August’s video game line-up includes a new Marvel fighting game, a dream Star Wars/XCOM crossover, and a rare non-Pokémon game from Game Freak.

The Fantasia International Film Festival is its own tricky beast; every year, more than 125 features, hundreds of shorts, and a whole lot of genre film freaks descend on the University of Concordia in ...

Ulysse Nardin introduces the new 41mm Freak [X] to celebrate 180 years The UN-232 caliber’s flying carousel physically rotates to display the time Offered in recycled steel or rose gold, pricing ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

The International Academy of Astronautics has updated its protocols for confirming and announcing the discovery of alien life. New guidelines address the modern challenges of social media, ...

Steven Spielberg has spent most of his career grappling with the great beyond, whether it be luminous aliens greeting us in song and touch, hungry dinosaurs born of human hubris, cosmic fury springing ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

Creepypasta-inspired horror hit "Backrooms" fits into the niche of 'liminal horror,' which is all about how scary an empty, seemingly endless space can be. But there's something much more dangerous in ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...