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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alien: Isolation 2 has a difficult job ahead. The original turned a single Xenomorph into one of gaming's most effective horror threats, and the sequel now has to make that same creature frightening ...

We’ve waited 12 years for Alien Isolation 2, but in the game, it’s only been a few months. At Summer Game Fest 2026, we finally got our hands on the game. What they showed wasn’t just a sequel, it ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...