Horror is reflective of societal fears — and horror games of today are telling us much more about what scares us.

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In 'Project Hail Mary,' a human and an alien figure out how to cooperate across space. In real life, we can't see that fellow ...

An Iranian gay couple seeking asylum in the U.S. now faces deportation back to Iran as immigration policies tighten and ...

When you think of Ridley Scott’s Alien, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The Xenomorphs, Ripley’s bravado, Kane’s ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

A group of people step inside a sealed habitat — and for the next year, they won’t really be on Earth anymore. Inside this ...

Perhaps the reason Project Hail Mary hits the spot in the spring of 2026 is that novelist Andy Weir, who wrote the 2021 novel ...

Problems of the natural world can be addressed through, and only through, mastery and cooperation might seem like a truism, ...

We are living in a time period where humans are spending less time together than ever, and more and more mechanisms in the market are facilitating this. Cultural trends and a host of demographic ...

Alien Isolation 2 made headlines when the sequel was first announced in October 2024. The announcement was part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the first Alien Isolation game, which was ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...