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 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 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 ...

Creative Assembly set out to capture the true horror of Ridley Scott's Alien movie. The developer's E3 demo suggests it has succeeded It is so close you can hear its breath. You are huddled under a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The writer behind Alien: Isolation has given an explanation of why the game is so long, as a sequel to a different Alien game emerges. Alien: Isolation is one of the best examples of how to ...

The writer behind Alien: Isolation has given an explanation of why the game is so long, as a sequel to a different Alien game emerges. Alien: Isolation is one of the best examples of how to ...

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 ...