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 ...

The xenomorph gets a lot of credit for terrifying players in Alien: Isolation.For me, though, the most frightening segments have all involved Working Joes. The eerie android staff are supposed to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the best horror games of the 2010s was Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation, but it certainly took some time for audiences to see it in its proper light. Though it initially received mixed ...