In space, no one can hear you scream. But that doesn’t make for very good horror, so let’s just pretend for a moment that you can scream in space, especially when there is a slimy eight-foot-tall ...

As in Alien, there’s only one Xenomorph (at least for most of the roughly 20 hours of gameplay). Isolation follows the lead of survival-horror descendants like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Clock ...

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 ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Alien: Isolation celebrated its 10-year anniversary on October 6, 2024. Below, we reexamine how the despite its great ideas, the game may not have ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Even a decade after its release, Alien: Isolation remains a standout experience. It's a monumental example of adaptation in video games, thanks to the ...