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A new Alien novel called Alien: Inferno’s Fall from Titan Books is on its way next year. The news comes from a listing on Amazon with a release date of July 26, 2022. The novel is written by Philippa Ballantine with Clara Carija co-writing the story. Clara Carija might be quite familiar in the community as she previously ... [Read More]

The upcoming Alien FX Series will be 8-10 hours long according to Ridley Scott. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme today, Ridley Scott discussed his new film House of Gucci. He revealed a Blade Runner TV series pilot has been written and the new Alien show pilot is currently being written. For both Blade Runner and Alien, an ... [Read More]

Aliens: Fireteam Elite has officially been released! Seven years after the last Alien title, Alien Isolation, the new Alien game from Cold Iron Studios drops you and your team of Colonial Marines onto LV-895 where you’ll battle hoards of Aliens. Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a third-person co-operative online multiplayer game that has been released for PC, PS4, PS5, X-Box One, ... [Read More]

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is almost upon us with its release due tomorrow. Various outlets have started publishing their reviews and it’s getting a mixed to positive reception. The PC version is currently sitting on a score of 70 on Metacritic out of 21 reviews. For reference, the last Alien title was 2014’s Alien Isolation which scored 81 ... [Read More]

Neill Blomkamp has done a fairly frank interview with The Guardian while promoting his latest film, Demonic. Blomkamp’s last film was 2015’s Chappie which performed okay at the box office but received generally negative reviews. The director was asked about his cancelled Alien sequel and suggests that Ridley Scott saw Chappie and realised that his Alien film ... [Read More]

The crew over at the Perfect Organism Podcast have published their latest podcast episode and have done an interesting interview with Senior Creative Director at NECA, Randy Falk. This covers everything about the figures, how the ideas are conceived, securing likeness rights with the actors and to the figures getting made. It’s slanted towards Alien figures and what’s ... [Read More]

25 Minutes of gameplay footage from Aliens: Fireteam has now been released by IGN. IGN’s editor Ryan McCaffrey is joined by Cold Iron Studios’ CEO Craig Zinkievich and their Chief Creative Officer Matt Highison as the three of them play through one of the missions from the game. Craig is playing as the Demolisher class while Matt ... [Read More]

Cold Iron Studios’ new Alien game has finally been unveiled! Aliens: Fireteam is a cooperative third-person survivor shooter set in the year 2202, 23 years after the events of the Alien trilogy. Players will assume the role of a a Colonial Marine stationed aboard the USS Endeavor. You’ll play through four campaigns compromising of three missions. You’ll encounter 20 different enemy variations, ... [Read More]

It appears the remaining three Alien films may be coming to 4K Blu-Ray after all. There were rumours last year that Disney was going to stop releasing 4K Blu-Rays for most films although they later insisted they’re still committed to the format. A new report on TheDigitalFix says that Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection are ... [Read More]

Happy new year to everybody and hopefully this one will be better than the last one. A new design/theme is now out for AvPGalaxy – Version 8. Given that Aliens is going to be celebrating its 35th Anniversary this year, I’ve based it around Hadley’s Hope. I’ve made the layout a little wider, there’s a new mobile layout and the ... [Read More]

NECA have announced the fourth set of figures in the Alien 40th Anniversary line. Ripley, based on the likeness of Sigourney Weaver, returns in her compression suit which was previously released in Aliens Series 4. Lambert in her compression suit is the next figure, based on Veronica Cartwright. Lambert was previously released in Aliens Series 11. Ripley and ... [Read More]

Noclip, a crowdsourced company known for making game documentaries, have just released their latest one and it’s dedicated to the development of Alien Isolation. The team at Noclip went to Creative Assembly’s studio and interviewed Console Creative Director Alistair Hope, Console Technical Director Clive Gratton and Chief Studio Officer Tim Heaton. In the 20-minute documentary, Creative Assembly talk about their original ... [Read More]

We may never get Aliens on 4K. It now seems increasingly unlikely that we will ever see Aliens, Alien 3 or Alien Resurrection on 4K Blu-Ray. A new report coming out this week says that Disney has halted production of future physical 4K Ultra HD Blu-Rays of films in its back catalogue including films from Disney and the recently acquired 20th ... [Read More]