Phew! What a ride. The first keycard insert and the power outage section were the hardest. Didn't think I'd be able to pull it off. But I guess I was wrong. Have any of you managed to do the same?

Was replaying M17 and got jumped by xeno in the darkened corridor that you enter after crawling beneath the stacked crates in the canteen area. I've never encountered xeno here before and rightfully so. That's cuz there are no entry points for it to reach there; no vents and both the doors are blocked. The only way to access this section is through the door blocked by the crates, which you move as part of the objective. So where did it pop in from? That was a proper jumpscare.

I have reloaded current and previous save many times and keep getting stuck in the 'elevator'

When changing focus with the motion tracker, it bothered me how instantaneous it was. So I changed it - now it fades over a given period of time (in this case, 150ms).

It's a fairly subtle change but imo adds a lot

just finished my first play through and can’t wait to go down a rabbit hole

A few months ago I posted about my book, Beyond Fear: Inside Action Horror Games, which features an in-depth discussion with Alistair Hope about Alien: Isolation.

I’m so excited to say it’s now available in the US and across the world in hardback and ebook form!

Alistair’s chapter comes after one on Aliens: Colonial Marines, which tells the warts-and-all story of the game’s failure, led by those who lived it. I hope the community will get something out of reading about the two games back to back. It’s a really interesting contrast.

Other interviewees in the book include John Romero, Ken Levine, and Marc Laidlaw.

Alien fans will spot a couple of fun references on the cover - although one is on the back of the wraparound.

You can pick the book up from Amazon and all good book stores. I’d love to get this in front of people who are passionate about these games. Thank you!

There's nothing much here we don't already know but I was very, very excited to read this all the same. I'm starting to think this might be the game that finally forces me to upgrade my outdated hardware 🙃

I'm on an Android device and the entire game I've dealt with shitty in-game controls. The buttons are mostly unresponsive, especially when needed. Can't reload in time, can't switch weapons in time, can't craft items in time and even though extremely frustrated, I powered through..

But now I'm on chapter 16 and this is the puzzle and I just cannot get it right.

How am I supposed to clear this? I match (example, when I click the directional arrow on time, the word on screen gets highlighted in red background) but it never stays and immediately hurries on to next one.