This week highlights from Gamescom including retro alt-history shooter Atomic Heart and digital table-top game Moonbreaker, Claudia Black is back in sci-fi thriller Deus, Toni Collette joins new sci-fi series The Power and what's in and out on streaming services.
A new "pulpy space opera genre film" Island in the Stars which will be shot in Australia is seeking its own stars - high profile ones to join their cast.
Which already includes Australians Vernon Wells (Mad Max II : The Road Warrior, Weird Science), Tony Bonner (The Man From Snowy River), Emily Coupe (The Crossroads) and Krista Vendy (Neighbours).
Star Wars has just trumped Star Trek in the memorabilia auction wars, with a Han Solo prop pistol from Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hopeselling for $1,057,500 US ($1.54 million Oz).
Beating last year's Captain Kirk rifle which sold for $615K US.
Just yesterday we were puzzling over the lack of a confirmed release date for Netflix's animated Cyberpunk: Edgerunners series and today we finally have one, along with a new trailer.
It's titled Official NSFW Trailer. You've been warned.
Australian Netflix subscribers have a little bit of a extra sci-sunshine coming their way in September.
With Dune on the 2nd, The Matrix Resurrections on the 16th and curiously or perhaps ominously, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners still without an official release date.