They mostly come on PS4. Mostly.
For years and years and years, we got nothing but bad games based on the great Alien movies.
There was that awful Aliens: Colonial Marines in 2013, or the hella-dull Aliens V Predator in 2010, going all the way back to Alien: Resurrection on the PS1 back in 2000, or that bizarrely grim Alien 3 that arrived on the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo back in 1993.
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It took until 2014’s Alien Isolation to really give players that feeling of really being inside an Alien movie, and appropriately enough, it completely scared the crap out of everyone who played it.
Clip via IGN
Off the back of that game’s success, and the fact that Alien: Covenant made over $240 million at the box office, it would seem that there’s still some acidic life in the franchise yet.
To that end, FoxNext Games – the interactive element of 20th Century Fox Entertainment – have announced that they have bought Cold Iron Studios to develop a new Alien game, telling Games Industry that the intention is to “make games as important a part of Fox’s business as movies and television.”
“Cold Iron adds a whole dimension of game development and play to our arsenal: long play-session MMOs targeted to PC and console gamers. The kinds of games Cold Iron develops will enable us to deeply explore the worlds of our franchises, starting with the Alien universe.”
If you’ve shrugged due to lack of awareness at the mention of Cold Iron, don’t worry, it is because this will be their first game under this name. However, the company is made up of developers who have previously worked on the likes of Bioshock Infinite, Doom (the really good 2016 reboot), Borderlands and Metroid Prime.
A really good pedigree to keep the Alien franchise strong and scary for the foreseeable future.
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