Fear the Walking Dead will return for season 6. The news was confirmed by showrunner Ian Goldberg during the show’s SDCC 2019 panel. The news is not a surprise as Fear the Walking Dead is AMC’s second most-watched series, averaging over 2 million viewers, according to THR. Fear the Walking Dead has seen its fair amount
The Expanse has been one of the most popular topics over the years on our long-running genre television podcast, Sci Fi Fidelity. Going back to our first discussion of the show in season 1 as well as our interviews with showrunner Naren Shankar and lead actor Dominique Tipper, we’ve always been fans of the show
God of War director Cory Barlog has seemingly been using his Twitter account to tease some kind of sci-fi project. This is all a bit strange, but a quick look at Barlog’s Twitter account reveals that he has changed his photo to a picture of the Voyager 1 space satellite, has sent out a strange tweet
Everyone loves at least one Christmas movies. Even the Grinches and Scrooges among us can’t deny that there is at least one flick out there that can inspire the spirit of the season within them. further reading: Christmas Movies: A Complete Holiday Streaming Guide In order to find it, however, you’re going to have to
This interview with Annalee Newitz was part of my research for “Are You Afraid of the Darkness: A Guide to Hopepunk,” a feature written for Den of Geek’s New York Comic Con print magazine that delved into the hopepunk term. I recommend beginning with that article before diving into this full interview transcript. To hear more of Newitz’s
French startup Blade has announced major upgrades to its Shadow cloud PC service that will add ray-tracing and 4K gaming configurations in 2020. Users will be able to choose from three subscription tiers, the latter two of which will offer Nvidia RTX GPUs, a big jump from the Nvidia Quadro P5000 GPU currently included in the
This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 4 Episode 4 “Haste makes waste.” The biggest piece of advice that Izuku Midoriya is given within “Fighting Fate” is that cooler heads prevail and that there’s nothing to gain from rushing into battle. Right from the start of My Hero Academia, Midoriya has been
The Power Rangers comics are on fire right now. Both Go Go Power Rangers and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are the best they’ve ever been and it looks like they’ll only get better from here! Below we have an exclusive look at several pages from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #45, coming November 27 from BOOM! Studios.
That’s No Moon Although ultimately viewed as a financial low-point for Nintendo, the GameCube era gave us some of the best games ever made: Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. One of its best, a launch title that wasn’t an in-house Nintendo
This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 7 “You ready to find out who you really are?” Van Helsing hits its fourth season midpoint in full stride with the addition of horror fiction’s most renowned vampire and an intriguing plot twist that opens the door for any number of characters to
Once they managed to get McDonald’s to reproduce the Szechuan sauce first produced in 1998 for the release of Mulan, Rick and Morty established itself as part of the television furniture. As every struggling creative knows, however, success like this doesn’t come overnight. In the beginning (during the Earth year 2006), Justin Roiland created a short
It looks like Hideo Kojima convinced quite a few former Konami employees to help him work on Death Stranding. Death Stranding‘s credits confirm that about 67 of roughly 120 members of the main Death Stranding team previously worked on the Metal Gear Solid series. Of those 67, it seems that 62 worked on Metal Gear
Monash University researchers have gained insights into how nanoparticles could develop a biosensor to prevent deadly diseases contracted on medical equipment, such as catheters. Candida albicans can become a serious problem for people who are seriously ill or immune-suppressed. Researchers at Monash University have gained insights into how nanoparticles could be used to identify the
IMAGE: Mosquitoes can carry a variety of infectious diseases that until now were difficult and expensive to diagnose. view more Credit: Nick Holonyak Mico and Nanotechnology Lab Infectious diseases such as Zika and Dengue remain a top contributor to death and disability across the globe, according to the World Health Organization. Diagnosing and treating these diseases,
This Batwoman article contains MAJOR spoilers for what’s aired so far, including the Batwoman pilot. Batwoman is a notable addition to The CW’s superhero lineup for several reasons. It stars an openly LGBTQ lead, whose loves and dating life are an intrinsic part of its story. It officially introduces Gotham – and Bruce Wayne, in
The trans-Atlantic slave trade has formed so many facets of modern cultural relationships, it’s hard to understate the impact of that in human industry. In Queen of the Conquered, Kacen Callendar reimagines the Caribbean in the era of slavery, setting it far closer to its European neighbors and infusing it with magic. In The Deep,
While PlayStation Now continues to grow, it seems like Sony doesn’t currently intend to release major new games via the subscription service. “The nature and scale of some of the first-party games that we are making leads us to think that, right now, it’s better to spend energy on making sure that the launch of those
IMAGE: Cover for Handbook on Timoshenko-Ehrenfest Beam and Uflyand-Mindlin Plate Theories view more Credit: World Scientific Beams and plates are indispensable, and are often occurring elements of every civil, mechanical, and aerospace structure. Classical Bernoulli-Euler beam and Kirchhoff-Love plate theories are applicable for slender beams and thin plates, respectively. For stocky structures one has to take
The ability to transform sunlight into energy is one of Nature’s more remarkable feats. Scientists understand the basic process of photosynthesis, but many crucial details remain elusive, occurring at dimensions and fleeting time scales long deemed too minuscule to probe. Now, that is changing. In a new study, led by Petra Fromme and Nadia Zatsepin
The future impacts of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) on the lives of human beings will be one of the hot topics at a symposium on in Brisbane and supported by QUT next week. Humanising the Future is a public event being staged by the Australian Academy of the Humanities in South Brisbane on 13-15
Long live the Ryanverse! John Krasinski and his version of Jack Ryan will get a third tour of duty on Amazon, which gave an advance order for Jack Ryan Season 3 back in February. Paul Scheuring, best known as the creator of Fox’s Prison Break, will step in as the new showrunner for Jack Ryan, starting with the
This feature originally appeared in Den of Geek’s NYCC 2019 print magazine. When author Alexandra Rowland (A Choir of Lies) first posted to Tumblr in 2017, “The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on,” she had no idea how intensely that sentiment would resonate with the platform’s community and beyond. “Initially, I was just vaguely bemused
Yooka-Laylee developer Playtonic Games has denied rumors that they are working on a Banjo-Kazooie sequel. “We hate to be the bearers of news that isn’t what you want to hear, but we thought it best to come out and say we aren’t working on a new Banjo-Kazooie game and we remain an independent studio,” says Playtonic via
Through two seasons, The Orville is the little Star Trek homage that could. Like its (unofficial) Trek forefathers, The Orville has built up a small but formidable fanbase. Fox has rewarded that fanbase by ordering The Orville Season 3…but it won’t air on Fox. Orville creator Seth MacFarlane announced during San Diego Comic-Con 2019 that the
This article is sponsored by Tor Books. All views expressed in the article reflect those of the writer. Coined by academic Joseph Campbell and made more famous by George Lucas’ use of the template in Star Wars: A New Hope, The Hero’s Journey is a classic structure for fantasy stories. The Hero’s Journey is comprised
By 2016, Pokémon X and Y had already transitioned the franchise into the new visual realm made possible by the 3DS, meaning that Sun and Moon would have to do something drastic to stand out from their predecessors. Thankfully, the combined powers of Nintendo, Game Freak, and The Pokémon Company came up with something pretty special
IMAGE: Schematic images of the device structure. view more Credit: KAIST KAIST researchers have reported the detection of a picosecond electron motion in a silicon transistor. This study has presented a new protocol for measuring ultrafast electronic dynamics in an effective time-resolved fashion of picosecond resolution. The detection was made in collaboration with Nippon Telegraph and
IMAGE: Schematic illustration of probe adsorption influenced by an attractive interaction within the corona view more Credit: SMART The Molecular Probe Adsorption (MPA) method is substantially faster and cheaper than existing chemical methods and does not damage the nanoparticle being studied It can also be used to ‘characterise’ nanoparticles with any geometric shape as a universal
ATLANTA-Georgia State University chemistry researchers have unlocked one of the mysteries of catalytic reactions on a microscopic scale, allowing for the design of more efficient industrial processes. Catalysts — which speed up chemical reactions in everything from the digestion of food to combustion engines in vehicles — are essential in turning raw materials into useful
University of Rochester researchers, inspired by diving bell spiders and rafts of fire ants, have created a metallic structure that is so water repellant, it refuses to sink – no matter how often it is forced into water or how much it is damaged or punctured. Could this lead to: All of the above, says