In the 35 years since Ridley Scott's Alien first terrified audiences around the world, the creature created in the twisted mind of artist HR Giger has slowly been diminished. Video games in particular ...

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 ($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 ...

In Space Invaders, no one can hear you scream. Movie classic Alien is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year with a new video game. And Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film ...

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 ...

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, ...

The follow-up to Alien Isolation might only be a mobile app, but it’s an impressively tense and scary one… By now we should know better than to say that any game franchise has completely exhausted its ...

A metallic “clank” echoes above sending my nerves into hysterical overdrive. I freeze, too scared to gently push the analogue stick of my controller forward slightly just in case it makes a noise.

Alien Isolation is the latest game from Sega based on the Alien films. Unexpectedly it’s actually really rather good, and works hard to be more like the films and less like other games. It restores ...

Next time you stream a game, keep one thing in mind; the developer might be keeping an eye on your gameplay. "I love watching them play. It's just great. It's like free praise," says Catherine Woolley ...

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 ...

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 ...