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There’s a famous scene in Aliens where Ripley and the company men watch as the marines make their way through a derelict colony base, giving orders and eventually seeing them succumb to untold numbers of xenomorphs over their helmet cams. Salvaged [official site] is that idea extracted and put into a videogame. You play a commander who controls and observes AI soldiers as they sweep…
Before my parents abandoned hope of me not growing up a degenerate and allowed me to watch murdermovies, I was fascinated by the local swimming pool's Aliens arcade cabinet and Terminator 2 pinball table - Cool Things I couldn't have. Ooh, the hours I spent watching bigger kids play or waggling the joystick as I pretended to play the demo! This... isn't quite going where…
Feature: The Worthiest Reticules Of All Time
Gathering together the best shooters is no easy task, but if you're looking for a new PC FPS to play, look no further. Your favourite game is at number 51.
Alien: Isolation Has Sold 2.1 Million Horrible Stalking Aliens
According to Sega's latest financial report, space stealth-em-up Alien: Isolation [official site] had sold 2.1 million units across all platforms at the end of March. It comfortably outsold the publisher's other new releases during the same year, such as Football Manager 2015 (810k sales) and the two Sonic Boom games (620k total sales).
Feature: From The Archive
Every Sunday, we reach deep into Rock, Paper, Shotgun's 141-year history to pull out one of the best moments from the archive. This week, Alec's 2007 celebration of the real meaning of Aliens, in (the original) Aliens versus Predator. Like every good geek, I have a favourite gaming moment. It's in Aliens Versus Predator, a vintage but oft-forgotten first-person shooter that gets mentioned by my…
Feature: The Suspense of an Ending
What if your computer wanted to kill you? Imagine entire worlds that contain nothing more important than a terrifying machine intelligence that absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. Through the filter of aliens, robots and an Atari 2600, here are some thoughts on why it's good to run, to hide and to die.
I sure hope that's the “RPS Release Radar” (patent pending) pinging, and not the “Approaching Alien Xenomorph Motion Tracker”. Why did we program them to sound the same? That was my mistake. I'll take the blame, but there was a two-for-one sale at “Stock Sounds For Imaginary Devices”. Hmm, I think it's RPSRR and not the AAXTM, as I'm also hearing that Sega's and Gearbox's…
And here's another one. We've known that Gearbox were working on an Aliens FPS - whose name has now been confirmed as Aliens: Colonial Marines - but Sega have released some more information. It's going to have a script from Battlestar Galactica (The Good one, obv) scribes Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, and while based on the mood and tone of the film, will take…
Midway's Harvey "Deus Ex" Smith has a bit to say about the development of environments and "gameplay ecologies" for his new shooter, Blacksite: I suspect Blacksite might actually be worth getting moderately excited about. Smith is at the controls, and there's both Gears Of War jump in/out co-op, Stranglehold's destructible environments, and some Brothers In Arms squad-control stuff. Area 51 might have been a bit…
Like every good geek, I have a favourite gaming moment. It's in Aliens Versus Predator, a vintage but oft-forgotten first-person shooter that gets mentioned by my games-hack peers about as often as the Pope says "are you sure this hat makes God happy?"
