Here's a new developer diary for Alien: Isolation, which comes out later this year for PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
Six Things You Should Know About Alien: Isolation
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.
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.
Rumored Alien: Isolation Screens Leak Online
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.
Source: The Next Aliens Game Stars Ellen Ripley's Daughter
The next video game in the world of Aliens will star the daughter of superstar space officer Ellen Ripley, according to a Kotaku source.
How the new Alien, Predator and Prometheus comics will share a universe
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…
This glow-in-the-dark Xenomorph figure might be the scariest Alien toy
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.
Make Any Bad-Ass Figure Instantly Cute
Predator doesn't look so scary when decked out in a frilly skirt, huh?
10 Influential Movies (Where Everybody Copied the Wrong Thing)
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that changes everything. A film that rewrites the rules and influences a generation of film-makers. But all too often, the people who imitate these ground-breaking movies miss the point. Here are 10 science fiction and fantasy movies from which everybody copied the wrong…
Aww, When Villains Are This Cute, They Don't Even Seem Evil
All you need to do to make someone seem less fierce is to catch them prancing around without a care in the world, like in this art by Mr. Florey.
This Creepy-Cool Metroid Poster Gives a Shout-out to Alien
Lovers of Nintendo’s sci-fi action franchise know that Metroid’s female protagonist and a cosmic ecosystem of creatures that nest all over the galaxy were inspired by Ridley Scott’s classic space horror film Alien . A new poster by artist Marinko Milosevski (who we've featured before) honors that thematic connection…
The Best Looking Beat 'em Up Games From The 16-Bit Era
The beat 'em up genre flourished in the nineties, with Capcom and Konami leading the way on the SNES and on the SEGA Genesis, as well as with a huge amount of great arcade games that never got a home console port.
The Aliens: Colonial Marines Demo Looked Great. The Actual Game, Not…
By almost all accounts, Aliens: Colonial Marines isn't a good game. Patricia certainly didn't care for it, saying that "it was literally a pain just to get through."
Aliens: Colonial Marines stinks. Is it that hard to make a decent Aliens game? This 2012 essay explores the question.
The Alien from Aliens Was Originally Chinese, Alleges Flea Market Art…
Swiss surrealist artist
H. R. Giger is credited with designing the Alien (née ) from the iconic movies and games.
These New Aliens: Colonial Marines Screenshots Will Make You Drool
Hot off the e-presses, here's four new screenshots from Aliens: Colonial Marines for your viewing pleasure. In the images, we get a glimpse of two aliens, a look at iron sights in action, and a peek at what the multiplayer lobby looks like.
The Authorized Story of the Next Aliens Video Game Will Change the Way …
The much-hyped Ridley Scott movie Prometheus isn't the only big Aliens-related project that might change the way we think of one of sci-fi's best series.
"One of the things we're really proud about is that there were some things that fans like us always believed were inconsistencies between and…What your favorite Alien movie says about you
With Ridley Scott's suspected Alien prequel, Prometheus, in production, it's time to look back and ask: What does your favorite Alien movie say about you? The answers may surprise you!
Aliens: Colonial Marines Is a Living Tableau of Death, Bloody and Alien
Aliens: Colonial Marines is everything I'd want in an Aliens game starring tragically overconfident space Marines. It is spectacular with sprays of gunfire, acidic green blood, and horrific death.
Clearing Up—Sort Of—Where Colonial Marines Fits in Aliens Canon
When Aliens: Colonial Marines' official game announcement billed it as a "true sequel to James Camerson's classic Aliens," diehard fans of the film trilogy took that to mean the game would undo the events of the controversial Alien 3, harshly criticized by Aliens director James Cameron and some of its principal cast. Not …