Blog Archive: February 2022

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Steam Next Fest

The Steam Next Fest is back and will run from February 21 - 28.

For those unfamiliar with the promotion, it's a week long demo and livestream festival for upcoming content.

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65 + 365

Mysterious sci-fi film 65 has been delayed a year to April 2023.

No reason was provided. That's another mystery.

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Real Gauss Rifle

The Drive have published a fascinating interview with a former US Air Force Research Laboratory engineer who has developed and is selling an electromagnetic rifle.

Gauss rifles had previously been the domain of science fiction and this GR-1 Anvil is advertised as the world's first handheld one.

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Submerged Hidden Depths

Originally developed as a Google Stadia exclusive by Canberra indie development studio Uppercut Games, Submerged: Hidden Depths is coming soon to PC (Steam), Xbox and Playstation.

Not just generically soon either. They've just set a date. March 10.

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Fargo First

FX chief John Landgraf has announced that their upcoming Alien series won't be shot until after Fargo's season 5, though showrunner Noah Hawley is presently writing scripts for both.

He confirmed that the series won't include any existing characters from the films and revealed that it takes place before them on Earth approximately 70 years from our present time.

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Stranger Things

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have typed a letter to fans containing a mix of news.

Due to its longer runtime and in order to deliver it to our screens as quickly as possible, season 4 will release in two parts on May 27 and July 1.

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A Quiet Place 3

Post-apocalyptic alien horror films A Quiet Place and it's sequel were relatively cheap to make, impressed critics and performed well financially.

Unsurprisingly Paramount have announced that there will be a third film in the franchise.

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Bender Won't Bend

We previously talked about the fabulous revival of Futurama by Hulu and mentioned that all original cast had signed deals to return except for voice of Bender John DiMaggio whose deal was still being finalized.

Seems that neither Hulu nor Bender are willing to bend on salary.

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NMS Sentinel Update

Hello Games have released their Sentinel Update for No Man's Sky accompanied as we'd expect by a trailer.

In addition to overhauling sentinels - who are the game's primary opponents - player weapons have been spruced up.

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Dune Spice Wars Trailer

It has been a good week for Dune. The film surpassed 400 million in global box office takings and Funcom also released the first gameplay trailer for their upcoming real time strategy (RTS) game, Dune: Spice Wars.

Set on Arrakis you control one of four factions - House Atreidies, House Harkonnen and two not yet revealed - to battle for territorial control.

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