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

The first physical evidence that the makers of Total War are working on an Alien-related tie-in has emerged, via a very blurry screenshot.

The fact UK developer Creative Assembly is working on a horror game based on the original Alien movie has been not-quite-a-secret for almost two years now, but for the first time proof of the title has emerged.

The screenshot above comes from Creative Assembly’s own website, although it appears to have been accidently included in a much more general photo of the company’s office. Either that or it was intentionally left in to see just how closely fans were paying attention.



As far as we can gather website AvPGalaxy was the first to notice what it describes as a female crash test dummy wearing a T-shirt with the patch of the Nostromo on its shoulder. The Nostromo was the ship from the original Alien movie and certainly the rest of the screenshot looks like it could be set on-board.


Although Creative Assembly is best known for strategy franchise Total War they have dabbled in the action genre before, with a range of rugby games and Total War spin-offs Spartan: Total Warrior and Viking: Battle For Asgard. Although neither of the latter two were very good.

Either way a horror-themed game based on Ridley Scott’s original movie seems a huge change of pace, but that’s exactly how the game was described to us by an insider at Sega. That was during a press event for Aliens: Colonial Marines over a year ago though, so why there hasn’t been an official unveiling we’re not sure.

Both Creative Assembly and Sega have been occasionally alluded to it in public, and even now there’s an Alien poster on their Twitter feed. That hopefully means the game hasn’t been cancelled and that an announcement is imminent.

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