The triumph of Helldivers’ will
One of the sharpest critiques of videogame imperialism ever made.
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The AI in Fire Theft only wants to be your friend, and it’s adorable
Fear of artificial intelligence seems to be on everyone’s lips lately, especially since Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates publicly stated that it will be humanity’s certain doom (I’m paraphrasing). Yet, while technological singularity remains one of sci-fi’s favorite villains, movies like H
Evolve celebrates the oldest game of all
Turtle Rock’s hunting game satisfies some hard-coded desires.
Alone in a crowd in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Non-player characters helped the series double down on its sense of isolation.
Elite: Dangerous’ cosmic vision falls somewhere between a rock and a marketplace
A sci-fi game that can’t imagine beyond the present.
Metro 2033 and the poetics of urban agoraphobia
The terror outside.
Drive across Mars, discover the unreal in Naut
Naut is about not knowing where you are, not knowing what is real. How did you get there? What are you doing? Not just that: it wants you to experience these unanswered questions washing over you with a warm complacency. It’s a sci-fi opera with psyche-fi undertones. But first, a story: I first got
Mayday! Deep Space is your harrowing weekend odyssey
Get ready to wipe your iPad down, occasionally.
Sci-fi film corridors re-purposed as a videogame maze
The history of sci-fi, stitched together in glorious 3D.
To Azimuth is the alien abduction story you can believe in
Explore the human aspect of an alien abduction in a sleepy Alabama town.
I still believe in Destiny
Bungie’s epic is strange, beautiful, and infuriating.
The Last Night explores cyberpunk’s dead end
A two-minute game made in less than a week draws 35 years of sci-fi to a halt.
A robot breaks its rules in The Fall
One way to go?
Ever go to a rave with a bunch of robots? You can, in Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Lights, cameras, transforming robots, lots of action.
The supremely confident songs of Transistor
Supergiant builds an arc.
We are living in a terrifying sci-fi universe, says new museum exhibit
Sci-fi is the domain of Dune debates and fantasizing about the civil rights of autonomous robots, right? It’s cool and important stuff, but often studious, and not something you’d expect to find at an art gallery. But the Science Fiction: New Death exhibit, currently showing now through June 22 at
Cyberpunk Game Jam yields rad cyberpunk games; here are our favs
Last month’s Cyberpunk Game Jam has yielded enough interesting, colorful, diverse games to make Molly Millions do that gross thing where she cries through her mouth. With ten days to work, many devs came out the other side with impressively realized games. A few suggestions: first, prolific jammer/m
The furious anthropomorphism of Bornard
Being an animal isn’t easy.
Watch Dogs is a miracle even if it sucks
Ubisoft unleashes something… big.
Watch The Alien: Isolation devs recreate Alien’s shoddy analog computer systems
The future just got a lot more retro.
A journey in footsteps with Stranded
You take things much slower, absorbing the tink, crunch, and domphs.
Science Fiction vs. Fantasy: Finally a March Madness bracket you care about
OK, that’s presumptuous and headline-grabby and probably not true at all. College basketball is a fine, fine sport, especially this time a year. It’s just I thought our readership would potentially get more out of i09’s amazing March Madness bracket, which pits your favorite sci-fi characters agains
A fascinating video on the modern day tech that science fiction got right
Science fiction has been eerily on the money when it comes to predicting the future, which means there’s still hope for rollerball yet. Phew! I mean, technologies prophesied long ago are found all over the place. For instance, the Internet you’re now mindlessly tapping at to avoid making eye contact
Starbound is classic sci-fi, meaning: violent as hell
To boldly go where no robot has ever gone before.