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Tag: scifi
Joss Whedon will return to sci-fi TV with HBO’s The Nevers
Enlarge / Joss Whedon, courtesy of HBO. (credit: HBO) Joss Whedon, the creator of acclaimed TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, has been announced as showrunner for a new HBO series titled The Nevers. The Friday announcement confirms Whedon as “executive producer, showrunner, writer, and director” for his first-ever non-network TV series, following […]
This Sci-Fi Tool Lets You Shine a Light on the Brain
Famed neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal believed that in the central nervous system (CNS) — the brain and spine — nerves don’t regenerate. It was a dismal proclamation but one that held for nearly 100 years. Until now. The CNS puzzle, Ramón y Cajal admitted then, belonged to future scientists. Today, optogenetics, […]
A Sci-Fi Narrative And Precise Maneuvering Await In Ice Caves Of Europa
The Ice Caves of Europa may be dark frozen caverns deep beneath the moon’s surface but they’re not devoid of drama. In this new hybrid of drone simulator and story-driven adventure, your mining and exploratory expeditions of the titular caves are a backdrop for a larger narrative that touches on themes of identity and humanity. […]
George Clooney in Talks to Helm Sci-Fi Film ‘Echo’
George Clooney is planning his next film: a sci-fi thriller called Echo. Clooney is in early talks to helm the movie, which focuses on everyone’s two favorite things: drones and paranoia. Don’t let the title fool you: Echo is not the long-awaited sequel to Earth to Echo. Instead, it’s an adult sci-fi thriller that’s caught the eye of handsome […]
Signalis Blends Lovecraftian Sci-Fi And Survival Horror
Signalis‘ atmospheric pixel art style promises a dark adventure into surreal sci-fi, of “melancholic mystery and…dystopian dreamworlds” tinged with cosmic horror imagery and elements. Signalis places you into control of a “Replika” crash-landed on a mysterious planet, haunted by visions and discordant memories as she explores an abandoned facility. Old-school survival horror – resource management, […]
Solve Sci-Fi Programming Puzzles In Prime Mover
Post-SpaceChem, puzzler fans have had a bevy of programming and pseudo-programming games to test their solution-crafting prowess and the new game Prime Mover looks to scratch that itch as well, with its blend of circuit board construction and input manipulation. Reminiscent of a cross between Human Resource Machine and SpaceChem, Prime Mover has you transporting […]
Netflix orders sci-fi series with ‘Battlestar Galactica’ actor
Battlestar Galactica’s Kara “Starbuck” Thrace is embarking on another mission. Netflix has ordered a 10-episode season for a sci-fi drama original entitled Another Life, and yes, it stars Katee Sackhoff. The store revolves around Sackhoff’s character, astronaut Niko Breckinridge, as she leads her crew on a journey to investigate the origins of an alien artifact […]
Sci-fi stunner Prospect values small stories in a galaxy far, far away
Enlarge / Sophie Thatcher (right) and Pedro Pascal in Prospect. Check out the trailer here. (credit: Prospect film still) AUSTIN, Texas—Make no mistake, South by Southwest conference film darling Prospect takes place within a giant, intergalactic reality. Even lower- to middle-class adventurers like our heroes, Cee (Sophie Thatcher) and Damon (Jay Duplass), have a spacecraft […]
John Krasinski Lines Up ‘Life on Mars’, His Sci-Fi Follow-Up To ‘A Quiet Place’
Former The Office star John Krasinski surprised a lot of people – us included – with A Quiet Place, his terrific new horror film that cost $ 17 million to make but has already grossed $ 85 million worldwide. We expect Paramount to green light a sequel any day now, but Krasinski isn’t interested in waiting […]
