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FoxNext officially announces Alien: Blackout as a mobile strategy game
It’s no secret that 20th Century Fox has big plans for the Alien franchise in 2019. We’re not getting a new movie anytime soon, but the film studio has confirmed that Cold Iron Studios is currently developing an untitled Alien shooter for release sometime this year, while Dark Horse Comics will publish a comic sequel to Alien: Isolation later this month.
This morning, they added a second Alien game to their schedule with the announcement of Alien: Blackout. Unrelated to Cold Iron’s shooter, Alien: Blackout is a mobile strategy game that will follow Isolation’s Amanda Ripley (the daughter of Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen) as she explores a crippled Weyland-Yutani space station:
The terror of Alien is brought to life in Alien: Blackout. Try to stay alive while trapped aboard a crippled Weyland-Yutani space station carrying a deadly Xenomorph as it tirelessly hunts you and the crew. Outsmart the perfect hunter by making perilous choices. Players must rely on the damaged controls of the space station or risk sacrificing crew members to avoid deadly contact, permanently altering the outcome of the game.
Survive seven fear-inducing levels by remotely guiding Amanda Ripley’s crew through increasingly challenging tasks using only the station’s emergency systems. The uncertainty and unpredictability of both the alien and her crew can impose total defeat for Amanda and the entire station.
Alien: Blackout is a unique fear-inducing horror mobile game experience that will test the inner nerves of both Alien and horror fans alike, where life can end in an instant.
Taking control of the space station’s central operating computer, players will need to operate a holographic map, surveillance cameras, and motion tracker as they attempt to guide Amanda and her crew to safety.
Alien: Blackout will be available to download through the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store on January 24. The game’s first trailer has been embedded above.
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20th Century Fox is teasing images from Alien: Isolation’s comic sequel
Alien: Isolation, Sega and Creative Assembly’s stealth-based interquel set between Alien and Aliens, was a huge hit with fans when it launched back in 2014. The developer even batted around a few sequel ideas, but sadly, nothing ever came to fruition.
However, that all changes in 2019… as long as you’re willing to pick up a comic book.
Dark Horse Comics will publish the first issue of Aliens: Resistance in January, and it reveals the next chapter in Amanda Ripley’s fight against Weyland-Yutani’s attempt to weaponize the Xenomorphs. Yesterday, we got a glimpse at the first images from this project as the Alien Anthology Instagram account began posting concept art from “A 6-Part Dossier Exposing the Secret History of Weyland-Yutani.”
Promising that “The Alien Universe Expands” in 2019, and written in an in-universe style, the “Dossier” depicts a Company plan to study the aftermath of a colony seeded with facehuggers:
A 6-Part Dossier Exposing the Secret History of Weyland-Yutani
Day 1: Arrived at the facility. Weyland-Yutani has poured massive resources into this orbital facility. I’ve come to investigate rumors about accidents in a secret research program. (1 of 6)Day 2: The facility is hiding a terrible secret. Highly aggressive mega-parasites with corrosive blood. They’re breeding them, using them for research. (2 of 6)
Day 3: Breeding program is a house of horrors. They’re torturing and killing people, using them as hosts for the larvae. Where did these people come from? (3 of 6)
Day 4: The experiments aren’t just in the lab. Company is sending the larvae somewhere. They’re using their own private military to move them. (4 of 6)
Day 5: It’s worse than I thought. They are dropping these payloads on the planet below. What is the company’s aim? (5 of 6)
Day 6: It’s a nightmare. They have infested and destroyed the Weyland-Yutani colony below. Killing all of the facility’s personnel. We have to expose this. I know they’ll try to discredit me. Or worse. (6 of 6)
20th Century Fox’s FoxNext Games publishing label plans to release a new Alien shooter in 2019, but it’s unknown if it’ll link up with Aliens: Resistance in any way. Right now, about all we know is that the game is in development at Cold Iron Studios, and that it might be known as Alien: Blackout.
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Alien: Blackout has been trademarked by 20th Century Fox for their next Alien game
Nearly a year ago, 20th Century Fox announced plans to produce a new shooter in the Alien universe with Cold Iron Studios. Earlier this week, we learned that the film studio may have settled on a title for the game, thanks to a new application with the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
There’s a chance it’s not connected to Cold Iron’s shooter, but according to the EUIPO, 20th Century Fox has trademarked the name Alien: Blackout for use with “computer game and video game software.”
That’s it for now, and we’re still quite a ways out from learning more about Alien: Blackout, but it tickles me that 20th Century Fox retained a law firm located on “Bishops Square” to file their EUIPO paperwork in London.
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