It’s hard to imagine a world in which Alien wasn’t followed by Aliens. Not only an incredible film that did so much for the Alien mythology, it was a film that had a huge impact on cinema, video games and pop culture. And yet it was a film that took 4 ... [Read More]

William Gibson was the first of several writers to be called upon to write Alien 3 for Brandywine and 20th Century Fox. Having just written Neuromancer, Gibson was considered something of a big up and comer. And unfortunately, his first draft was not quite what was expected. Following the story-notes ... [Read More]

For the last 13 years the UK Games Expo has been operating out of Birmingham where it brings publishers, exhibitors, retailers and hobby gamers together to check out new tabletop games coming out and to compete at existing games. I’ve only attended the UKGE twice in the past, competing ... [Read More]

The following is a guest editorial written by Michael Foertsch, a German freelance journalist who has previously written for WIRED Germany, Motherboard Germany, Spiegel, GamePro, Gamona and ZEIT.de. This article was originally published in German. In celebration of Alien 3’s 27th anniversary, Michael’s original article has been translated into English for ... [Read More]

William Gibson’s Alien 3 (aka Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay) is an adaptation of one of the two scripts that William Gibson wrote for Alien 3. Gibson’s scripts were actually the first done for Alien 3 and while his wild first draft has been easily accessible for a long time, ... [Read More]

A few weeks back I had the opportunity to watch all six of the Alien 40th Anniversary short films during a press event located on the 20th Century Fox lot in Los Angeles. Accompanying me was former staff member Mike Monaghan, who also joined Aaron and I on a Read More]

Unless you’ve been keeping off the Internet lately – likely avoiding those Avengers and Game of Throne spoilers? – you’ve probably seen some of the Internet hype around Alien: The Play, a stage version of Alien put on the drama club of the New Jersey North Bergen High School. Alien ... [Read More]

Whether you’re interested in the Colonial Marines or far flung colonies, Aliens is a film that really expanded the Alien universe with many world building elements, big and small. It offered a lot of tantalizing smaller pieces of lore such as the prospect of other non-acid blooded alien life out ... [Read More]

And that’s time called on our Alien Day competition! We had hundreds of entries for this one so thank you to each and every one of you who participated! So the answer the question how many Alien films Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. worked on was five! Both worked on ... [Read More]

We have just uploaded the 85th episode of the Alien vs. Predator Galaxy Podcast (right-click and save as to download)! Since today is Alien Day, we wanted to give you all something a little special so we went and tracked down one of the leading actors involved in making Aliens a ... [Read More]