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Epic Spanking
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Epic Games has been spanked by the US Federal Trade Commission to the tune of half a billion US dollars.

A settlement was reached whereby Epic will pay a $275 million fine and $245 million in refunds to customers tricked by "illegal dark patterns".

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Ark Expanded
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Futuristic open world survival game Ark: Survival Evolved has released their Expanded Story Content Update.

The unimaginatively named update introduces fresh narration by Australian Actress Madeleine Madden (Wheel of Time) and David Tennant (Doctor Who).

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Cavill Jumps Ship
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While Henry Cavill's public response to new DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran dumping him as Superman after his recent return to the role and leaving the title role in Netflix's The Witcher was cordial and open to being recast in the DC universe, he has now joined an Amazon series adaptation of Warhammer 40K.

Colour us not surprised.

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65 Surprise
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After a long time hovering on the edge of entertainment awareness without providing any details other than cast and delaying its cinematic release by a year, 65 has surfaced and surprised.

Spoiler alert - midway through the trailer it tells us that the 65 refers to 65 million years ago. This is another time travel to the age of dinosaurs one.

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Starfield with Will Shen
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Bethesda have released another Constellation Questions developer chat video for Starfield, this time with Lead Quest Designer Will Shen.

There are no major revelations but this video does nail down a few details for this game which have varied in previous Bethesda titles.

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Horizon Online Confirmed
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Following recent rumours of a partnership between Sony and Korean online game developer NCSoft to create an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game) in the Horizons universe, Horizons developer Guerilla Entertainment has confirmed that an online game is being made, but speak of an internal team.

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Cavill Confirmed Out
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While new DC studio heads James Gunn and Peter Safran haven't revealed their full plan, both James and Henry Cavill have confirmed that he won't reprise the role of Superman.

After having only recently left Netflix's The Witcher and announced his return to the big S. Ouch.

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God of War Series
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After picking up a bevy of wins at this years The Game Awards, Amazon have announced that a live action series will be made based on fantasy action roleplaying game God of War.

While that news might not immediately strike most people as relevant to science fiction, there are two Stargate connections.

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Patty Says No
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Following The Wrap's claims that Patty Jenkins stepped away from directing Wonder Woman 3 over her refusal to submit another treatment for it to DC execs, she has tweeted a definitive rejection.

This is simply not true. I never walked away. I was open to considering anything asked of me. It was my understanding that there was nothing I could do to move anything forward at this time.

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Fusion Breakthrough?
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Financial Times claim that government scientists at California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved a significant breakthrough in the pursuit of fusion technology.

A world first net energy gain.

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