Alternate history is a genre of fiction in which a historical event or era either happened differently or did not happen at all, significantly changing how Earth's timeline plays out. This differs ...

Games like The Order: 1886 & BioShock Infinite explore fun, unique alternate history scenarios. Titles such as Atomfall & Metro Exodus add immersive storytelling and engaging gameplay to historical ...

There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history over the years. Often it's a re-imagining of major events like wars, but ...

For four seasons, Apple TV+'s For All Mankind has presented an alternate history of the space race, starting in a world where Russia, not America, put the first person on the moon. That single ...

Atomfall, the action RPG survival game that takes place after a nuclear disaster, released later this month. While it's far ...

Alternate history writing looks at "what if" scenarios; What if the Soviet Union won the Cold War? What if the Roman Empire never fell? It's not just interesting escapism; it also allows readers to ...

Join creative director Joel Bylos at Funcom for a deep dive into the alternate history of Dune: Awakening, an upcoming open-world survival MMO set on Arrakis. In the alternate history of Dune: ...

One of my first memories is watching the first lunar landing, so it's not surprising I've been glued to Apple TV's For All Mankind, with its alternate history of a space race that didn't end with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his respects at the coffin of former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on Sept. 1. (TV pool/AP) Alternate history is enjoying a modest revival. The ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook All of this alternate history madness culminated in Transformers: The Last Knight, which wasn’t ...