In the 35 years since Ridley Scott's Alien first terrified audiences around the world, the creature created in the twisted mind of artist HR Giger has slowly been diminished. Video games in particular ...

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 ...

Alien: Isolation may just be the best game adaptation from the Alien franchise managing to capture the sheer fear and horror of what the franchise is about. We do know something related to Alien is ...

It's been a long time since I played a horror game where I needed someone else present in the room just to give me a little bit of reassurance. I couldn't play Silent Hill 2 on my own, couldn't play ...

In Space Invaders, no one can hear you scream. Movie classic Alien is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year with a new video game. And Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film ...

In Alien Isolation, the first-person survival horror game from Creative Assembly, you end up carrying a revolver - at one point you can even pick up a flamethrower - and as you're exploring the giant, ...

A metallic “clank” echoes above sending my nerves into hysterical overdrive. I freeze, too scared to gently push the analogue stick of my controller forward slightly just in case it makes a noise.

The follow-up to Alien Isolation might only be a mobile app, but it’s an impressively tense and scary one… By now we should know better than to say that any game franchise has completely exhausted its ...

In a very BAFTA’ry move, the game with most award nominations in this year’s gongfest is one we are very unlikely to see again as SEGA are moving away from AAA consoles games. Alien: Isolation leads ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Next time you stream a game, keep one thing in mind; the developer might be keeping an eye on your gameplay. "I love watching them play. It's just great. It's like free praise," says Catherine Woolley ...