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New pre-orders are now live for AVP, AVPR, and Alien: Resurrection 1:18 scale figures by Hiya Toys. While they still have a number of other releases set for the remainder of this year and leading into next, we now have more additions to their offerings for later in 2022.  Featured are the Predalien, and two ... [Read More]

Pre-orders are up for the Mezco Toyz One:12 Collective series Alien figure, based on the ‘Big Chap’ design from the original film.  The 7 Inch deluxe figure includes an array of accessories such as two Facehuggers in unique poses, a Chestburster, three interchangeable inner mouths, open and closed eggs, a stand, six interchangeable hands and an interchangeable chest plate. We’ve been ... [Read More]

Filming has wrapped on the production of Predator 5 / ‘Skulls’! Cinematographer Jeff Cutter shared to his Instagram a clapboard with the film’s working title, displaying the last date of filming and what was presumably the last scene to be shot. “And that’s a wrap on Skulls! Can’t thank @dannytrs enough for inviting me along on this epic ... [Read More]

The upcoming fifth Predator film with the current working title of ‘Skulls’ is nearing the end of Production in Calgary, Canada. It’s literally scheduled to wrap today but it’s not currently known if it will be extended yet again. The director of the film, Dan Trachtenberg has been occasionally sharing tidbits from the set to Instagram, recently showing off himself wearing ... [Read More]

Before we endured our long wait for the ultimately disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines by Gearbox Software, there was another game by the same name of Aliens: Colonial Marines planned for the PlayStation 2. This one was being developed by Check Six Games, a short lived studio that developed Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly which released in 2002. ... [Read More]

The August update for Predator: Hunting Grounds is here! The new content was announced this morning in a PlayStation blog post, detailing a long-suspected Predator DLC character with included new early access weapon skin, fireteam bots, and Isabelle lore tapes. Featured as the new Paid DLC Predator class is ‘Cleopatra,’ a female Predator hinted at in multiple lore ... [Read More]

1:18 scale figure company Hiya Toys isn’t slowing down and continues to announce new pre-orders for upcoming waves of Alien, Predator, and AVP figures. They still have a number releases set for this year, and their ‘Exquisite Mini’ 2022 slate has been expanding. When we last checked in during spring, they had just announced Predator ... [Read More]

We have an additional clip of Aliens: Fireteam Elite gameplay to show off from our recent experience with a preview build of the game! In this footage we tried out one of the challenge cards: “Explosions!” Which is a gameplay mutator that changes all of the Runner Xenomorphs into weaker Bursters. With this many Bursters running around it was a ... [Read More]

Shared to social media by Cold Iron today, we have our first good look at some of the Pathogen (or ‘Black Goo’) based enemies we’ll be facing when Aliens: Fireteam Elite releases next month! Meet the ‘Popper’ and the ‘Stalker.’ Their ghostly white appearance definitely give us some Neomorph vibes! From Cold Iron: “Pathogen enemies will quickly rush at ... [Read More]

With the new September solicitations from Marvel, we have our first look at the covers for Alien Issue #7, which will begin the 2nd story arc of Marvel’s current on-going Alien series.The creative team from the first arc, writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson and artist Salvador Larroca will be returning for the new arc. It’s currently unknown if Guru-eFX will be ... [Read More]

After a bit of silence following the month-long coverage from IGN back in March, we have a new look Aliens: Fireteam gameplay featured in a GameSpot interview with the game’s developers. Coming on the heels of the E3 gaming expo (which has gone virtual this year), GameSpot continued their ‘Play For All’ livestream where Cold Iron Studios CEO ... [Read More]

Concept artist Geoffroy Thoorens continues to treat us to new artwork showing us more glimpses of the world that we may have seen had Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 project come to fruition. Thoorens uploaded this additional batch of images to his website, following previous recent posts by the artist to their Instagram and ... [Read More]

Practical Effects workshop StudioADI or Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. is attached to work on the new Predator film currently known as ‘Skulls.’ We’ve been thinking this was increasingly likely for a while, when previously StudioADI co-founder Alec Gillis put out a hiring call a few months back. A few weeks ago Gillis also shared an ... [Read More]