The alien is not the only threat on board the station. That one sentence, flashing up as a loading screen hint, perfectly sums up the philosophy of Alien: Isolation. You might have one of sci-fi’s ...

Fear and tension are difficult reactions to provoke in fiction. In real life, sure, you just need a sharp thing to point at someone, but in entertainment creating sustained fear requires those making ...

'Alien Isolation' is out on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4 and PC from Tuesday October 7. 'Alien Isolation' is a first-person video game inspired by Ridley Scott's 'Alien'. That probably sounds awful, ...

In space, no one can hear you scream. But at SEGA’s HQ in London, everyone could hear my terrified shrieks. And that’s because I was experiencing the most frighteningly brilliant thing in gaming - ...

Cards on the table time: Alien is my favourite film, bar none. To me Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror masterpiece is the film my parents warned me was the most terrifying thing they’d ever seen; it’s ...

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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 ...