Alien: Isolation News

Alien Isolation's player count suddenly spikes on Steam

I remember watching Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg play Alien: Isolation as a kid. I wasn't allowed to play it because the movies terrified my mom and would therefore horrify me, so watching Pewds was as close as I got. It was like a delayed chorus; he'd scream, I'd scream, he'd scream, I'd close YouTube. Whether I knew it back then or not, Isolation had implanted a seed in me; one that would grow and entice me back to the eerie, abandoned halls of the Sevastopol again and again. It's been years since I played Isolation, but with the release of Alien: Romulus and a pretty hefty discount, I might just have to terrify myself all over again.

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Alien: Isolation under the microscope: an excerpt from new companion book Perfect Organism

In 2014, PC Gamer awarded horror adventure Alien: Isolation Game of the Year, praising its reactive AI and exhaustively faithful environmental design. At the time, staff writer Andy Kelly called it "probably the bravest, most subversive 'AAA' game of the year."..
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One of the greatest horror games ever made is less than $10 right now

A decade ago, in 2014, Creative Assembly put out one of the best horror games ever made. Though the studio is known largely for its work on strategy games like the historical Total War: Pharaoh and Total War: Three Kingdoms alongside the fantasy themed Total War: Warhammer 3, its first stab at a first person horror game, Alien: Isolation, ended up as a landmark for the genre. Now, anyone who's eager to have their nerves shredded in a game of cat and mouse with a bloodthirsty xenomorph is in luck as Alien: Isolation has just received a steep discount on Steam.

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Teaser for the next Alien movie features a youthful cast and more facehuggers than you can shake an M41A Pulse Rifle at

Look, I won't go so far to say I'm a fan of the last couple of Alien movies—who could forgive the undodgeable space wheel or Michael Fassbender's "I'll do the fingering" line—but I am enough of an apologist to be excited about the next one. All of which is to say, hey, here's the first teaser trailer for Alien: Romulus, the next one, which arrives in theatres on August 16...
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Alien Isolation mod tools deliver Ridley Scott's original vision of a Xenomorph stalking Dust 2

n extremely enterprising Alien: Isolation mod project, OpenCAGE, has released its latest set of tools for the game: And demonstrated just what a big deal this is by unimportant Counter-Strike's Dust 2 map into Alien: Isolation and releasing the relentless Xenomorph and some Working Joes to hunt the player down (thanks, RPS). Obviously one would hope to never meet an Alien anywhere, but a big open space where your only protection is wooden crates certainly doesn't seem ideal (though weirdly enough is basically a reduction of the unmade Alien 3)...
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