Intelligent, stylish, and brutally hands-off, Routine is one of the most terrifying — and at times terrifyingly frustrating — ...

Drawing on Mandrake, Tennyson, Baudrillard and Jonathan Haidt, this essay examines how social media produces parallel selves, erodes attention, and reshapes childhood, ageing and public life—raising ...

Ah, the licensed video game. Once a collection of underwhelming retellings of big-screen blockbusters, littered with haunting polygonal nightmares (Hagrid, that’s you) and aimless Atari attempts (yes, ...

Otherwise, power-ups are played safe in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Having the 'psychic' label doesn't stop morph ball bombs, the grapple beam, and various beam cannon types from acting the same than ...

China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

Whenever a game goes through a lengthy and somewhat tumultuous development cycle, as Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has, the first ...

A richly atmospheric return to the Metroid Prime formula delivers memorable worlds and classic exploration—even if some design choices keep it from reaching the series’ highest heights.

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...