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.

Space sci‑fi’s boldest ideas don’t always come from distant galaxies — sometimes they come from a filmmaker obsessed with preserving the art that shaped him. After decades of planning, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art finally opened on 22 September 2026, unveiling a 300,000‑square‑foot tribute to the power of visual storytelling.

Science fiction has promised us wearable displays, responsive environments and controls that seem to anticipate what we want.

Unfortunately, it has also inspired plenty of gadgets whose main achievement is occupying a USB port.

What if the greatest space sci-fi film of 2026 was actually conceived in 1996? That is the beautifully paradoxical hook of Ray Gunn — a retro-futurist animated noir that director Brad Bird has been nursing for three decades, and which finally drops its first trailer today ahead of a December Netflix premiere.

The best sci-fi home cinema gear should make a fictional universe easier to inhabit—not give you another system to troubleshoot. Our approach is therefore simple: choose equipment for the room, the films and the way you actually watch.

There’s a moment in every era of design when reality quietly overtakes imagination. In the 1970s, NASA prototypes looked stranger than the sci‑fi films that tried to imitate them. In the 1990s, concept cars flirted with cyberpunk long before Hollywood caught on. And now, in 2026, something uncanny is happening again.

The Ark season 3 has not disappointed. From the terrors on Ross to the mysteries surrounding Homebase, the series has embraced its search-and-rescue direction with welcome ambition.

Welcome to Part 2 of our Space Sci-Fi Arena feature. In part 1 five of the galaxy’s most legendary space sci-fi warriors—Master Chief, Iron Man, Space Marine, Predator, and Din Djarin—were enrolled into our ultimate arena. Together, these space sci-fi icons set the gold standard for intergalactic combat, each a testament to the boundless imagination and tactica of the genre.