Creative Assembly set out to capture the true horror of Ridley Scott's Alien movie. The developer's E3 demo suggests it has succeeded It is so close you can hear its breath. You are huddled under a ...

Fear and tension are difficult reactions to provoke in fiction. In real life, sure, you just need a sharp thing to point at someone, but in entertainment creating sustained fear requires those making ...

The survival horror game “Alien Isolation” will launch this fall for the Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PC, and we were lucky enough to speak with the title’s lead artist during ...

The new Alien video game includes bonus missions based around the original cast, with Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley – to emotional effect They say don't meet your heroes – and usually they ...

Alien: Isolation has impressed every time we've seen it since its reveal, but this time it's different. This isn't some staged demo, or bustling press event. This is me, one my own, with a build of ...

It's been a long time since I played a horror game where I needed someone else present in the room just to give me a little bit of reassurance. I couldn't play Silent Hill 2 on my own, couldn't play ...

Alien Isolation 2 made headlines when the sequel was first announced in October 2024. The announcement was part of the 10th anniversary celebration of the first Alien Isolation game, which was ...

Alien: Isolation ($49.99) is one of the best games of the year, and a far cry from 2013's disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines. Instead of using James Cameron's Aliens as its foundation, as so many ...

Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley's daughter, ...

The musical duo of Joe Henson and Alexis Smith is becoming more and more prolific in the world of video games. The pair have created the score for titles ranging from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – ...

The Tuesday letters page has some advice to get Ubisoft out of its current financial trouble, as a reader recommends Tactical Breach Wizards. So, Inbox magic strikes again? Only days after a reader ...

One of the reasons Ridley Scott’s Alien was so terrifying is the reluctance to, in Scott’s words, “show you too much of the monster”. That slow burn, the fear of the unknown, glimpses of something ...