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Big Devs To Skip E3

Though not official at this stage, IGN claims multiple sources tell them that all three of the major console developers - Xbox, Sony and Nintendo - intend to skip this year's E3 (Electronics Entertainment Expo).

Sony last attended in 2018 and it's not clear whether the withdrawal of the other big two is due to event management problems or continuation of a trend towards big developers doing their own thing.

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Microsoft Direct

Apart from one brief advertisement, Microsoft was conspicuously absent from December's The Game Awards ceremony, which is one of the main venues for major game announcements and trailer reveals.

Seems they're doing their own thing - a new Microsoft games livestream they've called Developer_Direct. The first will take place on January 26 at 9 a.m. (AEDT).

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Sydney Free WB Films

As part of their 100th anniversary celebrations, Warner Bros. is holding a free open air cinema in Sydney's Darling Quarter from January 12 to 29.

Superheroes dominate the second week with the first screening of Black Adam outside of cinemas, plus Wonder Woman, The Dark Knight and "more".

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Gamescom Awards

As is often the case in gaming but almost never in film and television, sci-fi did quite well in this year's Gamescom Awards.

Assuming you regard steampunk souls-like Lies of P to be sci-fi. Otherwise sci-fi bombed.

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Gamescom Days 4 & 5

We didn't have an opportunity to attend to the mountain of Gamescom material yesterday so we're doing days 4 and 5 together.

Today we have more Lies of P and Moonbreaker, and new trailers for Lightyear Frontier and Miasma Chronicles.

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Gamescom Day 3

Gamescom's third day seems to have been relatively quiet with just a little bit more from High on Life.

There's also some new Gotham Knights footage. Even though that doesn't via Gamescom we're going to slap them together.

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Gamescom Day 2

Instead of wall to wall trailers, today is more of a deep dive into a much smaller number of tiles.

Even so we'll deal with High on Life, Homeworld, Lies of P, Steelrising, The Callisto Protocol and Warhammer 40K: Darktide collectively.

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Gamescom Opening Night

Since we were up early to work anyway, we watched Gamescom's Opening Night live.

There were a dizzying number of sci-fi titles showcased.

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San Diego Comic Con

This year's returning after a two year COVID break San Diego Comic-Con have published their schedule for the July 20-24 event.

It's huge. So huge we're not even going to try to summarise it.

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Avatar LEGO

During the virtual LEGO Con 2022 which was streamed the weekend before last, the first ever Avatar LEGO set was unveiled with an impressive $250 (Oz) price tag.

There'll also be a live event in Sydney on July 9-10 at which you might be able to see this set. And other blocky things.

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