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

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.

With Alien: Isolation, Creative Assembly have a struggle to prove the game’s credentials. Last year’s misstep damaged the franchise and those involved, but with a different studio behind the wheel, an ...

Bad news everyone, Alien: Blackout is most certainly real but it’s not the console sequel to Alien: Isolation that everyone wanted, it’s a game for your phone ...

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 ...

I have to agree with the majority of people on the Inbox that the Assassin’s Creed Unity sexism row has been blown out of all proportion, or at least is a very poor example of what is a genuine ...

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 ...

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