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 ...

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 ...

Instead, Alien: Isolation harkens back to the survival horror template of the genre’s heyday. The stalking, creeping Xenomorph, a marvel of contemporary artificial intelligence in gaming, cannot be ...

Alien: Isolation is a scary, scary game. As well it should be. Creative Assembly's 2014 hit could have sacrificed a measure of its fear-inducing supremacy in service of ever higher sales, believes ...

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 ...

Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...