One thing I noticed playing Alien Isolation was its unpredictability. Multiple replays showed the alien and other characters never did the same thing twice, which is entirely the point, explains creative lead Alistair Hope. » 7/18/14 9:00am 7/18/14 9:00am

Isn't it great there'll be a way to play Alien Isolation using the film's original cast? Wasn't it stupid that this mode was announced as a preorder bonus? Well, "good" news: the content is going to be available to everyone, not just those preordering the game. » 7/10/14 7:05pm 7/10/14 7:05pm

It's the middle of summer movie season. These days, that means tons of movies, designed to bring in the broadest audience to justify their $100 million-plus budget. And sometimes, you can tell these films, deep down, want to be "B" movies. Here are 10 huge-budget movies that would have been more fun with less money. » 7/09/14 3:29pm 7/09/14 3:29pm

Ellen Ripley and crew will join the upcoming sci-fi horror game Alien: Isolation when it comes out this fall... if you pre-order. » 7/09/14 9:09am 7/09/14 9:09am

The best recurring delight in my RSS reader over the last month has been Angus MacLane's ongoing Lego couch series. So far, it includes offbeat tributes to Alien, Transformers, Robocop, and more: » 6/21/14 12:04pm 6/21/14 12:04pm

Funny Aliens: Colonial Marines review at Steam: » 6/20/14 3:15am 6/20/14 3:15am

The best kind of horror game doesn't need any guns. It doesn't need to scare you with difficult enemy encounters and shock value. Sometimes, silence is scarier than all of that. » 6/16/14 10:00am 6/16/14 10:00am

Batman: Arkham Origins by Auto Reply is one of this week's selection of 16 gaming wallpapers, including Child of Light, Dark Souls, and Skyrim featuring the Crysis Nanosuit Mod. » 5/03/14 12:00pm 5/03/14 12:00pm

Shooters, despite some evidence to the contrary, are actually rare. » 4/29/14 10:00am 4/29/14 10:00am

There's a reason that the first word in the next game based on 20th Century Fox's sci-fi horror franchise is singular. Alien: Isolation will be taking its cues from Ridley Scott's slower, more atmospheric 1979 original. That means no space marines and no P5000 power loader. Just you and one big, scary Xenomorph. Which… » 4/24/14 11:00am 4/24/14 11:00am

Have Sega and Creative Assembly finally got a hold on this deep space survival horror thing, or will no one hear you scream because you aren't screaming? We'll find out on October 7, when Alien: Isolation hits PlayStations, Xboxen and PC. » 3/29/14 12:50pm 3/29/14 12:50pm

Here's a new developer diary for Alien: Isolation, which comes out later this year for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. » 3/13/14 12:10pm 3/13/14 12:10pm

Alien: Isolation officially made itself known yesterday. If you caught a dated-looking vibe in the game's visuals, that's deliberate; Creative Assembly wanted to render the Alien universe as looked in the original 1979 film. You can get a better view of it in this video—but you won't see any of this on the Wii U. » 1/08/14 1:05pm 1/08/14 1:05pm

An Xbox Marketplace listing for Alien: Isolation lines up with our reports from back in October of the game in development by Creative Assembly, starring Ellen Ripley's daughter. » 1/06/14 10:00pm 1/06/14 10:00pm

This fall, a Kotaku source revealed that the next Aliens game was Alien: Isolation. And last night, screenshots rumored to be of the game appeared online. » 12/13/13 7:20am 12/13/13 7:20am

Dark Horse is remaking the universe. Aliens, Predators, and Engineers will come together in 2014 when the Aliens, Predators, and Alien Vs. Predator comics get completely rebooted, along with the first Prometheus comic series, and joined together in a single continuity next year. We spoke with all four writers — Chris… » 10/10/13 3:59pm 10/10/13 3:59pm

That's a bold claim, given how many horrifying Alien toys were marketed to little kids. But this Kenner 18" figure is both close to H.R. Giger's original vision and blatantly horrific, with the skull-face and everything. Hard to believe this was marketed to little kids. » 9/12/13 6:40am 9/12/13 6:40am