Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda survived the blistering conditions of the early universe.

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Check out this fascinating recreation of a wristwatch as the Mbius strip crafted by 3D Artist and Technical Director Matt Taylor using Houdini.Watch: https://80.lv/articles/3d-artist-turned-wristwatch-into-m-bius-strip-using-houdini/

Deliver At All Costs, an action-packed sandbox game with a 1950s aesthetic in which you, as a bad-temper courier, can destroy almost everything, is coming this May.Don't miss the pre-order discount: https://80.lv/articles/official-release-date-of-action-sandbox-deliver-at-all-costs-is-announced/@FarOutGames

RTHUXLEYThe legendary battle between the Demon and Terada is about to go down.#battle #legendary #scifi

RTHUXLEYThe beauty of Machine City, shown in pencil form from 2015.#pencil #machinecity #scifi #art #artist

God of War is celebrating its 20-year anniversary today, March 22, 2025. Below, we examine how Kratos' character arc has shifted over time to become a timely reflection on masculinity and change.As much as people remember the brutality and the grandiosity of God of War, as a singular game and as a series, it's easy to forget that the first God of War in 2005 doesn't actually begin with Kratos fighting a hydra and ripping soldiers apart with his bare hands.It begins with a suicide attempt. Starting a new game, the very first thing we hear from Kratos is him gravely intoning that "the gods have abandoned me" before walking straight off a cliff into the Aegean Sea. This is a warlord who accidentally murdered his own wife and child, and is then cursed by an oracle to have his family's ashes permanently grafted to his skin, ensuring there is nowhere in Greece he can go where his crimes are unrecognized. The only help he receives is being conscripted by the gods to murder Ares, who set him up to begin with, which isn't really helpful at all. The reward is the gods' forgiveness, which does nothing to alleviate his consistent nightmares about the deed. When blood doesn't grant him peace, the gods give him power, letting him take Ares' place as the Greek God of War, beginning a reign so destructive that almighty Zeus himself has to intervene to take him down. That's before finding out Zeus himself is Kratos' father, and Kratos having his revenge means laying waste to his entire domain. Which Kratos does.Continue Reading at GameSpot

Chris Chibnall's period as showrunner on Doctor Who is beginning to fade from public memory, but the scars it has left on the series are still felt by the fandom. Many criticized Chibnall's Timeless Children arc, a key component of which was Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor, a character quickly disposed of after an intense backlash. In this new era of the show, should fans give Martin's Doctor another chance?

Last month, inZOI, a life sim game that is set to release in Early Access at the end of March, received a Teen ESRB rating. This rating suggests that the game will be suitable for players who are 13 years and older, and it is the same rating that was given to The Sims 4, a title that often comes up when discussing inZOI. While these two games, undoubtedly, differ in significant ways, their shared rating means that there will almost certainly be one notable similarity between them.

Harley Quinn closed out its fifth season this week, a frankly incredible achievement for a show (of which there were not few) that premiered on the hyper-niche DC Universe streaming service for DC Comics fans. (Hi, its me; I was the target audience.)As pretty much the only show in the DC Universe stable to reach a broad audience, Harley Quinn deserves to take a big bow and it was hard not to think along those lines while watching this Thursdays episode, The Mess Is the Point. The wrap-up episode felt suspiciously like a series finale, not a season finale.[Ed. note: This post contains some spoilers for Harley Quinn season 5.]The back half of Harley Quinns fifth season has felt like it was setting up a new status quo and looking back nostalgically in multiple ways. Mainstay Frank the Plant got a murder/funeral mini arc, leading Harley and Ivy to a new stage of adult life: parenting Franks offspring/their daughter Frankette. Harley reconciled with her mother, who otherwise had not appeared on the show since season 1, and by the last scene in the finale the so long and thanks for all the fish energy leapt up a level.It wasnt just the reflective piano music and the pan over the series characters having a nice dinner party and dropping lines that illustrate how far theyve come, or name dropping Sy Borgman, a mainstay of seasons 1 and 2 who hasnt appeared since season 3. Then Harley and Ivy start reflecting meaningfully on how they have everything they need, followed by hints at Harleys future of working with her inner psychiatrist self to help Brainiacs other bottle cities adjust to becoming regular size again, and finally both of them leaping out a window to open-ended adventures of fucking shit up.If this was the last time we saw these characters in this configuration? It would be a nice way to send them out.Is there gonna be a Harley Quinn season 6?Harley Quinn has not been renewed since late 2023, and as of this writing there is no official word on whether season 6 will materialize. Spinoff series Kite Man: Hell Yeah! has also yet to be renewed despite premiering in July of 2024. Showrunner and general DC animated comedy guy Dean Lorey seemed optimistic about the future of the Harleyverse in September, indicating there are multiple other spinoffs in development at Warner Bros., and that DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran are behind the subfranchise.Speaking to TVLine more recently, Lorey said both that he and the crew on Harley Quinn are ready for more seasons (we certainly plan to have more seasons), but also indicated that the shows future is currently up in the air (in a future season if there is one, God willing), or at least not ready to be announced.In the best-case scenario, every TV series should get enough notice to be able to wrap itself up in a tidy bow. Not enough do, these days, even with a major franchise to back them up. Paramount Plus Star Trek: Lower Decks used that foreknowledge to throw together a fabulous finale season, but its live-action sibling Star Trek: Discovery had to go into reshoots to cram an extra 40 minutes of series wrap-up into its season finale, making for a very uneven ending.In my mind, Lorey told TVLine about The Mess Is the Point, its not a series finale. I dont think any of us making it want it to be a series finale. But it is the end of Season 5, so if that were to be it, I think it is a nice series finale.In an era when canceled after two seasons is practically a meme, and animation in particular seems to be disappearing from services right and left, whether or not the episode is a series finale or a season finale is almost beside the point. Its just nice to see an animated production have the space, or foreknowledge, to make a satisfying ending either way.