The problem is down to the approach. Developers often find themselves caught between two stools, on the one hand trying to retain the essence of what made the original so appealing, while also trying ...

To be fair to Alien Breed: Impact, at least the combat is pretty good – though the difficulty curve is dangerously erratic. From the top-down perspective, WASD controls player movement while the mouse ...

FOR those not familiar with the Alien Breed series, it is a top-down shooter unofficially based on the Alien films. The game, which was originally a hit in the 90s on the Amiga, is the follow up to ...

Set on the doomed and crumbling space ship The Leopold, the Alien Breed Trilogy charts the story of Theodore J. Conrad, chief engineer and right guy in the wrong place, as he attempts to reignite the ...

"It's a complete no-brainer," admits Team17's studio director Martyn Brown. "Even selling it at a much lower price, we're making twice as much money than if we put it out as a boxed product and ...

In this culture of remakes and reboots there are, realisitically, very few things that actually merit being reintroduced to a modern audience. In reality the reason that most things are remade is ...