What sets SOS apart from other multiplayer survival games is its built-in social element: Players can talk to one another freely through a proximity-based chat (a microphone is required to play ...

Yesterday, James and I discussed our time with SOS, a 16-player survival game which encourages loose alliances and betrayals, and where half the goal is to entertain viewers.

SOS is a reality show-inspired survival game where 16 contestants have 30 minutes to drop on an island, find an artifact, and get out. Developers Outpost Games are counting on leveraging that 90s ...

In hopes that someone gets my message—that more than 10 million children in the U.S. experience childhood trauma annually and we should not leave them feeling like castaways—I’m sending out ...

Outpost Games' upcoming battle royale game SOS takes this thinking to heart, but adds in some rather unorthodox twists that asks players--or "performers," as the developers say--to go out of their ...

SOS Hands-On: A Battle Royale Game that Makes Your Mic a Vital Tool, and Why that May Be a Mistake Everyone is a performer, and it can get very annoying.

Search and rescue chiefs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) can't praise the iPhone's Emergency SOS via Satellite enough.

I had no idea that the reality show Survivor was still on the air, but it’s entering its 36th season so people must still like it — and Outpost Games is betting that human drama alongside some ...

You're on an island, one of 16 participants in a deadly game show, given just 30 minutes to find a relic and get back to the chopper alive. This is the concept for forthcoming online survival game ...

Tom and James discuss SOS, an upcoming battle royale FPS that makes the mic a vital tool, and why that could be a mistake.