Monster Mania is a monthly column celebrating the unique and varied monster designs in horror gaming. Minor spoilers ahead for Alien: Isolation Previously, for Monster Mania, I highlighted Alien: ...

Few monsters manage to terrify me. Demons and ghosts do absolutely nothing for me, and while home invasion and crazed serial killers get a reaction out of me, it never lasts. Sure, there are instances ...

Across the many stories set in the Alien universe, there’s evidence to suggest the xenomorphs are part of some kind of hivemind that, at some level, operates as a collective consciousness. The same ...

The “Alien” franchise has always lived on the overwhelming threat of a hunter lurking in the shadows, capable of gruesomely dispatching its prey in a fraction of a second. Equipping players with ...

Amanda Ripley (Andrea Deck) as she appears on the poster for 'Alien: Isolation' with a weapon in hand and a Xenomorph behind her. Image via 20th Century Fox Alien: Romulus has finally burst its way ...

A feeling of being safer than one really is. On April 26, 2026, coinciding with Alien Day, Sega released the first teaser video for the sequel to Alien: Isolation. The brief teaser marks the first ...

Ridley Scott's inimitable 1979 sci-fi thriller, Alien, expertly ratchets up the tension by not having the titular alien show up on screen until roughly an hour into the film. Following in Scott's ...

Horror gaming fans finally got a first look at the highly-anticipated sequel to Alien: Isolation, courtesy of a brand-new teaser trailer from developer Creative Assembly. Alien: Isolation has been ...

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