Summer heat got you down? These nine video games offer the perfect escape, transporting players to frozen wildernesses, ...

With “Grand Theft Auto VI” looming in November, some developers have moved up their best games’ release dates.

Scientists say moons around rogue planets wandering through the galaxy could remain warm enough for life thanks to tidal heating and hydrogen-rich atmospheres. These dark, starless worlds may have had ...

No Man’s Sky nails the thrill of alien discovery, but one upcoming PS5 survival game makes planetary exploration feel ...

The first Subnautica – which I'll call SN1 for simplicity – is an open-world survival crafting game set on an alien ocean ...

Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...

Alien: Isolation has been touted as one of the best Alien games ever made, if not the best. Despite the praise, it’s taken a surprising 12 years for a proper sequel to be announced, but we finally saw ...

One of the best horror games of the 2010s was Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, but it certainly took some time for audiences to see it in its proper light. Though it initially received mixed ...

With Summer Game Fest 2026 having come to an end, we’ve all been thrilled about the unexpected reveal trailer for Alien: Isolation 2. To our delight, we’ve received hints that there was a demo shown ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. It was love at ...