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Eternights Winter
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Apocalyptic romcom(bat) game Eternights has been given a Winter (Oz) release window and there's a trailer with new gameplay.

Romance sims aren't our cup of tea but we do appreciate the bright neon-punk art style.

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Jedi Survivor Gameplay
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IGN are doing one of their signature First's for upcoming souls-like action adventure Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, sequel to 2019's Fallen Order.

Bringing us 9 minutes of non-continuous gameplay and some details on enemies players will encounter.

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Do Look Up
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This evening a green comet will be visible two moon widths from Mars from our perspective but over 100 times further away than the moon.

Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) is a rare event and probably worth stepping outside and taking a quick look up - if you've a telescope or binoculars - ideally after sunset but before moonrise.

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Coming and Going
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Amazon have renewed virtual time travel series The Peripheral for a second season, saying pretty much nothing else on that point.

Finally pushed out of the airlock, however, is HBO's Avenue 5. Deadline reported the series probably finished in May last year well ahead of its season two screening.

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Space Oddity
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The first human is likely to set foot on Mars in the coming decades and that's an increasingly popular setting for fiction including 2015 film The Martian and released just this month narrative adventure game Deliver Us Mars.

Romantic comedies rarely tread new ground and even when there's a whole extra planet to work with, Space Oddity's trailer sounds like yet another application of the commercially proven Hollywood formula.

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Picard Comes Home
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By home our title means Paramount+ rather than the vineyard. They've reached a deal with Amazon to both stream the third season of Picard which begins February 17.

Previous seasons will also be available on the same date and joined later this year by Star Trek: Lower Decks.

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Ion Sci-Fi 7 Feb
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This week a look at the crew and villains in the final season of Picard, Toni Collette joins sci-fi in an electrifying new role, new animated series My Dad the Bounty Hunter not just for the kids, Ant-Man and family battle Kang the Conqueror in Quantumania, an extended preview of retro-futuristic action roleplay Atomic Heart and The Rig escapes cancellation carnage.

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Dichen Goes Ape
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Australian actress Dichen Lachman (Severance, Jurassic World: Dominion, The 100, Dollhouse) has joined the cast of 20th Century's Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

There are no details at this point about her role but this one is being filmed in Australia. Right now.

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Marvel Success Flop
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We have long expressed the view that tactical card roleplaying game Marvel's Midnight Suns might have been tailored for too niche an audience.

Now the verdict is in. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier hails it a critical success but commercial flop and reports Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick pointing blame at timing.

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Extraordinary Renewal
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Slightly preceding their January first season premiere, Disney renewed superhero-envy comedy series Extraordinary and they've now commenced shooting season two.

Despite our title pre screening renewals actually aren't uncommon but in this case their confidence bumps us off the fence.

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