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Strange New Directive
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While we were relieved that Strange New Worlds' pilot episode felt like a return to real Star Trek, it may have been short-lived.

The second is an improvement in that Uhura gets over her pilot episode fangirl giddiness but unfortunately we see The Prime Directive retconned and also some weak writing.

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Diversity Tool
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Activision Blizzard have shared details about an internally developed and employed tool to quantify character diversity in their games, for the purpose of improving it.

Which has been met with unfair criticism from people who approve of efforts to improve diversity but raise a range of irrational objections to the method.

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Classic Boobs
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Several months ago a Kickstarter campaign was conducted to fund a John Carter computer game. Their prospects didn't seem great and it unsurprisingly failed.

You may also recall we gave a boobies warning in relation to an article about a John Carter comic.

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Dolmen Q & A
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Wccftech have published a Q & A with Kiev Martins, producer of sci-fi Soulslike action roleplaying game Dolmen which releases next week.

Perfect timing to capitalise on Soulslike Elden Ring's stellar launch three months ago.

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The Orville S3
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Hulu has dropped a trailer for The Orville: New Horizons (aka season 3) and it looks like more magnificant content from a show which has quickly become a fan favourite.

The good news continues - SBS On Demand have announced that they're fast-tracking its release in Australia for June 3, which will effectively be same day as the US.

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Resident Evil Teaser 2
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We occasionally bemoan the practice of dropping teasers or trailers for a new series or film every day or thereabouts. It's exhausting.

But quality is queen and the second Resident Evil teaser from Netflix is perfect. So just applause from us today.

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Moonhaven Teaser
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You might remember we brought you an unexpected and seemingly overlooked by everyone else gem from this year's US Superbowl Ads - a first, glimpse at AMC's upcoming series, Moonhaven.

Those few seconds of footage showed us the setting but gave no sense of tone. A fresh teaser fills in that blank and it's dark.

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Dune Open World
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Over three years ago, Funcom announced a six-year partnership to release a minimum of three Dune computer games.

At the time one of the few details provided was that one would be an open world multiplayer going into pre-production in 2019.

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Stargate Timekeepers Gameplay
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Publisher Slitherine has released half an hour of gameplay footage and developer commentary for their upcoming tactical roleplaying game, Stargate: Timekeepers.

This is from the same event Home of Wargamer's event we recently highlighted but just Stargate.

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Meta Cambria
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We are keeping an eye out for oversized reptiles to report on Jurassic World's Dinotracker, but no, this isn't that.

Meta - formerly and more notiously known as Facebook - have revealed a preview video of what they're calling Project Cambria.

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