British video game developer The Creative Assembly uses sound effects and music to keep players in a permanently tense state when exploring its video game Alien: Isolation. The title is a spin-off ...

There's something lurking in the corner of the room; something big, ugly and grotesque. It's stalking the shadows, sizing up its prey, and everybody's in fear of the havoc it's wreaked - yet no-one's ...

In horror, sound design in an intrinsic component in generating the overall fear factor. If you've ever found yourself covering your ears or preemptively lowering the volume whilst watching a scary ...

When the developer Creative Assembly promised a return to the brooding horror of 1979’s Alien for this latest video game tie-in, it left fans eager to see how such a tone would translate to a modern, ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But in the best space horror movies of all time, there's plenty of audible screaming ...

"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...

A new single-player action horror game based on Aliens has been announced, and it’s going to be a VR game as well. It’s hard to say what would’ve happened if Alien Isolation had been a major hit. It ...