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Through the squelching din we searched every corner of the room with our flashlights. There, wrapped up in webby bio-matter, was a cocooned human survivor. Cutting them free showed no signs of ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There haven't been many games that have adapted the Aliens name that have managed to capture the essence of what makes many of its early films so ...

"I really should have explored more of the map." That was what I was thinking as waves of xenomorphs hurled themselves at my squad. They’d taken cover behind a large map terminal and, with the help of ...

Aliens: Dark Descent is a fresh and fun take on the series, with great tactical action supplemented with unique concepts like stress management. The writing and characters sadly don't amount to ...

As opposed to other Aliens games shown through a first-person or third-person perspective, this game features a top-down view instead since it’s a strategy game where you’re meant to guide your ...

Andrew is a science-fiction/adventure-horror writer from the UK and a graduate of Falmouth University currently working for both GameRant and DualShockers. At ...

If you saw the announcement trailer for Aliens: Dark Descent at last June’s Summer Games Fest and thought, OK, another squad-based shooter, well, think again. A gameplay video shown by IGN on Tuesday ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. As the commander of a squad of Colonial Marines, you'll be tasked with investigating a colony that has gone dark after a sinister uprising broke out.

Even with all the wild genre mashups I've seen over the last several years, I don't think I could have ever predicted a survival horror RTS. And that's basically what Aliens: Dark Descent boils down ...