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]

The fifth, and I believe final, piece of Alien Isolation DLC has been put onto Steam for pre-order: "Welcome to The Trigger, the fifth add-on content pack for Alien: Isolation. Can you make Sevastopol safe? You’ve been given a box of explosives and the locations to set them. All you need to do now is pull the trigger… and ... [Read More]

The sound design in Alien Isolation is one of my favourite aspects of the game. The sheer panic that hearing those footsteps would induce in me was astonishing. Amongst the multitide of awards that Creative Assembly's Alien Isolation has been awarded have included some specifically for the sound - and quite rightly! PC Gamer has just published an ... [Read More]

Anyone who has been following Alien Isolation's Twitter or Facebook feeds will be aware of the multitude of awards that the game has been racking up over the last few months. However, a particularly prestigous award body, the BAFTA Game Awards, has just unveiled their nominations for 2015. Clocking in with a total ... [Read More]

The team over at Alien Isolation have announced the fourth piece of downloadable content for Alien Isolation. Called Lost Contact, this DLC sees you playing as Axel (met in the main campaign of Alien Isolation) to get out alive: "‘Lost Contact’ reintroduces the character of Axel who some of you will remember encountering in the main game when Amanda ... [Read More]

AMD has posted up a YouTube video in which Creative Assembly developers Gary Napper and Michael Bailey talk development of the game engine used in Alien Isolation. They talk, amongst others, about creating the engine from scratch, the use of the lighting and their particle system: "Exclusive interviews with Lead Designer Gary Napper and Lead Engine Programmer Michael Bailey discussing ... [Read More]

After the release of Aliens: Colonial Marines in 2013, the fans of the franchise were distraught. It was a complete bitter disappointment in nearly every single facet. Then news of Alien: Isolation trickled down. Early on, weary of the disappointment of Colonial Marines, fans were skeptical of some of the early revealed aspects of the game. And then October 2014 ... [Read More]

I have just uploaded the 22nd episode of the AvPGalaxy Podcast. Episode #22 features AvPGalaxy staffers Corporal Hicks and RidgeTop, along with community guest Shevvie, taking a look back at the 35th anniversary year of Alien and discussing the multitude of releases that have come out in 2014. This includes Creative Assembly's fantastically received Alien Isolation, ... [Read More]

Whilst VGChartz has been reporting that Alien Isolation has sold over a million for sometime now, the team over at Creative Assembly have officially announced the fact today: "Today, we’re pleased to say that we’ve sold over one million units of Alien: Isolation worldwide! Since Alien: Isolation hit the shelves, it’s been an exciting time for ... [Read More]