I’ve shared videos of my Destiny spacecraft flying cinematically over the planet and taken snaps of my Exo looking cool against a dramatic backdrop. A friend still regularly shares beautiful Skyrim vistas on Facebook.
Computer cheats and gaming capital: The RPGs edition
VPN company SurfShark has been poking at stats from Google and YouTube, as much as Alphabet’s two search engines make visible, to work out which computer games people look for cheats.
What did they not mess up? The most popular sci-fi and fantasy book-to-film adaptations
Superproof combined IMDB and Goodreads data to work out which sci-fi and fantasy books are popular, which have movie adaptations of which of those adaptations people actually liked!
The best Marvel post-credit scenes… wait, data says Morbius wins?
Morbius, released in 2022, received a lot of negative feedback from critics
Reddit data shows life in the Walk Dead, Dune and Game of Thrones
It’s clear now that some legacy fandoms that we’ve all loved for a long time aren’t going anywhere soon and we’re likely to be seeing the likes of The Office and GTA for many years to come.
Most Americans are Neutral Good on the D&D alignment scale
24,000 Americans were asked two questions in an extensive survey, and the professionals at YouGov US were able to determine their D&D alignment.
Market share stats: The global state of streaming video on demand
HBO and Hulu came to nought here in the UK, and we have no Paramount+, despite having all the Star Trek.
The geekiest theme tunes in the UK
When it comes to recognisability, the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genres arguably have some of the most unique and iconic theme tunes that even non-watchers or fans may know through general pop culture references.
More than half of gamers have changed their identity to dodge abuse from others
There’s a horrible and compelling study on Preply about gamers, racism and hate speech.
Where in our world are the monsters?
Monsters are real, but sadly, I mean people as we’re capable of being a genuinely monstrous race. The stuff of myth and legend are just that; myth and legend.
