Avarya opens with Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics which remind us that robots must now allow humans to come to harm. This includes not following orders that may conflict with those directives.
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No such thing as a bloodless war: 86–EIGHTY-SIX trailer
The Republic of San Magnolia has long been under attack from the neighboring Giadian Empire’s army of unmanned drones known as the Legion.
Chamber: John Harper’s Paragon system gets a new RPG
The year is 1968. Two years ago, on January 7, 1966, an alien energy, now known as THE SIGNAL, reached the Earth.
Pew Pew: Bounty Hunters in Space look to one-shot Kickstarter
Fainting Goat Games have a one-shot campaign that uses (slightly modified) Havoc Brigade rules on Kickstarter called Pew Pew. It’s about bounty hunters in space.
Free to Download: Vortex Flux unique sci-fi RPG
Vortex Flux looks excellent. The book is white on black, enhanced with colour and all 350-pages are in landscape, designed to fit the shape of your desktop monitor.
Short film: Exile
In Exile, a local Sheriff finds himself woken up by his worried daughter with the news that something unnatural is lurking in the woods outside.
Fantasy Grounds rolls out a sci-fi theme
The virtual tabletop program Fantasy Grounds has released a new skin for the software which transforms it into a sci-fi styled console.
The exploding b-movie Cicada gets a trailer
In the aftermath of an environmental disaster, four eccentric friends led by a disgraced baseball player have a mission to protect Lose Angeles from a swarm of giant bloodthirsty cicadas.
Maybe Someday: Stories of Promise, Visions of Hope trailer
The 12+ anthology will get a same-day release for digital and paper from the indie publisher A Wave Blue World.
Netflix’s Eden trailer asks “Why am I not a robot?”
Together, the two robots secretly raise the child in a safe haven outside Eden.
