One night in the early ’90s I was visiting my nan and was sleeping in my aunt’s room as she was away. I took the opportunity to stay up and watch late night TV, something I wasn’t allowed to do at ...

From the pixelated horrors of Alien on the Atari 2600 to the claustrophobic dread of Alien: Isolation, the iconic Alien franchise has been terrifying gamers witless since the early eighties. Now, ...

I am absolutely terrified of horror games. To be clear, I don’t mind horror and have actually acquiesced to the genre quite ...

Cards on the table time: Alien is my favourite film, bar none. To me Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece is the film my parents warned me was the most terrifying thing they’d ever seen; it’s ...

In Alien Isolation, the first-person survival horror game from Creative Assembly, you end up carrying a revolver - at one point you can even pick up a flamethrower - and as you're exploring the giant, ...

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 ...

Alien: Isolation has secured six nominations for the British Academy Games Awards, meaning it leads the way in the battle to be cream of the crop in the gaming industry. The title has been nominated ...

It's a good time to be an Alien fan right about now. Alien: Romulus has just been in cinemas, Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth TV series is well on its way (and even has a teaser already!), and one of the ...

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 ...