Today sees the release of Creative Assembly's third piece of Alien Isolation DLC expansion pack, Safe Heaven. Safe Haven comes with new challenge modes well as new maps, in the form of Salvage and Marathon mode: "‘Safe Haven’ will allow you to play as new character Hughes, Sevastopol’s Station's Communications Manager. Trapped in a safe room and desperate to escape, Hughes’ ... [Read More]

As part of the Alien Isolation: 24 Days of Christmas, the good folk over at Creative Assembly have been releasing various pieces of concept art, notifications for your phone and a whole slew of Alien Isolation goodies. To cap the 24 days of Christmas off, Creative Assembly has released the Alien Isolation comic in its entirety ... [Read More]

Following on from our reveal that Creative Assembly would be releasing two new difficulty modes for Alien Isolation, the new modes have been officially released in an update for the game: "Nightmare Mode: We’ve seen a number of players with extremely strong dispositions demand more challenges for their Alien: Isolation encounter – another try at survival against tougher ... [Read More]

Alien: Isolation has been out for several months now and is considered a solid contender for game of the year by many. If you are one of the fans who has already beaten the game, chances are you were left with many new questions about Creative Assembly's Alien title. AvPGalaxy recently spoke with Alien: Isolation's Lead Game Designer, Gary Napper, ... [Read More]

Creative Assembly has just announced the second Survivor map pack for Alien Isolation, Trauma, and issued a challenge to the community: "‘Trauma’, will see you exploring the three new maps as Sevastopol’s medical officer, Dr Lingard, who you may have already encountered in our main game. Racked with guilt and feeling responsible for bringing the creature on board, ... [Read More]

The good folk over at Creative Assembly are going to be doing an online advent calendar of Alien Isolation related goodness to bring joy and terror to your Christmas celebrations! "‘Tis the season and we’re getting in to the festive spirit with our Alien: Isolation Advent Calendar. From now until the 24th December, there will be an Alien: Isolation goody to ... [Read More]

Alien Isolation has finally got its first patch post-release, albeit for the PS4 and X-Box One versions. Patch 1.1 fixes the long-running problem of choppy cut-scenes that has been plaguing the consoles and to a lesser extent PC since release. According to developer Creative Assembly, this was caused by a difference between the retail units and the machines the game ... [Read More]

Creative Assembly have announced the first of five Survivor DLC additions, to be released on the 28th of October: "In ‘Corporate Lockdown’, you step in to the shoes of Ransome, a Seegson Executive. On discovering that he’s been abandoned by his paymasters and aware that the Torrens is on the way, he decides to hitch a ride and ... [Read More]

I have just uploaded the 19th episode of the AvP Galaxy podcast. This episode sees myself (Corporal Hicks) and fellow staffer RidgeTop joined by community guest star Shevvie as we discuss the recently released Alien Isolation. Beware there are spoilers so if you haven't finished the game it maybe wise to avoid this one. However, we do give spoiler ... [Read More]

I know we're a little late to the party with Alien Isolation reviews but we were unable to secure an advanced copy of the game to review so I've taken my time with it. Needless to say I thoroughly enjoyed myself; if being left a shivering mess whilst the adrenaline levels in my body re-adjust can be called enjoyment, which ... [Read More]

Alien Isolation debuted at number two in the UK game charts last week losing out to Fifa 15 which has been number one for the last three weeks. New entries include Driveclub at 5, Skylanders at 7 and NBA 2K15 at 8. In comparison, both 2010's Aliens vs Predator and 2013's Aliens Colonial Marines debuted at first ... [Read More]

The guys over at Eurogamer have published an interesting article testing the performance of Alien Isolation across all platforms to see how they compare with each other. The article goes very in-depth about various graphical issues and framerates but here's the main points: PC is the best platform for Alien Isolation but only just. The graphics are only slightly better on ... [Read More]

A series of dialogue lines and mission objectives relating to five potential DLC packs for Alien: Isolation have now been discovered via the game's files. The DLCs are referred to as Tech Comms, Sci Hospital, Hab Airport, Hab Shopping Centre and Penthouse in said files. Each DLC seems to be connected to a character alluded to in the main ... [Read More]