Rare carnivorous plants bloom in Plumas National Forest | Bartell's Backroads

Deep within the Butterfly Botanical Area in Plumas National Forest, thousands of rare California pitcher plants grow in a ...
Alien vs. Predator Galaxy

Hot Toys’ Ellen Ripley (2027)

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Aliens with the Hot Toys Ellen Ripley 1/6 scale figure. Compare the Collector, Deluxe, and limited Artisan editions here!
Rock Paper Shotgun

"You can literally reroute a river into a desert and cause it to bloom": Star Wars Galaxies lead says of his new sandbox MMO Stars Reach

Stars Reach is the new MMO from Ralph Koster, creative lead on Star Wars Galaxies, and it is a fully physically simulated sci ...

Viral Fayetteville kitten Bug now fighting for specialized care

"He does surgery, answers the phones, so we're trying to make sure he's as healthy as possible so he can be here a long time.
Psychology Today

What a Nightmare's Spectrum of Fear Can Reveal

In a nightmare, the part that scares you or makes you uncomfortable often holds the solution to your current dilemma. It may ...

3 decades later, John Carpenter's masterclass thriller still hits like a punch to the gut

John Carpenter's They Live wasn't just a sci-fi satire—it may have predicted AI-driven algorithms, media manipulation, and widening inequality.
Rock Paper Shotgun

Before Darkness Falls is an Aliens: Dark Descent-style tactics game from former Frostpunk devs, and I did enjoy dying in its depths

The other day I posted a comment wondering whether anybody has ever made a colony simulator set in the Aliens universe, with players raising the Weyland-Yutani flag on planets that contain absolutely ...