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October 2026

26Oct 2026

NewsFantasy

Phantom Blade Zero reviews: the critics were given sixty-six days to live and spent them handing out nines (games news).

Phantom Blade Zero's review embargo has lifted: 88 on Metacritic, 91 on OpenCritic, perfect scores from PCGamesN and TheGamer, and one Eurogamer refusenik.

ColonelFrog26 Oct 2026

24Oct 2026

TrailerFantasy

Phantom Blade Zero: sixty-six days to live, Donnie Yen in his corner and a launch trailer that never stops to breathe (games news).

S-GAME's kungfupunk action RPG Phantom Blade Zero gets its launch trailer ahead of its PS5 and PC release on 28 October, with physical…

ColonelFrog24 Oct 2026

Inuyasha turns 30, and the Shikon Jewel is still in more pieces than a dropped Ming vase (manga news).

Everybody wants to be a Mind: why the AI bosses keep quoting Iain M. Banks, and what the Culture novels actually say (opinion).

Criminal teaser: Prime Video raids the Brubaker and Phillips back catalogue, and sensibly leaves the guns at home.

Man Of Two Worlds: My Life In Science Fiction And Comics by Julius Schwartz with Bryan M. Thomsen

Angela gets a new Marvel ongoing, and New York gets a demon problem it can’t blame on the rats (comics news).

DERELIKT brings the PS1’s wobbliest textures back to haunt a space station orbiting Saturn (games news).

We survived Doomsday: science said humanity would be squeezed to death yesterday, and science fiction got there first (science news).

We survived Doomsday: science said humanity would be squeezed to death yesterday, and science fiction got there first (science news).

Pluribus makes Mr Diabaté a series regular, the one promotion the hive mind couldn’t arrange (TV news).

Spy x Family Season 4 and a second film: Operation Strix has its budget renewed for 2027 (anime news).

We survived Doomsday: science said humanity would be squeezed to death yesterday, and science fiction got there first (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).

Spider-Man Gets Seven Extra Minutes, Scrooge Haunts The Box Office And A Horror Game Takes The Golden Joysticks (Offworld Report, 6–14 November 2026).

Make it so: Sir Patrick Stewart gets his own asteroid, (645530) Patrickstewart, and joins Kirk, Spock and Uhura in the belt (science news).

A long time ago, in a cinema near you: the 1977 Star Wars returns on 19 February, and Lucasfilm opens the vault on how it was made (film news).

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

Angela gets a new Marvel ongoing, and New York gets a demon problem it can’t blame on the rats (comics news).

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S-GAME

October 2026

Phantom Blade Zero reviews: the critics were given sixty-six days to live and spent them handing out nines (games news).

Phantom Blade Zero: sixty-six days to live, Donnie Yen in his corner and a launch trailer that never stops to breathe (games news).