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Eve Fanfest 2022
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CCP Games have announced that EVE Fanfest will return to Reykjavík, Iceland on May 5 - 8, 2022, after a two year COVID hiatus.

Tickets are pricey - $150 USD for early bird and $295 for regular.

Eve Online is one of the rare success stories in the MMO industry, launching a year before the biggest of those, World of Warcraft, all the way back in 2003.

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Inside Moonfall
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Lionsgate have released a new Moonfall teaser and there's a substantial reveal.

What makes the moon fall.

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Starsand Early Access
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Maybe sci-fi desert survival game Starsand entered early release today on Steam.

Survival games are plentiful but this one's potentially interesting for tapping into both Stargate and Dune for inspiration, neither of which has had any major success in the gaming world.

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Taika Waititi - The Incal
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Deadline report that acclaimed New Zealand director Taika Waititi of Thor: Ragnarok fame, who is already working on a Star Wars film, has also signed up to write and direct a new to film sci-fi property, The Incal.

Busy fellow. That's what you get for being good.

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Kate: Royalty or Renegade?
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Star Trek continue to dole out footage from October's New York Comic Con and while that's not really news, one of their recent ones for Prodigy is noteworthy.

Prodigy co-stars gush about Kate Mulgrew, with one describing her as "like royalty".

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The Matrix Metaverse
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Holywood Reporter has published an exclusive on Warner Bros' decision to sell Matrix NFTs (non-fungible tokens, i.e. digital items).

They'll sell 100,000 unique Matrix-inspired characters for $50 (USD) and owners will be given the movie's blue or red pill choice and some kind of ongoing engagement.

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Morbius Trailer
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Sony have released the official trailer for Morbius - though much of the footage is the same as shown in earlier teasers.

Vampires? That's not sci-fi!

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Respectfully Boba
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Disney have released the official trailer for Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett.

There didn't appear to be any major suprises in it storywise.

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Hubble Bubble Toil & Trouble
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NASA have published a new image from the Hubble Space Telescipe showing a 250 light-year wide bubble inside a nebula.

They have a few ideas about what might have caused it but none which completely add up according to our present understanding of giant space explosions.

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New Neo & Trinity Pic
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USA Today have published exclusive photos for upcoming movies and among them is one for The Matrix: Resurrections.

Gritty, dirty and worried are not usually what people look for in a tender moment image.

But one of the subtle messages this image is probably intended to communicate is that this movie isn't Jupiter Ascending, where the tone was not universally appreciated.

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