Alien Fear

Questionable Tweets. Claims of legal threats. Edited resumes. An article that named names one day and didn't the…

Editor's note: Our guy at Thwacke, a Canadian outfit that advises game developers in all things science, writes to…

I've lost video game troops before. I've sent virtual men bravely to their digital deaths. In StarCraft, in Company…

I can't say I was happy when my wife's friend brought over her seven-year-old terrorist of a child, Charlie, one…

With each new year, it feels like I'm watching another horror series becomes less horrific. Resident Evil, Alien,…

I've seen it far too many times. A video game character leaps from the top of a staircase, flying through the air,…

A society leaves behind a pretty decent map of its psychology in the culture it creates. For example, the 1950s…

After teasing us like an after credits scene at a Marvel movie for ages, Zen Studios prepares to unleash four Aveng…

I can summarize my experience designing user interfaces like this: if you were to place a refrigerator and a toilet…

After over a decade in Japan, this week I got a letter from the Japanese government. It said that the alien…