Near the end of the year 2018, Fox started teasing on their social channels that the “Alien Universe expands” in 2019. One of the things we picked up on in the hashtags of those teases was the mention of Amanda Ripley, with many speculating the espionage-style entries were coming from her. With us having ventured into the new ... [Read More]

For the last year and a half virtual reality developer Nibre has been working on MotherVR, a mod to bring virtual reality to Alien: Isolation. Back in August 2017 our own RidgeTop dared to sit down and give an early build of MotherVR a go. If you haven't already, you can check out what RidgeTop thought of ... [Read More]

Alien: Isolation's Amanda Ripley & Aliens: Defiance's Zula Hendricks are returning for a new comic series titled Aliens: Resistance! Billed as a sequel to both Isolation and Defiance, Brian Wood is returning for scripting duties with artwork by Robert Carey, colours by the returning Dan Jackson and covers by Roberto De La Torre. The legendary Tristan Jones' is also returning to provide variant ... [Read More]

DragonCon 2018 is currently taking place in Atlanta and like 2017's event, with the event comes the announcement of a new Alien novel. And this one is something of a surprise! There are no further details as of yet so it's unknown if this is an adaptation of Alien: Isolation or a sequel. While none of the ... [Read More]

A new Alien: Isolation mod entitled "MotherVR" has brought VR functionality to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on PC. Modder Zack "Nibre" Fannon has taken what once was only compatible with the development kit model of Oculus and ported it to the consumer version. Alien: Isolation VR mode was previously demoed at E3 2014 leading up to the ... [Read More]

Sega hints at a VR Release of Alien: Isolation! Talking to Market for Computer & Video Games, Sega Europe's President Jurgen Post has been hinting at the possibility of Alien: Isolation seeing a virtual reality release! “VR has caught the whole company’s attention,” Post explains. “We have a lot of VR kits in the office and people are ... [Read More]

It seems even more unlikely that we'll be getting a sequel to Alien Isolation any time soon. Back in May 2015, we heard that Alien Isolation had shifted 2.11 million copies in North America and Europe and Sega was reportedly disappointed with the sales performance. In a new interview with GameIndustry.biz, Creative Assembly's studio director, Tim Heaton, ... [Read More]

Sega has just released its annual fiscal report, revealing that Alien: Isolation has surpassed 2.1 million copies sold; essentially doubling its sales since hitting the 1 million mark reported back in January. GameInformer is one of the outlets that have been reporting on Sega's numbers, and it seems the company's earnings have been kind of a mixed ... [Read More]

Early in March 2015 the team from Creative Assembly took to the stage at Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The footage of the original Alien Isolation pitch video and the third person perceptive came from this event. The conference in its entirety has now been posted up in the ... [Read More]

Peter Justin, one of the hosts of the wonderful new podcast Perfect Organism: The Alien Saga Podcast has posted up an e-mail interview he conducted with Kezia Burrows back in November 2014. Kezia Burrows was the performer for Amanda Ripley for Creative Assembly's recent Alien Isolation: "When I was initially cast I was voice, along with likeness/motion ... [Read More]

The 2015 BAFTA Game awards ceremony has just concluded in London. Alien Isolation received six nominations and ended up winning the award for Best Audio Achievement. The awards for Best Music went to Far Cry 4, Best British Game went to Monument Valley and Best Game Design went to Shadow of Mordor. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter won Best Game Innovation and Best Game went to ... [Read More]

Creative Assembly have seemingly began work on a new AAA console and PC game and have posted various job advertisements mentioning a mystery game. A job listing for an Online/Multiplayer Programmer has been spotted on their site which mentions a new game for PS4, X-Box One and PC platforms with online play. This sort of rules out any ... [Read More]

For a long time Alien Isolation was going to be third person. In fact, our first glimpse at the game were of that third person perspective. The game then turned to the first person perspective during development which was something we discussed during our visit to Creative Assembly last year. They revealed to us that their original pitch ... [Read More]