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: ...

Truth: there’s no form of entertainment better at scaring us than video games. Movies, TV shows, books, comics… all these things can be terrifying, when done well. But games have the innate advantage ...

Alien is back in the spotlight. Not only has Alien: Romulus proven to be a hit at the box office, there’s a TV series and a new game in the works. Sadly, the franchise’s gaming entries haven’t always ...

In Alien: Isolation, you're cowering in the dirt." Amanda Ripley follows in her mother's footsteps, working in space for Weyland-Yutani. She's busy welding when company man/android Samuels sidles in, ...

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 is about uncaring monsters, unfeeling corporations, and horrific, claustrophobic terror. Given this setting, it almost made sense, what happened ...