Blog Archive: February 2022

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Ion Sci-Fi 22 Feb

In this week’s edition, Doctor Strange is back to fix the multiverse, Steam shows off upcoming games, new time-bending sci-fi from the UK and the first technical category for the Ion Sci-Fi Awards.

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Another Life Canned

Another Life won't get another season.

Star Katee Sackhoff revealed the news via a tweet.

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Doctor Who Easter

Radio Times report a confirmed Easter release for Doctor Who's second of three 2022 specials based on a notation from that episode director's website.

Looking at her website now we can't find this. It only details that she directed the "spring special".

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Prodigy on Binge

As part of their mid january multi-series announcement, Paramount included a detail in Star Trek: Prodigy's footnote which we didn't fully appreciate.

That it was coming to Nickelodeon international (i.e. outside of the US) channels.

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Is This a Lightsaber?

Destiny 2's trailer caused a stir for its inclusion of something which looks suspiciously like a lightsaber and in Netflix's new clip from The Adam Project, young Adam pulls a small tubular device from old Adam's bag and asks, "Is this a lightsaber?"

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Is That You?

In an interview Patrick Stewart has not answered the question.

But he has revealed that on the evening of the Super Bowl during which the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness advertisement ran, he received many communications from friends and also people he hardly knew, asking the question.

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NASA-Punk Starfield

Closing out our week heavy in major sci-fi game releases and news, Bethesda have released a concept art trailer for their upcoming and highly anticipated space roleplaying game, Starfield.

With it they also announced an art giveaway for which you need to register as a member of their Constellation Group.

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The Boys Diabolical

Amazon have set a March 4 premiere date and released a trailer for The Boys Presents: Diabolical.

Even being a fan of The Boys and having seen other adult animated programming, this two and a half minute trailer left us wide-eyed.

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Red Solstice 2 - Condatis

505 Games have released a trailer for Red Solsice 2: Survivors' latest DLC titled Condatis Group.

It's not a game we're familiar with and in a week laden with Super Bowl trailers and major sci-fi game releases this one almost didn't make the cut for us.

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Peacemaker Renewed

HBO's Peacemaker has been renewed for a second season and finished it's first on a true high with viewership up 44% from the premiere. It was also the best single day performance for any HBO Max original.

For anyone unfamiliar with typical viewer patterns, the norm is for significant drop off over the first few episodes - people checking out a new show and deciding it's not for them - then slow decline.

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