Browsing: PostApocalyptic

Some post-apocalyptic series run for seasons, like AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” one of the best zombie shows ever made. There’s also Apple’s Silo, which offers a masterclass in world-building and sci-fi storytelling. Others barely make it past a season, but thanks to streaming, they find a new audience years later and the hope of a…

The story-driven survival sandbox game Permafrost is set to officially launch in early access on Steam on October 9, introducing players to a post-apocalyptic arctic world where exploration and strategy will be paramount to overcoming the brutal reality of an endless winter. Permafrost ranked among the Top 20 Steam Next Fest Demo titles, and fans…

Like movies, post-apocalyptic nightmares are a setting video games will never abandon. From the Fallout franchise to more recent examples like Hideo Kojima’s wildly inventive Death Stranding series, gamers are more than familiar with exploring ravaged worlds destroyed by nuclear weapons, zombies, or invisible beings from another dimension.

One of the first video game properties that comes to mind whenever post-apocalyptic premises are involved is “Fallout.” Starting in 1997, the series takes place in a retro-futuristic world devastated by nuclear warfare, with much of humanity taking cover in subterranean fallout shelters. The games feature largely open-world gameplay encouraging a tremendous amount of freedom…

There is no shortage of possible video game settings. From 13th-century medieval Europe to the distant future in an entirely different galaxy, developers have imagined hundreds of places where their games can take place. However, to this day, one of the most common and popular settings for a video game is in some kind of…

Recently, we went hands-on with the upcoming game Afterworld from Paradox Interactive. Here are our thoughts from a very early look at it.

While both sci-fi and horror are popular genres overall when it comes to television, there’s a specific type of both stories that really resonates with fans: the post-apocalyptic story. There is something about end of the world as we know it scenarios that not only fascinate but make for great television as well. It doesn’t…

Get ready to head into the ruins of America, as Image Comics has announced that the White Sky, Vol. 1 trade paperback will be arriving this fall.

The next Mobile Suit Gundam anime, announced at San Diego Comic-Con, is Mobile Suit Gundam RG: XARX-ZERO, a post-apocalyptic title that shares the same setting as the upcoming Gundam: Rogue Orbitaction game, but is set almost 100 years earlier. Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 co-director) is directing the…