In space no one can hear you announce a new Alien game

Update:

Sega has still refused to confirm or deny the existence of Alien Isolation, but a new insider leak suggests that the game will star Ripley’s daughter. The report from Kotaku suggests that the game will be released on both current and next gen consoles next year and that it’s a first person shooter with ‘both stealth and horror elements’ – with Dishonored and BioShock acting as the primary inspirations.

Interestingly the source also talks about Sega being dismayed at the quality of Aliens: Colonial Marines, with many at the publisher frustrated at the actions of developer Gearbox and the various accusations surrounding them. That sense of anger at how the game turned out is something we’ve also witnessed from our own sources, with Sega apparently undertaking a rigorous postmortem to identify everything that went wrong.



That Ripley has a daughter named Amanda is established in the Director’s Cut of Aliens, but due to how long Ripley has been in cryosleep it’s implied she’s died of old age (a picture of her is briefly shown, played by Sigourney Weaver’s actual mother). So perhaps the character in Isolation is actually her granddaughter – or the game is going to create some sort of corporate conspiracy around her real fate.


According to the Kotaku rumours the majority of the game will be spent in a single space station and there’s only one alien for the majority of the game. That means for most of the game you’ll be shooting ‘clones and soldiers’ The use of ‘vents, lockers, and melee weapons’ are also a ‘big part of Isolation’ according to the leak.

Original story:

20th Century Fox has registered a trademark for a new Alien-themed video game – one that sounds likes it’s the long gestating survival horror from the makers of Total War.

Since it is Fox that has registered the name and not publisher Sega there is a chance the trademark is primarily related to a movie but given that a sequel to Prometheus (shudder) is supposed to be the next film that seems relatively unlikely, especially as the trademark specifically talks about ‘computer game and video game software’.

What’s most telling is that the trademark is based on the original Alien film and not the more action-packed Aliens. Which together with the subtitle suggests something much slower-paced and more atmospheric than the recent Aliens: Colonial Marines.

That’s not as vague as it sounds though as Total War developer Creative Assembly have long been rumoured to be working on a game with exactly that description, and the logical assumption is that this is it’s name.

The only problem is that the game has never been officially announced and the blurry screenshot above is the only image to have ever leaked out from the project.

We do know from our own unnamed sources though that work has recently ramped up on Creative’s game and that it is apparently looking extremely impressive. In fact the comparison made to us was with Batman: Arkham Asylum, in terms of a game tie-in that got the feel of the source material dead-on.



The name of the game wasn’t revealed to us at the time but we do know that a second team at Creative is working on it, one completely unconnected to Total War.

What we don’t know though is when Sega will officially unveil the game. The trademark revelation suggests relatively soon, so perhaps the VGA awards in December.

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