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Silo Teaser
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Barotrauma 1.0
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Having just remarked in relation to an unremarkable title we're commenting only because the present dearth of trailers, it's nice to see the flip side to that.

Barotrauma is a novel and incredibly successful (2.5 million copies sold) indie game we'd never heard of and probably wouldn't have noticed in a typical week. They've announced an early access exit this month.

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Beneath Fear
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We watched the announcement trailer for new survival horror game Beneath and all we could muster was, "Oh another one."

In fairness it's not a genre we play so the failure of this video to move us may be personal.

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