Future Stories

Gerard Butler’s career has been taking us on a delightfully baffling journey for years, and his next big CG-stravaganza , Greenland , just dropped a new trailer that does not disappoint. His foe this go-round is a crumbling comet that’s making fiery Swiss cheese out of the Earth. And we do mean cheese . Read more...

More and more comic book stores across the United States are having to close their doors because of the ongoing covid-19 outbreak —whether that’s due to state restrictions or an actual lack of new product . One of the biggest questions looming has been what, if any, steps publishers and distributors like Diamond might… Read more...

The University of Washington has updated its COVID-19 projections for all states and for the United States. Total COVID-19 deaths projected to August 4, 2020 in United States of America is now 83,967 deaths. Three days ago the primary projection for the USA was 82000 deaths. New York’s forecast has gotten worse and Washington IHME is forecasting over 15,788 deaths which up a lot from the previous forecast of 10,240 deaths. California’s forecast is improving. SOURCES- University of Washington IHME Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

Welcome back to Gaming Shelf , io9's column all about board games and tabletop roleplaying games. It’s now been a couple of weeks since social distancing started, making at-home game nights feel more important than ever. We’ve got some suggestions on things to play at home, as well as some upcoming releases that take … Read more...

A new portable molecular test can detect the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in just five minutes.

Some stars have the element neon to thank for their ultimate, explosive demise, according to astrophysical research. Read more...

Amazon’s new series Tales From the Loop   was a unique creative challenge. Instead of adapting a book like Game of Thrones or His Dark Materials , showrunner Nathaniel Halpern was making a series out of paintings. Specifically, the Tales From the Loop artbook from Simon Stålenhag. Luckily for Halpern, he was “uniquely… Read more...

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Practicing social distancing means doing everything you can to minimize the need to physically leave your house so as to avoid exposure to/ transmission of the novel coronavirus . Being cooped up, though, can lead one to feeling the need to wander out into the open world. The problem is, that’s not in the public’s best… Read more...

The coronavirus has canceled or postponed almost every single major and minor social event across the world. Just this week, we learned that the 2020 Olympics will need to rebrand to the 2021 Olympics with the announcement that the games have been postponed until July of next year. Other sporting institutions like the… Read more...

For better or worse , Star Trek: Picard leaned heavily into the nostalgia of its returning hero. Over the course of its recently concluded first season, this didn’t just mean bringing back familiar faces , it meant many sweet callbacks to the beloved Next Generation for fans to spot over its 10-episode run. Read more...

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Many of us suddenly have more time for reading these days, and lucky for sci-fi and fantasy fans , April is chock-full of new releases—with tales of witches, monsters, vengeful forces of nature, space colonists , AI gone wild, and so much more. Crack open a new book and escape into its pages! Read more...

Amazon has fired an employee at its Staten Island facility who organized a strike against his employer over conditions in the company’s warehouses amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Read more...

One of the big things Sonic the Hedgehog   had going for it that video game movies often do not was a cast that clearly grew up loving the characters and franchise they were now a part of. That, in theory, made it easier to act through a movie with a somewhat less than thrilling plot (though fun all the same .) Read more...

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker already had so much going on , but our exclusive look at some of the concept art behind making it reveals the film could’ve had even more, including something truly delightful. Three words, my friends: BB-8. Battle. Tank. Read more...

Mobile Suit Gundam is one of the most iconic mecha franchises of all time, but it’s also been going on for so long, and in so many different forms, that getting into it can seem incredibly intimidating. But if you’re looking for shows to binge-watch that are full of rad robot action (and little horror of war, as a… Read more...

The people wanted crossplay in games, and they got it. After debuting on the original Xbox and PCs back in 2003, Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy has been ported to the Nintendo Switch and PS4, complete with online multiplayer. But new players are finding that feature a challenge as veteran PC players have figured… Read more...

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Dwayne Johnson has good news about Hobbs & Shaw ’s future. Josh Brolin can’t wait to play Cable again...according to Rob Liefeld. The CW gives some of its superhero shows some fresh return dates. Plus, guns blazing in a new Walking Dead clip, and a new look at Stargirl ’s Doctor Mid-Nite. To me, my spoilers! Read more...

Sorry but, you won’t be vamping out with Jared Leto or busting ghosts with Paul Rudd this year. Sony Pictures just announced a major shake-up to its theatrical release schedule bumping most of its biggest 2020 releases back to 2021. Read more...

The USA and Europe have a similar scale situation with cases of Coronavirus COVID-19 per million people. The US had about 20,000 new cases. Europe collectively has more new cases and more deaths. Europe has nearly double the US population. Europe has about 400,000 cases and nearly 30,000 deaths. TheUSA has 164,000 cases and 3148 deaths. The situations are similar in terms of a disease with exponential spread and growth. The cases per million people are very close. Europe has more deaths but Europe has an older population. SOURCES- Worldometers.info

The first season of DC Universe’s animated Harley Quinn  series split the difference between Batman: The Animated Series and the grimdark Warner Bros. cinematic universe, telling a surprisingly earnest, foul-mouthed story of self-actualization. By breaking free of the Joker and stepping outside of his shadow, Harley… Read more...

If your butt hurts from sitting down working at home all the time half as much as mine does, you may be in need of an ergonomic seat cushion. From what I’ve heard (and read), most of the responses are bound to include a certain mix of red and blue. A brand whose name, you might say, rhymes with nurple. Read more...

Westworld is playing a different game in season three—Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy’s sci-fi drama (née Western) is much more forthcoming in its storytelling, and more restrained in its number of timelines and perspective-shifting flashbacks. As Zack Handlen notes in his review of the third episode, “ The Absence Of Field Read more...

Even in the best of times, any scrap of new Rick and Morty content is cause for celebration, and yes that includes that one Pringles commercial . But over the weekend, an unexpected delight appeared: a gory samurai short starring the iconic duo! Now the guy who dreamed up the short is sharing how it came together. Read more...

Star Trek: Picard kicked off its season with a lot of ideas about its titular hero. What did it mean that a man like Jean-Luc Picard had not just retired, but quit the utopian organization he’d dedicated his life to? How did he feel about its decline? Is there space for a man like him in a modern interpretation of … Read more...

Fossil skeletons tell us a great deal about extinct species; we couldn’t piece together ancient life without them. Just as important, however, are the fossils that may not immediately tug at our imaginations, fill us with awe, or even be recognizable to non-paleontologists. The traces that an animal made during its… Read more...

There are many epic comic book collections out there, but few have garnered intrigue and infamy quite like the Ian Levine collection—alleged to be one of the few complete collections of DC’s comics from its very beginnings in 1935. Now it’s no longer not just alleged, but going up for sale to the highest bidder. Read more...

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The latest episode of Westworld had a huge reveal about the real world outside of the parks, one that embodies the show’s latest motto that “free will is not free.” The whole thing might seem far-fetched, like human robots , but it’s actually terrifying once you realize predictive algorithms are already here...and have… Read more...

About five minutes into the Resident Evil 3 remake, I uttered the word “brilliant.” I don’t use that word often. I don’t know if I should have used it then. Brilliance is an incredibly rare thing, and Resident Evil 3 hooked me from the start. It is an explosive game brimming with intensity and some of the best action… Read more...

Long before Vin Diesel took on the role  of soldier turned indestructible assassin Bloodshot, the character was played by a Power Ranger. Jason David Frank, best known as the Green Ranger , played Bloodshot on a show called Ninjak vs. The Valiant Universe , which was filmed in 2016. The show featured other Valiant Comics … Read more...

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Steven Universe Future ’s final episodes brought Steven and the Crystal Gems’ story to an epic close. They also reinforced one of the most important concepts that shaped Rebecca Sugar’s approach to creating the show ever since she first had the idea for the series. Steven Universe and Future were both sublime in the… Read more...

Men on the forefront of scientific discovery do not fear risking life and limb, be it drinking the vomit of a sick man or dosing themselves with LSD . One astrophysicist followed in their footsteps in the name of covid-19 health research and ended up with magnets up his nose, at risk of a horrifying and violent death.… Read more...

Now that Westworld Hosts like Dolores and Maeve are out and about in the “real” world, they’re in a unique position to tear asunder the human ruling class’ assumptions about the nature of their shared reality. It’s easy enough for a human to dismiss a Host as a mindless automaton whose thoughts and feelings are all… Read more...

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Alpha may be dead , but the leader of the Whisperers hasn’t quite finished her reign of terror. Come on, did you guys really think it was going to be that easy? Read more...

Superstitions—passed down through generations, or developed spontaneously on certain online forums—gobble up thousands of productive hours yearly. But it would be wrong to say that all that time spent avoiding ladders or cracks in the sidewalk is wasted. For one thing, we’d probably just be spending that time on some… Read more...

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Paul Scheer teases Don Cheadle’s role in Space Jam 2 . Another Hanna-Barbera icon is making an appearance in Scoob . Michael Chabon teases the new directions Star Trek: Picard could go in in season two. Plus, excellent Castlevania news, what’s to come on The Walking Dead , and a look at Future Man ’s final season.… Read more...

Lego has always been a family-friendly toy and now it’s getting friendly with a franchise that’s all about family: Fast and Furious . Read more...

I spotted my first Tesla Model Y being driven in the wild. It was in Lafayette, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla Model Y deliveries started about 2 weeks ago, but there has also been the shelter in place at the same time. SOURCES- Brian Wang photos Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

It’s been an uncharacteristically slow, straightforward start for Westworld ’s newest season, but the series is finally returning to its strengths by leaning hard into one of the show’s biggest mysteries: Who the hell is in Delos director Charlotte Hale’s body? Read more...

The coronavirus pandemic is nothing to joke about, random ‘80s kids. The only way to stay safe: listen to the wisdom of cartoon characters. Or, well, okay, that’s not true, but: sometimes the cartoon characters are helpful and correct. Read more...

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Standing in VR is cool. You feel like you are really standing in a virtual world. And for small experiences and mini-games, this is fine. But for something like the new Half-Life: Alyx , standing for hours and hours, plus crouching a lot, can start to make you feel sore and tired. So I just sat down. I recommend it. Read more...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, medical leading the US Coronavirus task force, says based on what he’s seeing, the U.S. could experience between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths from Covid-19. Europe appears to be on track for two to six times more COVID-19 deaths than the USA. The US usually has 30,000 to 60,000 deaths annually from the flu. The world has 350,000 to 650,000 deaths annually from the flu. The US had 416,000 military casualities in World War 2. There is an expectation that there will be multiple waves of COVID-19. It could subside in the summer and then return in the

NASA has selected SpaceX as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency’s Gateway in lunar orbit. The NASA announcement also revealed a larger version of the SpaceX manned Dragon capsule, Dragon XL. The SpaceX Dragon XL appears to be bigger than the Dragon Capsule. The extra size may just for the fuel and engines to reach the needed lunar orbit for the Gateway. Steve Jurvetson, billionaire Venture Capitalist and SpaceX investor, says SpaceX Dragon XL will supply 5 tons to the lunar gateway or the moon.

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The final confrontation between Zuko and Azula is one of the most compelling moments of the original Avatar series. The final agni kai, fought in the tradition of the Fire Nation: just one on one, no holds barred, all fire and fury. It’s an incredible moment, and it’s incredible in this fan film, too. Read more...

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In Italy, 500 COVID-19 patients used ventilators made with scuba masks and a 3D printed connector. RT: 500 patients in northern Italian hospitals are receiving ventilators, produced by hacked scuba gear that was shipped by Decathlon. This is beyond awesome. Meddy Bear pic.twitter.com/DAVwN5ZZk9 — The Medic (@AmboParamedic) March 25, 2020 One technique he said had yielded dramatic results was to have coronavirus patients lie on their stomach instead of on their back while on a ventilator. Oxygen level in the blood jumped by hundreds of percents. In Padua, Italy the autoimmune medicine Tocilizumab has proven effective and there are positive

When you wrote the book behind the hit The Martian , it turns out you become pretty popular with Hollywood. This might explain why there’s been a hot bidding war for Andy Weir’s newest novel, Project Hail Mary , before it’s even out. Read more...

Square Enix announced earlier today that an upgraded version of Nier Replicant is heading to Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Read more...