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The Secret War Against Afghanistan's Space Invaders
Adam Richardson has added pixelated alien invaders to actual war photos from Iraq and Afghanistan. And when the Space Invaders descend on a war zone, they find that they have more to contend with more than laser cannons. More »Meet The New HD Space Invaders
Wondering what Space Invaders would look like in the real world? This Threadless t-shirt by Jean Salamin reveals all. We're surprised that they're spaceships and not just weirdly shaped aliens, but we kind of like it. They're Real [Threadless] More »Life Magazine Remembers the Space Invaders
Ryan Snieder blends a classic photo spread with a classic video game to commemorate those more innocent days when young men would grab their dog and their shotgun and bring home a Space Invader for supper. [Behance Network via GeekTyrant] More »Royksopp Video Chronicles Doomed Girl/Robot Romance
Fresh on the heels of their carnivalesque Space Invaders video, Norwegian electronica duo Röyksopp have created an epic romantic saga for our time in "The Girl and the Robot," their new single featuring Swedish diva Robyn. More »You Are Being Watched By Alien Phalanx Monsters
A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It's almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real "Space Invaders," intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space Invaders graffiti, using tiles to simulate 8-bit video game pixels, has been a constant in London since 1999, but it seems to have started featuring the CCTV warning only recently. Click through for a couple more images. More »You Can Only Delay, Never Stop, The Space Invaders