Whether you're running from Xenomorphs in an '80s Atari 2600 single-player maze or you're Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda in 2014's acclaimed Alien: Isolation, the Alien franchise has been rocking the ...

In the late '70s and early '80s, Atari was the king of the video game industry, both in terms of arcade and home platform titles. The latter was led by the Atari 2600, an early home console that ...

When the video game crash of 1983 shook the industry to its core, a lot of the warning signs could be traced to the preceding year. An oversaturation of the home gaming platforms flooded the market as ...

On Friday, we covered the Pentagon's UFO file drop because a filmmaker first showed the world a spaceship in 1902 (Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon) and, ever since, Hollywood has created thousands ...

Hollywood owns the UFO genre and has actual standards for this sort of thing. The government needs to step it up. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Now, suddenly, the U.S. government wants in. The ...

Atari was one of the foremost video game companies in the world during the early 1980s. That was until the video game crash of 1983, from which Atari never truly recovered. Although Atari remained a ...

Your thumbs remember things your brain forgot, like the exact rhythm needed to execute a perfect hadouken. The National Videogame Museum in Frisco proves that some skills never truly leave you, even ...

Omar Gallaga has covered technology, digital culture and other topics for outlets including CNET, NPR, WIRED, Texas Monthly, MSNBC, Consumer Reports, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The ...

Following its release on February 8, 2024, “Helldivers 2” quickly became a favorite amongst PS5 and PC players. The game won multiple awards, including BAFTA’s Best Multiplayer Game, TIGA’s Game of ...