Play as a cat in a futuristic city Stray was this year's big science fiction winner at The Game Awards, winning both Best Debut Indie Game and Best Indie Game.

For a small developer's (Blue Twelve Studio) first game, it packed a lot of punch. Or perhaps we should say scratch.

Tractor beams are a not often used but powerful tool in the arsenal of star ships and stations in major sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek.

It doesn't look as impressive, but researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a new and more powerful method for moving objects with light and sound waves.

Fan site Gateworld have published a video chat with Jenny Stiven of Clio Consulting about the current state of Stargate at Amazon.

Not much is clear other than Brad Wright's pilot being off the table. Amazon are very keen to make something of the franchise but there are three different plans under consideration.

Games which allow you to play as a vampire are so numerous we couldn't even guess at their number. Vampires are sexy, strong and the posh nosh of the undead world.

Zombies are another matter. Typically mindless shotgun-fodder of the undead world, the gameplay trailer (warning - quite gory) for Dead Island 2 interestingly shows the player becoming one.

Warner Bros. have released the first promo for cloned space explorer film Mickey 17.

That promo is 30 seconds of Robert Pattinson (The Batman), clone 18, in a vat of goo.

Nominees for the 28th Critics Choice Awards have been announced and sci-fi did not fare especially well.

Andor, Severance and Prey picked up a pair of nominations each, and The Boys, 1899, Harley Quinn, Star Trek: Lower Decks, What We Do in the Shadows and Station Eleven one each.

Though not officially being revealed until The Game Awards later this week, a March 15 release date for open world action roleplaying souls-like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was briefly visible on its Steam page.

Along with system requirements which include 130 GB of storage. More than double the original game's (Fallen Order) 55 GB.

In July last year, AMC hailed Moonhaven as their most watched AMC+ exclusive series and their second most watched new series. Also renewing it for a second season.

Now they've cancelled it, amid a slew of cost cutting measures.

Amazon's singular supehero series The Boys certainly includes some very dark elements but even when the gore is flying, spinning, whizzing through the air and or dripping from every surface, the tone is more often comedic than grim.

Spinoff Gen V showrunners Michelle Fazekas and Tara Butters also have a history of genre dramas with a healthy comedic sheen, so it's surprising that our first look at their new series is all bloody and terrifying.