It’s been said that even in the earliest storyboards for Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, there was a distinct intent to move away from the space opera of Star Wars and the utopian ideals of sci ...

Audio plays a hugely important role in how we experience games, immersing players further into the gameplay. One misplaced sound could be the difference between immersion and comedy. As part of our ...

The alien is not the only threat on board the station. That one sentence, flashing up as a loading screen hint, perfectly sums up the philosophy of Alien: Isolation. You might have one of sci-fi’s ...

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.

The best graphics of the next gen and the most terrifying survival horror gameplay of recent years, but will you be loving the alien? A few months ago a reader asked whether we’d recommend ...

Few video games capture the essence of their inspiration quite like Alien: Isolation. Creative Assembly’s 2014 survival horror looks as if it were made by the set designers of Ridley Scott’s movie ...

However, this approach inadvertently led me into playing Alien: Isolation exactly the way it’s meant to be played. Playing as Amanda Ripley, you’re tasked with searching for a flight log of the ...

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