13 January 2021
Vikings are rarely portrayed as a civilized people, but new game Assassin's Creed Valhalla has it both ways with people playing nice while still overrunning everything in sight, says Jacob Aron
6 January 2021
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss
30 December 2020
Films Top Gun: Maverick, Dune and Babylon, as well as TV documentaries about Greta Thunberg and Stephen Hawking are all due to be released in 2021
30 December 2020
Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor, The Expert System’s Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky and The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers are exciting sci-fi books we're looking forward to in 2021
16 December 2020
Netflix's The Midnight Sky, directed by and starring George Clooney, is set in 2049 following the story of a survivor of an apocalyptic event attempting to salvage what is left of humanity.
9 December 2020
How do humans feel living in a world where robots outperform them, asks The Preserve by Ariel S. Winter. Clare Wilson says it's a great thought experiment
9 December 2020
New Scientist's weekly round-up of the best books, films, TV series, games and more that you shouldn’t miss
4 December 2020
There are lots of great board games if you are interested in science, including Wingspan, a beautifully presented game celebrating bird diversity, and The search for Planet-X, a deductive puzzle in which you are astronomers searching for a mysterious...
26 November 2020
Possessor follows an assassin who can weaponise the minds and bodies of other people. It is extremely gruesome, but if you can stomach it, it is an excellent film, says Linda Marric
25 November 2020
In Superintelligence, Melissa McCarthy plays a character who must show a sentient AI that humanity is worth saving. The film is a strange but captivating mix of rom-com sci-fi and action
