Teghaza 001: a rose-pink rock from the Sahara turns out to be a 4.1-billion-year-old piece of Mars (science news).

John Leeson (1943–2026): the voice of K9, Rainbow’s first Bungle, and the Doctor’s most loyal companion (obituary).

Godzilla Minus Zero: the big lad turns 72 by stomping into Japanese cinemas, with America next on Friday (monster movie news).

Clayface Oozes To The Top, Warcraft Rolls For Initiative And Essen Runs Out Of Halls (Offworld Report, 22–31 October 2026).

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).

Fate of the Galaxy: the free Star Wars dogfighter that spent nineteen years in the hangar (trailer).

Bass X Machina: Netflix’s steampunk Bass Reeves rides in tomorrow, packing a mechanical West and Brian Tyree Henry (TV news).

Kamen Rider Valtz: the zodiac’s horse finally gallops into Kamen Rider MY-TH (tokusatsu).

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October 2026

Seven Seas signs up a runaway mermaid and a retired hitwoman with a gacha habit for 2027 (manga and books news).