Symbols that can’t be understood have always captivated human imagination, especially when they tell a story. Some games lean into this captivation by asking players to decipher alien imagination, ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

When asked how much of the alien language used by the franchise's central hunter species he is able to speak, "Predator: Badlands" director Dan Trachtenberg quickly answers, "Zero." "My mouth will not ...

The DC Universe's first foray into deep space won't be in HBO's Lanterns (streaming in August); it will be in Supergirl, and it seems that being a forerunner comes with an unexpected linguistic ...

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...