In the 18 years since BioShock redefined what a derelict space station could feel like, exactly zero major releases have dared to ask whether the station itself might be the protagonist. RetroSpace, releasing on 1 October 2026 across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC via Steam, is not content with the comparison its genre invites.

On 28 September 2026, the entertainment press celebrated a Star Wars announcement that does not, strictly speaking, exist. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story: Jon Watts, the director who turned Tom Holland's Spider-Man into a nearly £3 billion trilogy (approximately £2.96 billion across three films), would helm the next chapter of the Skywalker Saga. Simon Kinberg, architect of Fox's X-Men franchise and consultant on The Force Awakens, had been writing the screenplay since 2024. The narrative practically wrote itself — Star Wars was returning to its saga roots with proven blockbuster talent.

Some creative partnerships announce themselves with press-release fanfare and vanish into the content churn before the year is out. Others carry the quiet weight of inevitability — the sense that two artists have found the exact project that only they could make together. Odysseus Rising, the Audible Original arriving on 25 February 2027, belongs to the second category.

Most detective stories eventually lead to a locked room, a missing witness or something unpleasant buried behind the house. Lanterns has a different idea. Open the box, step through the portal and take your dead colleague with you. He might be useful. He might also have some difficult questions about what happened to him.

Every imagined universe begins somewhere surprisingly ordinary: a notebook, a spare room, a timeline filled with unfinished clips. The challenge is turning that first idea into something another person can experience. Perhaps you are recording a discussion about The Expanse, making a short film about an abandoned research station, or building a channel around science-fiction art and analysis.

In 2026, the global anime market is projected to exceed £24 billion for the first time — with streaming platforms alone driving an estimated £6 billion in international revenue. Space sci-fi, the genre that gave us Macross, Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop, is commanding an outsized share of that capital. Amazon Prime Video, Crunchyroll, and Netflix have collectively outspent the entire UK domestic film industry on anime acquisition and production this year.

Here is a sentence that should unsettle every space sci-fi fan who has memorised the rain-slicked alleyways of 2019 Los Angeles: the next chapter in the Blade Runner saga does not look like Blade Runner at all. When Blade Runner 2099 premieres on Amazon Prime Video on 25 November 2026, it will arrive not with the charcoal skies and neon downpours that defined Ridley Scott's 1982 original and Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel, but with what showrunner Silka Luisa has termed "sunshine noir".

Here is a number that should stop every space sci-fi gaming fan in their tracks: £87 million. That is the approximate sterling equivalent of the revenue that Dune: Awakening generated on Steam alone in its first ten months — before a single console player had touched it. On 22 September 2026, Funcom's survival MMO finally arrived on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, opening the franchise's most ambitious interactive bet to an entirely new audience.