Even with all the wild genre mashups I've seen over the last several years, I don't think I could have ever predicted a survival horror RTS. And that's basically what Aliens: Dark Descent boils down ...

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

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 ...

Summer Game Fest, one of two annual game showcases hosted by Geoff Keighley and the spiritual successor of E3, just wrapped up. While there were plenty of exciting adventure, racing, and action games ...

The teams must work together to build the Prismatic Core in the Space Anomaly by completing three categories of missions called Purge, Restoration, and Sabotage, with the eventual goal of taking down ...

THIS is the shocking moment a creepy-crawly stunned a holidaymaker after appearing from beneath the rim of his hotel toilet. The multi-legged beast – believed to be an Amazonian giant centipede – had ...

I was skeptical before playing Directive 8020, because I didn't think it had the power to surprise me. The pre-release marketing material all seemed to spoil what the main threat in the game is: an ...

[This is mostly Brendan's readme from 2014. Links to CGN and Apolyton are broken now, but I've left them as they were.] This is a comprehensive set of fixes to bugs, crashes, and exploits found in Sid ...

Tension. It's the fundamental for fear. Your mind can get you quicker than anything lurking in the shadows. Argonaut didn't so much make a game with Alien: Resurrection; it built a sky-high wall of ...

Starship Troopers, directed by Paul Veorhoven, is a fantastic movie. Instead of depicting fascism from arm’s length, the movie completely immerses you in fictional military propaganda. The movie ...

Plenty of video games put players up against hordes of alien combatants, going all the way back to the earliest days of the medium with Space Invaders. Generations of players have cut down countless ...