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Alien Isolation Comes To Switch December 5

Alien Isolation Comes To Switch December 5

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Earlier this year, developer Feral Interactive announced they were porting the survival horror game Alien Isolation to the Nintendo Switch, and that it’d be released before the year was through. The timing is tight, but it looks like they’ll just make it: the game is confirmed for a December 5 release. The game was originally developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega on the PS3, PS4, XBox 360 and XBox One (it ended up hitting the gen shift and had to publish on new and old consoles to cover everybody). It’s generally considered to be the best Alien game ever made….an engaging, captivating, and terrifying experience, even if the Xeno’s AI seems to be cheating. In an original story set fifteen years after the events of the film, players take on the role of Ellen Ripley’s daughter Amanda, who seeks to discover the truth behind her mother’s disappearance. Marooned aboard the remote space station Sevastopol with a few desperate survivors, players must stay out of sight, and use their

Developers Spill Gaming’s Dirty Secrets In Twitter Thread

Developers Spill Gaming’s Dirty Secrets In Twitter Thread

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Something pretty fascinating happened over the weekend in gaming: Game designer Jennifer Scheurle, who currently works for developer Opaque Space, tweeted an open call to all game developers: “Hey #gamedev, tell me about some brilliant mechanics in games that are hidden from the player to get across a certain feeling.” The tweet caught on and received many replies from other developers, some of whom worked on the biggest games of the last few years. If you’ve ever wondered if game physics and AI ever cheat, the answer would appear to be a resounding YES — but it’s all meant to give you a better gameplay experience. Developer Chevy Ray revealed something that is true for a lot of games out there: they compensate for some players’ poor reflexes. “We have a term called “coyote time” for when the player walks off a platformer ledge and presses jump too late, but the jump still works.” Tommy Thompson confirmed what you always suspected about Alien Isolation: “The Xenomorph has two brains: one

Alien: Isolation Developers Considering VR Support

Alien: Isolation Developers Considering VR Support

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With the current push towards virtual reality technology in gaming, thanks to the ever-growing popularity of the medium, more and more publishers and developers are looking to make their titles compatible with VR devices. The latest to throw their hat into the ring is Sega, who recently confirmed that they are considering supporting VR headsets with some of their titles – including the critically acclaimed Alien: Isolation. There are a few mods for the game on PC that allow players to use devices such as Oculus Right but they are incredibly buggy and don’t work properly. This has left many players wanting to get an official version of the game that fully supports virtual reality. “VR has caught the whole company’s attention,” Sony European head Jurgen Post said in an interview with MCV. “We have a lot of VR kits in the office and people are playing with it. We are exploring ways to release games. We’ve not announced anything, but we are very close to making an announcement.” “We

Sega Disappointed with "Weak Sales" For Alien: Isolation?

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Numbers are everything for some companies, as they show how well you are doing, or how badly you are failing. In terms of video game companies, specifically software companies, numbers show how well you did with the games you made, or how far below expectations you are. Yet sometimes, these expectations are incredibly high, and thus when the results are seen, it makes you wonder why they set that high a standard in the first place. For Sega, they recently released their financial results for the past year (via IGN) (which for them ended on March 30), and though their sales of physical copies of games were up 41%, they were really disappointed with how some of their games did. Key among them was Alien: Isolation, which has sold 2.1 million copies to date. This is incredibly curious that Sega finds that “weak,” as some games never reach the one million sales mark in their lifetimes, let alone two. The curiosity continues when you find out that Sonic Boom (a game

Alien: Isolation behind “Creating the Cast”

Alien: Isolation behind “Creating the Cast”

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The “Creating the Cast” trailer for Alien: Isolation, released Friday, is closer akin to a director’s promotional diary depicting their creative process than it is a game trailer trying to get players hyped for the new title. But longtime fans of the Alien franchise will probably appreciate the almost cinematic treatment by which The Creative Assembly is handling the new Alien game. The “Creating the Cast” trailer for Alien: Isolation focuses on the mo-cap acting and development of the game’s characters, but also sheds a little light on the game’s atmosphere and setting, which is to take place on a space station called Sevastopol  that has fallen into a state of disorder. While it appears the titular Alien will be the primary antagonist of Alien: Isolation, Gary Napper, one of the game’s designers, said that the Alien will not be the only threat that players face on Sevastopol and hinted toward the addition of human threats along with alien. The trailer doesn’t focus overtly on any one member of the