Horror movies are solid investments for studios because they're usually so cheap, but these are the most expensive horror ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

Disney's Alien: Earth ended an era for the famous monsters, but the prequel series taking a big risk with the direction it's ...

Like a shark hunter who has lost track of the shark, or an adventurer unable to locate the Ark of the Covenant, Steven ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...

Sega and Creative Assembly have finally officially revealed Alien: Isolation 2 with a new trailer at Summer Game Fest 2026. While the trailer stops short of announcing a release date or even a release ...

In 1977, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind imagined contact with aliens as an event inspiring awe. Five years later, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial envisioned another arrival as a ...

Polygon Summer Game Fest 2026 Live game reveals, world premiere trailers, and what’s next from 40+ developers, publishers, and hardware makers. Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is a co-op shooter where you ...

The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

When the Trump administration registered the domains Aliens.gov and Alien.gov in March, UFO conspiracy theorists wondered whether they might finally get answers they’d long awaited. But coming on the ...