Corporal Hicks

This year Predator celebrates its 30th anniversary and to commemorate this many cinemas around the world have been screening special showings of Predator. One such showing, hosted by the Arkansas Cinema Society, was followed by a Q&A session with Predator's writer Jim Thomas and producer Beau Marks. While the Q&A mostly covers behind-the-scenes information we've heard before, Jim Thomas ... [Read More]

We have just uploaded the 57th episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! We took a step outside the realms of movies and comics and even direct Alien or Predator products and spoke to John Ivan, aka "BladeGhost", a modder who has created some fantastic Alien, Predator, Prometheus and other science-fiction themed mods for Doom ... [Read More]

If you're having flashbacks to the earlier years of the 2010s, you can be forgiven. Sir Ridley Scott had spoken numerous times over recent years about how he thought the Alien was no longer effective, so much so that it came as quite a surprise when Prometheus 2 was announced as Alien: Paradise Lost (later Alien: Covenant)! It seems that despite ... [Read More]

In a new interview on Shadow Nation with Shaun Burris and Nathan Schoonover, The Predator's Thomas Jane spoke a little about his time working on The Predator. The juiciest piece of information comes in the form of some backstory about his character and some early setup for the film. Beware spoilers: "We play these veterans from like Afghanistan, Iraq war ... [Read More]

Alien vs. Predator Galaxy and Bryan Thomas Schmidt, the editor of and author in Predator: If It Bleeds, are teaming up together to give 18 Predator fans a chance to win signed bookplates of Predator: If It Bleeds! We have 9 bookplates for our members in America and another 9 copies for the rest of the world. The bookplates will be ... [Read More]

For the longest time, the only piece of in-universe reference material that existed for the Alien franchise was Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual. The Tech Manual (often abbreviated as CMTM) detailed the inner workings of the Colonial Marines, their technology and some details about the Aliens. I’ve never been able to read it cover-to-cover (though Darkness has previously reviewed it). It’s ... [Read More]

Back in July of 2004, a month a head of the release of the actual film, HarperCollins published the novelization of Paul W.S Anderson’s Alien vs. Predator written by Marc Cerasini. It would be the last novelization of an Alien film until Alan Dean Foster returned for Alien: Covenant earlier this year. Alien vs. Predator Galaxy recently had the chance to ... [Read More]

Over the last few years Upper Deck has been knocking it out the park with some really amazing Alien and Predator themed card games. Their first foray into the world of Alien and Predator card gaming was the awesome Legendary Encounters – An Alien Deck Building Game. Upper Deck also released an expansion for the Alien set and released a ... [Read More]

So far we've only seen a very minimalistic teaser-style poster for The Predator back in May during the Los Angles Licensing Expo. Another licensing expo, Brand Licensing Europe, is currently taking place in London and on display is a brand new piece of poster art for The Predator! Fortunately for us all, dirtees was on hand to upload ... [Read More]

When we first learnt that Alan Dean Foster was going to be writing a prequel novel for Alien: Covenant, I think it would be easy to forgive that we were all excited for and expecting what could only be a novel exploring the period in between Prometheus and Alien: Covenant where we finally found out what happened to Shaw, David ... [Read More]

We have just uploaded the 56th episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! The latest episode of our podcast sees RidgeTop and myself chat to Bryan Thomas Schmidt, the editor of the upcoming anthology Predator: If It Bleeds. We talk about If It Bleeds, Bryan's love for Predator 2, crossovers, what reboots mean to fans ... [Read More]

Today sees the release of Titan Book's new novel, Alien: Covenant - Origins, from Alan Dean Foster. They've also got the anthology Predator: If It Bleeds due out next month and Alien: The Cold Forge next April. If you thought Titan was done with Alien after that, we're pleased to dispel you of that notion. Alien vs. Predator Galaxy ... [Read More]

Carlton Books is set to bring out the Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual. Alien: Augmented Reality Survival Manual will be the latest in a series of Augmented Reality books published by Carlton. Their previous titles include iExplore - Predators, iDinosaur, iSolar System and Jurassic World - Where Dinosaurs Come to Life. The Alien: ... [Read More]