Audio plays a hugely important role in how we experience games, immersing players further into the gameplay. One misplaced sound could be the difference between immersion and comedy. As part of our ...

British video game developer The Creative Assembly uses sound effects and music to keep players in a permanently tense state when exploring its video game Alien: Isolation. The title is a spin-off ...

Alien: Isolation ($49.99) is one of the best games of the year, and a far cry from 2013's disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines. Instead of using James Cameron's Aliens as its foundation, as so many ...

The musical duo of Joe Henson and Alexis Smith is becoming more and more prolific in the world of video games. The pair have created the score for titles ranging from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – ...

Creative Assembly's game is worthy of Ridley Scott's original Alien. If you're a fan of that sci-fi horror classic, or survival horror, or stealth games, give Alien: Isolation a try.

This terrifying game is a passionate homage to a horror classic, an unusually clever and subversive triple-A title Sega; Xbox 360/Xbox One/PlayStation 3/PlayStation 4/PC (version tested); £45; Pegi ...

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British video game developer The Creative Assembly uses sound effects and music to keep players in a permanently tense state when exploring its video game Alien: Isolation. The title is a spin-off ...

One of the reasons Ridley Scott’s Alien was so terrifying is the reluctance to, in Scott’s words, “show you too much of the monster”. That slow burn, the fear of the unknown, glimpses of something ...