Brothers Conflict: Brilliant Blue

There's a funny thing with video game genres in particular: a lot of them are based on just closely tracing the lines of preexisting games, only with a few small mechanical tweaks and a different-enough setting over the top. And few genres are quite as obvious in that regard as the XCOM-alike: a turn-based tactics game based on managing a small squad of permanently-killable allies through a series of close-quarters, grid-based combat encounters, before ducking out to do a bit of RPG-lite housework in some kind of base or mothership metagame. This is Star Wars: Zero Company, a game where you do

The Netflix movie Little Brother, starring John Cena, runs a familiar comedy playbook, but the peaks of Eric André disasters overcome the valleys.

Disclosure Day sees first contact as disruption. Star Trek sees it as the beginning of something bigger.