Blog Archive: March 2023

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Skies Station

During last year's Summer of Gaming, one of the standout trailers was for novel post-apocalyptic survival crafting game Forever Skies.

In November they delayed their early access launch into this year so they could implement more features. They've just unveiled the first of those and it strikes us as pointless.

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Sam and Simu in Simulant

Fresh from the trailer farm we have one for a new A.I. film called Simulant.

Simulants are androids and the trailer's dialog rattles off precepts they must obey which are reminiscent of Asimov's.

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Silo Teaser

Apple series Wool starring Dune's Rebecca Ferguson (Jessica Atreides) has been renamed Silo and given a May 5 release date.

Originally named for the book on which it is based, probably there's a very clever reason underlying it.

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Star Wars Scrapped

According to Variety, inside sources tell them that both the Patty Jenkins Rogue Squadron and the untitled Kevin Feige Star Wars films have been scrapped.

Taika Waititi's film has survived the culling but it won't be known whether his or some other project is now head of the movie line until this year's Star Wars celebration in April when plans will be officially unveiled.

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Starfield Surprise

Action roleplaying game Starfield was previously scheduled to release last year (11/11/2022) then bumped to the first half of this year - which is approaching half over and packed with other major releases.

Many were expecting its release date to be revealed in a promised developer deep dive, but this morning Bethesda dropped a release date reveal trailer - September 6.

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Sci-Fi Spirit

At this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards, Everything Everywhere All at Once was nominated for seven (out of twelve total for film) categories and won them all, setting a record for the awards.

Only Jamie-Lee Curtis lost out to co-star Ke Huy Quan because this year the awards went gender neutral - everyone up against each other all together.

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Nun v Neural Network

Having seen Sally Field (The Flying Nun) recently receive a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild it is perhaps timely for American streaming service Peacock to pit a nun against artificial intelligence in Mrs. Davis.

Not a conflict we would have dreamed up but it's attention grabbing and their teaser isn't terrible.

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Resident Evil 4 Upgrades

Gameplay footage for the Resident Evil 4 remake releasing this month is circulating and it has fans excited for showcasing gameplay improvements over the original.

This isn't one of those remakes with only improved graphics. Telling the same story they've recrafted it for present day gamers.

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Discovery Dusted

Star Trek: Discovery's fifth season will be its last. It will also not reach our screens until early 2024 instead of this year as previously expected.

Season five filming is almost complete.

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Dead Island 2 Extended

An extended 14 minute gameplay trailer has been released for upcoming first person zombie slayer Dead Island 2.

While we have watched a few shorter trailers for this titles, we're not fans of gore-fests and are simply going to point to it and say enjoy it if this is your cup of tea.

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