postapocalyptic

Developer Drop Bear Bytes has announced the release date for Broken Roads, a post-apocalyptic RPG set in the Australian outback. Next month, on April 10, 2024, Broken Roads will make its debut for PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. Ever since it was first revealed, Broken Roads has intrigued me because it seeks to blend the classic isometric Fallout game style with a morality system bearing a close resemblance to Disco Elysium‘s personality mechanic. There’s something about this style of RPG that pulls me in and won’t…

Frostpunk's sequel finally has a release data, giving fans of the post-apocalyptic city-building survival game something to look forward to in the coming months. 11 Bit Studios has announced at the Xbox Partners Showcase that Frostpunk 2 will be available for Windows PCs starting on July 25. PC Game Pass subscribers will also be able to play it from day one. It's a full-fledged sequel to the original game, set 30 years after its events, where oil has taken over steam as society's main energy source.Players take on the…

Are you ready for a brand new Dave Bautista film? Because we sure are – and this is what we know about Afterburn. Dave Bautista is a name I'm sure many movie lovers of the past few years have heard. The actor got his start in the entertainment industry when he was one of the stars of the WWE for many years before he transitioned into acting. While Bautista appeared in many roles for a few years, it wasn't until Guardians of the Galaxy that he became a household name for non-wrestling fans, and we started to see just how…

Carbs did not survive the apocalypse.Image: Roadside AttractionsBill Skarsgård came to mainstream attention playing Pennywise in the It movies, and he’ll soon be seen as The Crow’s undead hero as well as Nosferatu’s vampire. But he’s clearly not casting aside roles that don’t involve prosthetics and make-up, as this beefy first look at Boy Kills World reveals.Directed by first-time feature helmer Moritz Mohr and with Sam Raimi among its producers, Boy Kills World looks to have some John Wick in its DNA; it’s the story of…

An altercation between shoppers turned into a wild physical fight at a self-checkout area of an unknown Walmart store in the United States. Video footage of the brawl has gone viral, depicting a scene that looks like it was taken from a WWE fight event.The clip, which started to circulate this week, shows a couple of shoppers arguing about something before everyone around them decides to join the fight and start throwing fists at each other. In a matter of seconds, all hell breaks loose, with people punching other…

Since the latter half of 2022, Barcelona-based upcycler and art studio Bel&Bel has been building a hybrid electric replica of an iconic motorcycle featured in a dystopian manga classic. Now a limited fully electric model is in the works, and it's being made available to fans.Katsuhiro Otomo's 1980s cyberpunk manga epic Akira, which also made it to the big screen as an anime action flick, is set in a nightmarish future Tokyo built on the nuked site of Japan's capital – rocking a somewhat similar vibe to Blade Runner's…

Bandai Namco has announced that Sand Land, based on the manga by Akira Toriyama, is set to release on Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, and PC on April 26. Alongside the release date announcement, Bandai Namco has released a new trailer showcasing the game’s environments and various vehicles. It looks fantastic to me. I know next to nothing about the manga, but I’ve been in love with post-apocalyptic vehicular combat since basically forever. However, it was pushed into overdrive after I discovered the Metal Max series.…

C Pam Zhang’s acclaimed debut, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was about the wild west during the gold rush. Her second novel explores another world ravaged by greed. Set in the near future, Land of Milk and Honey imagines the planet’s devastation after an environmental catastrophe has shrouded the world in smog: “Biodiversity fell… Scientists bickered over the smog’s composition and politicians over whether pollution or lax carbon taxes or China or nuclear testing or America or Russia were to blame, and all the while…

Peacock launched a live-action Twisted Metal trailer today that provides a much clearer glimpse of the upcoming series than its teaser from earlier this year. Set to the beat of DMX’s “Party Up (Up In Here),” the campy clip has high-speed chases, guns and carjackings along with ample wisecracks and one maniacal clown — everything you’d expect from a live-action adaptation of the over-the-top franchise. The two-minute trailer begins with star Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and The Winter Soldier) setting the tone as…

Image: Comixology OriginalsThe creative team of comics writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) are back with Duck and Cover, billed as “a post-apocalyptic adventure series with a historical twist.” io9 has a first look today!Featuring colors by Marcelo Maiolo and letters by Bernardo Brice, Duck and Cover #1 gets a digital release July 11 courtesy of Amazon’s Comixology Originals, in conjunction with Best Jackett Press and Stout Club Entertainment.“Duck and Cover is a character driven…