FTL: Faster Than Light is free on the Epic Games Store, but you do not have to be faster than light to claim it. You do have to be reasonably prudent, though. For 24 hours (but even less time than that when you're reading this), Subset...

Game of the year candidate Outer Wilds lands on a new platform next week. After successfully touching down on PC and Xbox One in June, it sets out to explore PS4 on October 15. It'll cost $25. It's tough to nail down exactly what Oute...

We've got a giveaway for ya! We've got Intel Science Bundles for Star Trek Online's newest update, Awakening. Science! I hate science, not gonna lie. It was my worst subject in school, and to this day I hear a TED Talk about science and I w...

The roguelike space sim Everspace is getting a sequel on PC and consoles, but it's dropping those frustrating mechanics in favor of "an open-world space shooter with classic RPG elements and persistent player progression." Rockfish brought ...

During today's Gamescom Opening Night Live stream, Private Division unveiled a trailer for a sequel to the popular, slightly goofy, space simulation title Kerbal Space Program, which wowed audiences in 2015. Beginning with a dramatic, almo...

No Man's Sky is turning into one big party. Grab your spacesuit, your VR helmet, and a sixer of moon juice. In what Hello Games is calling its biggest update yet, No Man's Sky is adding functionality and features that will make i...

We've got some Steam copies up for grabs in today's contest for Between the Stars! Space is super big. And super vast. And super scary. It's kind of like the ocean (huge, expansive, terrifying), but like, different. It's so weird! I think I...

I didn't even last ten minutes into my first session with Outer Wilds, the intriguing open-world adventure game from Annapurna Interactive and Mobius Digital. A freshly minted astronaut from the tiny world of Timber Hearth, I took a bit too...

At launch, No Man's Sky was a very lonely game. This functionally-infinite universe was so big that no one ever saw another player. Everyone was just an insignificant speck trying to barter with stubborn aliens. As Hello Games fixed N...

You say potato, I say we've got a contest for Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?! for Switch and PS4! If you woke up on this fine morning yearning to win a spaceship management sim featuring turn-based battles and potatoes, then you're in luck ...

The X series has a storied history of being the top in the space trading and combat simulation genre. It has also been one of the harder series to get into with previous iterations offering little to no introduction. With X4: Foundations, i...

It’s hard to talk about Star Control: Origins without talking about Star Control 2. SC2 is a game extremely near and dear to me. I originally played it on the Panasonic 3DO, that system nobody owned that cost an arm and a leg, where i...

Space exploratory sim No Man's Sky recently celebrated the launch of its major update NEXT, which has brought interstellar travellers back into the fold and, naturally, big sales back into the charts.One NMS fan, however, went one step furt...

I stopped playing No Man's Sky due to boredom, which is never how I want to end a video game. I felt engaged in the early hours just scouting out new planets, but eventually, I ran out of meaningful things to do. Then I kept pushing anyway....

I'm sure we've all seen some insane DLC prices over the years, from overly expensive season passes, to an endless stream of various skins and other minor accessories adding up to hundreds of dollars. But, for you big spenders out there who ...

The box art leak earlier this week was completely correct. No Man's Sky is getting synchronous multiplayer in its next update. No Man's Sky figurehead Sean Murray appeared on today's episode of Inside Xbox to reveal that the Xbox versi...

No Man's Sky has been working toward proper multiplayer for a long time. It launched in 2016 with players theoretically able to encounter each other in a functionally-infinite world (except not really). Last August, it implemented supp...

Elite Dangerous picks back up this year with a third season, Beyond, and PC/Mac players will soon be able to test out its first chunk of content. Frontier Developments is holding an open beta on January 25 for Beyond - Chapter One before it...

With today's PC and PS4 update, Ubisoft's social space sim Star Trek: Bridge Crew no longer requires players to use a virtual-reality headset. If you've been trying to talk your friends into playing (or vice versa), that conversation should...

I have a heavy bias toward Star Control. It is one of the first PC games I ever fell in love with alongside MYST, though my original introduction to the series took place on the Sega Genesis. The original Star Control is likely not worth go...

The other day I spent a couple of hours at work reading about sailboats. Like a ten-year-old with a new fascination after discovering Treasure Island or some other seafaring fantasy, I was obsessing over famous ships from the past, and the ...

Star Control II is one of the best games ever made. Getting that out of the way, I was pretty happy when Stardock announced last year that they would be reviving the series. The original creators Paul Reiche and Fred Ford will not be d...

Sci-fi 4X game Endless Space 2 launched its "Target Locked" update today, adding much-anticipated fighters and bombers to the fray. These smaller ships will give you an edge over bigger cruisers, and they'll look good doing it since th...

No Man's Sky is mostly a distant memory for me at this point, but with an ARG brewing and people getting jazzed about uncovering its secrets, the sci-fi exploration game has been back on my mind. We've known about a possible August launch f...

Elite Dangerous was released June 27, 2017 on the PlayStation 4 after enjoying a long run on the PC and Xbox One. Frontier has been working hard to keep providing updated contact for the massive, procedurally generated space trucking s...