Simon Beck likes to make art in the snow. Not little snow angels or snowmen. Enormous pieces that can take up the side of a mountain.

It's no secret I've stayed away from Kickstarter topics, as the whole thing by now strikes me as an Etsy for things that don't exist. That said, there are some pretty cool projects there that have some reasonable fund-raising expectations and stand a good chance at delivering on their promise. This is one, a Space…

Girls in bikinis. Classic video games. Star Wars characters. Put them all together and you get… art?

In the event that you have an extra $20,000 or so lying around, you probably wouldn't want to spend it on a watch. But on the off chance that you do, boy, have I got a treat for you.

As you may be aware, there's a belief that the Mayans predicted the end of the world this month. They didn't. But just the thought of the apocalypse has people dreaming up ways they're going to meet the end of days.

Artist Invader has a theme: Space Invaders. His homages to the little 8-bit enemies show up all over the world, on art and loose in wild, showing up in all manner of places where one might not ordinarily expect them.

Space Invaders: they move mindlessly. In formation, they slowly attack, heading towards earth with a terrifying, robotic certainty. But what about before these invaders were selected to wage war on humanity? What happened before then? In this brilliant comic, we get to see the Space Invader origin story - watch as he…

I admit it's really strange to see Pac-Man with legs, but I love this picture nonetheless.

In 1980, Bally released a pinball machine called Space Invaders. It was about as shameless a rip-off as you could hope for, as despite the opportunity to lift iconic imagery from Taito's arcade classic of the same name, it instead stole designs from Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien.

A Moscow police force called in the bomb squad last night to investigate a "suspicious object" that turned out to be an alien from the arcade game Space Invaders.