This story first appeared in Trying!, a thoughtful, funny, wide-ranging daily newsletter featuring essays from the mind of Matt Gross. You can sign up for them here. Those were simple aliens for ...

This post contains spoilers for Vince Gilligan’s new Apple TV series Pluribus. If it would make you unhappy to read them before seeing the first two episodes, keep this tab open until you watch them.

“Bugonia” opens not with action, but with a conversation: two men, Don and Teddy, talking about bees. Teddy explains colony collapse disorder: a phenomenon where bees abandon their queen, leaving the ...

Like everything else in the modern landscape, Alien exists not only on the big screen but in comics, video games, toys, and even television. Despite the movies largely keeping xenomorphs defined by ...

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In this video, we sculpt a miniature version of Fortnite’s Hive map, featuring glowing Slurpy Lake, termite-style bug towers with real fog, Bugs, Swarmers, and a tiny Peely. The creation process ...

When we meet over Zoom in late September, the artist Manuela Solano greets me in her club outfit: white leather jacket with fringe, white crop top, white hot pants, and a custom white leather harness ...

Spoilers follow for Alien: Earth. One of the most controversial – or thrilling, depending on how you look at it – aspects of FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth is that, for the first time on film, at least… ...

After Alien: Romulus proved to be a success for 20th Century Studios, grossing $350 million globally, sequel plans were quickly announced, with its director, Fede Alvarez, thought to be returning.

Hive stashes are large glowing growths that come out of pools of water and emit a goldish, orange light. You need to interact with them to pop them open, which will drop some loot on the ground. This ...