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[satoshi-mochida]

Bloober Team announces psychological thriller Star Trek: Shadow Frontier for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC - Gematsu

Publisher Paramount Games Studio and developer Bloober Team have announced Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, a science-fiction psychological thriller. It will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam in 2027.

“We’ve long admired the way Bloober Team crafts deeply immersive, atmospheric experiences that keep players on the edge of their seats,” said Paramount Games Studio senior vice president and head of creative and production Shawn Kittelsen in a press release. “For Star Trek: Shadow Frontier, it was essential to partner with a studio that could both honor that legacy and push it forward. We have full confidence in Bloober’s ability to deliver a game that does justice to the Star Trek name while bringing something bold and new to the beloved franchise.”

Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno added, “We’ve been waiting a long time to finally share what we’ve been working on. As lifelong fans of science-fiction, Star Trek has always held a special place in our hearts. By combining that passion with what we do best, horror, we’ve partnered with Paramount to create something truly unique: a new adventure set in a beloved universe, enriched with our own signature layer of dark, psychological thriller. We’re genuinely excited about this journey, and our hope is to honor the legacy of Star Trek in a way that feels both respectful yet refreshingly different.”

Here is an overview of the game, via Bloober Team:

About

Star Trek: Shadow Frontier is a story-driven, action-adventure set in the expansive Star Trek universe. Step into the fractured mind of former Lieutenant Ro Laren (voiced by Michelle Forbes) as she seeks to rescue an old friend by embarking on a harrowing journey of survival and self-discovery.

Explore: A Trek Into the Unknown

Star Trek: Shadow Frontier is a mature, story-driven, 3rd person action-adventure set in the expansive Star Trek universe. After crashing onto a distant planet overtaken by a strange consciousness, Ro Laren must survive in an environment that is as breathtaking as it is lethal. In true Star Trek fashion, Ro’s mission is driven by duty and purpose. But here, discovery comes at a terrible cost. The more she uncovers, the deeper she is pulled into a corrupted labyrinth where her memories twist and the planet threatens to sever her connection to reality. Only by solving the mysteries of this strange world can Ro hope to make peace with the demons of her past, boldly going into the heart of darkness like never before.

Investigate: The Lethal Planet

A planet-wide entity has overtaken the landscape… and weaponizes it. Creatures spawned within this environment patrol the lands and strike without warning, forcing Ro into desperate fights and narrow escapes. Each encounter will test your resolve as much as your skill. You’ll need to stay alert, pay attention to your surroundings and choose whether to engage in combat or outmaneuver your enemies.

Survive: Fear Takes on Many Forms

The hostile ecosystem poses a constant threat to Ro’s existence. It seeks to absorb Ro’s consciousness, burrowing deep into her mind and plaguing her with haunting visions. Environmental hazards and obstacles lurk around every corner. Exploration is both your only path to salvation and your potential undoing. Make full use of iconic Star Trek technology to gain an advantage: use your Tricorder to scan and analyze items and rely on your trusty Phaser to solve puzzles and fend off enemies.

Star Trek Like You’ve Never Seen It Before

Star Trek: Shadow Frontier charts a bold new course for Star Trek: a mature, psychological action-adventure that honors the franchise’s core values of curiosity and courage. Venture with Ro Laren beyond the edge of charted space… and beyond the limits of sanity. Balanced and varied gameplay blends exploration, puzzles, combat and cinematic set-pieces into a gripping, story-driven adventure that rewards patience, observation, and smart decision-making.

Explore. Investigate. Survive.

Watch the announcement teaser trailer below.

Announce Teaser Trailer

[argentconflagration]

when the subject of "why do people believe things that are seriously wrong and harmful" comes up it feels like you kinda hear one of two perspectives:

"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"

or

"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"

and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)

they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)

they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)

they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)

they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)

they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)

they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)

they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)

the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)

you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:

natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)

being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)

random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)

you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up

and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.

i know you're doing your best. we're all doing our best.

[chumbology]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People in the notes being like "these are weaknesses of neurotypical people; my autism means I don't have these flaws": yes you do, and this post is about you specifically. People who believe that they're somehow magically immune to cognitive biases are the ones who tend to fall victim to them the hardest.

[greelin]

please watch trigun 98

[parkchanwoohoo]

Do you think cavemen ever got humiliated and had the kms urge? Like "Grug so embarrassed, Grug jump into tar pit" and then Glarg is like "Noooo everyone forget soon" and Grug is like "Grug going to do it for real"

[creatingblackcharacters]

#Make Racists Scared Again 2026

[creatingblackcharacters]

Share if you want people to know they should be scared to be racist around you 👊🏾

[akajustmerry]

all jokes aside I do think the Emperor Cleon clone dynasty concept in Apple's Foundation is a near perfect sci-fi allegory for white supremacist imperial rule. Because white supremacy really is just the same white ruler over and over and any derivative from what's been established by the institution is considered contamination, and this same person who is not a person but an institution and ideology is robbed of their personhood so that they can continuously rob others of personhood.

The Cleons are so intentionally isolated, even from physical touch, by those they rule over with only one another to learn from. Their staff isn't even permitted to keep memories of interactions with them. Perpetrating an infinite loop, a never-ending echo chamber of their right to rule that all but guarantees their total de-personing of anyone who isn't them. a cycle that can only decay. their only point of meaningful contact outside of one another is literally a non-person.

also, Lady Demerzel is a robot, belonging to a group Empire genocided to preserve their rule. But she was spared and reprogrammed to serve the Cleons and only them as a slave. this also strengthens the allegory of the Cleons as white supremacy. Supramicist empires will designate a group as a subclass to genocide them, but ultimately still rely on that subclass's labour for their rule. After all, the word robot shares an etymology with the czech word for slave. Demerzel is both, meaning their main point of contact outside of one another is literally a being programmed to be their slave. even the most basic element of personhood, interacting with other people, is not possible for the Cleons.

And in living this way on purpose, they can only dehumanise and de-person. it is all they know how to do, and all they allow themselves to do. If one of them fails or deviates, the other 2 police the rebel. Killing one is not enough. Changing one is not enough. There are always 3: dawn, day, and dusk. the past, the present, and the future. all of it colonised and controlled, so there is no point to anyone imagining a different future, not even the Cleons themselves. And even if by some miracle all 3 falter, then Lady Demerzel annihilates them, because she is programmed to protect the established institution, and deviations cannot be allowed.

Truly, a near-perfect allegory for how white imperial rule operates by inflicting mass depersonification for the purposes of exploitation that can only be achieved through a de-personing of the institution itself, taking the form of one man. The Cleons are such a genius addition to Foundation on so many levels. Not just because Lee Pace is evil and hot, but because it conveys all the ways colonial Empires are simultaneously all-powerful and vulnerable to decay. I love it so much!!

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[crazy-pages]

The aircraft are all under the command of the Australian government, which has declared that the nuclear arsenals are not their problem and that no aircraft will help anyone out with that problem. Your grandfather did fly with the bracelet one time, but he only got away with that because no one involved knew what the bracelet was and it would have been a huge deal if anyone had realized what was up. If you charter a flight towards the world's only hydraulic press, the Australians will know and throw lightning at the plane.

[kandoros]

You can't fly to Arizona because the FBI has a massive radar installation located right next to the hydraulic press, and part way through the story Seal Team Six gets upgraded to also being fighter pilots.

[prismatic-bell]

Also, one of the guys on your team who used to be a Green Beret has decided the best way to solve this problem is if he becomes President and takes over the nuclear arsenal himself, because the bracelet told him so.

[exlibra]

i have this half-baked idea about molly o’brien working on a school project on the different species and cultures on ds9 and she has to go around interviewing people about their home planets and their animals/plants/climate

worf (has barely been on qo’nos): ”the targ is a beautiful and honorable animal.” end of interview. 0/10.

jadzia: in-depth and quite disgusting explanation about how the symbiont works, including the transplantation process. way too many medical details are included but molly seems to like it. 5/10.

garak: in-depth explanation about the different animals and plants on prime with a long detour into what types of poetry have been written about each one. he goes home and drinks himself to sleep afterwards. alcohol poisoning/10.

quark: ”yeah ferenginar fucking SUUUUUUUCKS. write that down, kid. S-U-C-K-S” useless/10.

[exlibra]

odo: slithers into a drain to avoid questions about the founders and also because he’s scared of human children. slime/10

julian: HE’S GOT SO MUCH TO TELL YOU ABOUT EARTH AND ALSO BIG PUPPY EYES. irrelevant to the assignment/10

[unamccormack]

Miles: lovingly prepares a full presentation about the birdlife of Ireland; Molly doesn’t ask him. Sad/10

[mousidy]

very strange cottage industry on youtube of giving exhaustive "critiques" of harry potter that amount to things like "the magic school is dangerous and that's bad!!!" and treating that with equal severity as the fatphobia or the slavery apologia, then patting themselves on the back as if this amounts to some kind of praxis

cinemasins is not praxis lol. how about materially supporting and protecting trans people from joanne and forgetting about her wizard books

[mousidy]

I loved harry potter growing up. it made me feel seen as an abused and closeted kid. I idolized and looked up to joanne, wanting to become an author like her

then she started funnelling all her wizard book money into destroying the rights of my people and I resolved not to give her any more of my money

I didn't have to reevaluate the quality of her writing to do this. whether she's good at keeping her worldbuilding consistent or whatever has nothing to do with my decision to boycott her work. who cares how good or bad her writing is. she's killing trans people

[jayalaw]

OP, you get it. This is exactly the problem.

[ladyshinga]

OceanGate tried to scrub the internet clean of traces that it ever existed, taking down its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages

OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration company that created the Titan submersible, has removed its Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn a

poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the "reblog things forever" website

[oliviawebsite]

you have to be able to defend people who are receiving unjust treatment even if they annoy you even if you personally find them extremely annoying you still have to be able to stand up and say "well thats fucked up"

[pusheenthenerdcat]

the moral willpower required for "i hate their guts but my personal ethical standard is no xyz and i cannot set the precedent of making an exception for them" is imennse but important work

[todaysbird]

fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d

[todaysbird]

I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty

[todaysbird]

I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.

[fantasticait]

Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.

When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.

Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.

See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.

So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:

Dear President Obama, I am writing about the environment. I am sad that the Great Barrier Reef is hurt. Also the Amazon Rainforest. Can you help? PLEASE DON'T WRITE BACK TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG AGAIN. WE ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT BO. WE COMPLETED THE MAZE AND COLORED HIM IN. It is good that you love your pet a lot. But try to remember the environment. It is also important.

[ishipallthings]

[thecreaturecodex]

Samebito

“The Samebito’s Tears”  © deviantart user chasmosaur

[The samebito comes from a rather different background than many of the yokai proper we’ve showcased here. Rather than originating in picture scrolls written explicitly to create yokai or in folktales incorporated into those scrolls, the samebito is a monster with a literary pedigree. The earliest record of these critters appears in a gesaku, the Edo-period equivalent of a short story. Samebito were brought to the attention of the west by Lacfadio Hearn, who did much to publicize Japanese traditions with his series of books.

I haven’t been able to find a single illustration of a samebito that matches what I’ve got in my head–I see the samebito as looking something like an anthropomorphic goblin shark.]

Samebito CR 12 N Monstrous Humanoid An enormous creature stands here, a cross between an ogre and a shark. It clutches a polearm in its clawed hands. A beard of tendrils like an octopus’ arms dangles at the base of its massive jaws, and its nose points far beyond its emerald eyes.

Despite their monstrous appearances, samebito have the same range of personalities as humans do—they are as likely to be kindly as they are to be cruel. These martial giants of the deep seas maintain their own civilization far below the waves, but most of them find employment as bodyguards, artisans or elite troops for more powerful oceanic creatures such as dragons, storm giants and even kraken. They typically approach humanoids with cautious skepticism, knowing that their monstrous appearances create problems. A samebito befriended, however, is a fast and loyal ally.

Samebito are carnivores, hunting whales and other oceanic leviathans for sustenance. All samebito possess some innate magical skill, which many of them turn to the creation of magical weapons. The forges of the samebito, built around abyssal volcanoes, are said to be some of the most wondrous on the Material Plane. Although it has been said that the tears of a samebito become pearls and rubies, this is merely a reference to the vast stores of wealth that these treasures bestow upon the samebito.

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[prokopetz]

Messing with the Babylon 5 fans by arguing that J Michael Straczynski's best work was Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future and it's all been downhill from there.

[bigscaryd]

This is The REAL Ghostbusters erasure.

[prokopetz]

That would probably be a less effective troll because in my experience a lot of Babylon 5 fans would actually agree that his episodes of The Real Ghostbusters are the better work.

[deluske]

I had a Captain Power coloring/activity book the size of a phone book when I was little. I never saw the show. What little I've pieced together about it makes it sound like it wasn't a show for people of an age for coloring books.

[artbyblastweave]

People always get so weird about my participation in the Flat Earth Advocacy Group. For the last time, we aren't cranks, we aren't conspiracy theorists, we're definitely not geocentrists, and our policy think tank is fully aware of what shape the planet currently is

[gracefelldownaflightofstairs]

I love showing my non-Doctor Who friends the clip from the five doctors where everybody gets abducted by the weird triangles without context and refusing to elaborate

[polarity-disturbed]

I love this show

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yes.

[thecreaturecodex]

Hematothere

[Roger Corman really loved the trope of monsters that eat people and gain their memories and voices. Attack of the Crab Monsters, Night of the Blood Beast, hell even Little Shop of Horrors]

Hematothere CR 12 LE Monstrous Humanoid This bulky humanoid appears to be composed of soil—rocks are embedded in its form and tendrils as if of roots snake along its body. Its large head features a short trunk-like snout, under which sneers a large maw bristling with fangs. Its muscular arms end in large clawed hands.

Hematotheres are creatures of living earth with a strong affinity with death and negative energy. It has been theorized that they began their existence as gargoyles haunting unhallowed graveyards, slowly being transformed by fell energies. Other sages hold that the hematothere is native to another planet, and travels from world to world by assuming liquid form and hiding within meteorites. Regardless of their origins, hematotheres desire nothing more than to be worshipped as living gods, and use their unusual powers to achieve it.

The hematothere life cycle requires the use of a humanoid corpse, which is restored to life while serving as an incubator for the creature’s young. Although a hematothere lays dozens of tiny eggs in the host it selects, as they grow the ravenous creatures devour each other as well as the host’s tissues, eventually resulting in a single offspring per host. The hematothere’s spawn constantly communicate telepathically both with their parent and with the host itself, subtly changing the host’s behavior so that it is friendly to the hematothere and sympathetic with its goals. Hematotheres thus seek to resurrect and control figures of civil or military authority, the better to carry out its whims.

Hematotheres are charming and wheedling creatures despite their monstrous appearances, and use lies and half-truths to convince people that they are fonts of eternal life and wisdom. Their ability to sift through memories and mimic voices give them ample proof that those consumed by it “live forever”, and they often gain new victims from the ill, elderly and desperate. Although they are generally cowardly they are fierce fighters when cornered, using their powerful natural weapons and a slew of spell-like abilities. They most fear those truly touched with divine power, as positive energy burns them as if it were fire.

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