Today CD Projekt Red announced that a new Witcher game is in development. The Witcher is great - but fantasy - and they had previously indicated the possibility of a new game in The Witcher universe so this isn't a surprise.

Surprise comes in the form of their using Epic's Unreal Engine 5 to develop the game rather than their own proprietary REDengine.

IGN have released an exclusive 1 minute clip from the Halo series which launches in a few days.

Giving us a little taste of the intersection of science and politics.

UK's Daily Mirror have published an article claiming that Russell T Davies is keen to cast Hugh Grant as the next Doctor Who.

Such rumours fly thick and fast in the news stream and we generally regard them as appalling clickbait, but today we gave them a nibble.

An opinion piece has been published on Bloomberg about the new reality of privatised space in light of the situation with American astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station and the Russian space agency's "joke" that they might leave him there.

He correctly describes the situation. Space is now and will increasingly be commercial. But he slips in an extremely dubious assertion.

Comic Book Resources have published a piece on what they call the non-binary alien trope.

While we don't disagree with their wanting better representation in sci-fi, we do take issue with their implicit assumption of human superiority.

When talking about upcoming French sci-fi Parallels on Disney+ we touched on a quote from a Disney France VP which seemed to suggest that sci-fi isn't very popular there.

But that's not the case. In a Deadline exclusive interview, series creator Quoc Dang Tran tells us that prior to streaming it just couldn't be made in France.

"Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members will be able to stream “Halo” through an exclusive offer of Paramount+ for 30 days free via Perks, available to claim starting on March 23."

While this offer is communicated via the Xbox US site, there's no talk of regional qualifiers and Halo is releasing globally on Paramount+ where it's available, eg. Australia.

Back in January there was a Doctor Who event in Eve Online which from our perspective was a bit of a yawn so we didn't comment on it.

Now, however, the BBC have launched something much more interesting in Epic's Fornite Creative.

Variety report that following a joint statement by Pixar employees and allies protesting Disney executives censoring "overtly gay affection", a previously cut same-sex kiss has been restored to upcoming film Lightyear.

Between the character Hawthorne (voiced by Uzo Aduba) and her female partner.

Marvel continue to pump out Moon Knight teasers but in a truly marvellous development, this one doesn't feature the titular character again telling us that he can't tell the difference between reality and dreams.

Rather we again see the elevator and contact lens scene shown in a previous trailer, but less edited down.