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General News - Alien Blackout Revealed
January 7th, 2019, 22:48
@Polygon The Alien Blackout game has been revealed for the first time and is a mobile game.
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A new Alien game is coming to mobile. Survival horror game Alien: Blackout will star Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley and the protagonist of 2014's Alien: Isolation, when it comes to Android and iOS devices on Jan. 24.
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January 8th, 2019, 00:25
and is a mobile game.Fuuuuuck…!
Talk about excitement turning into disappointment as I reached the end of that sentence.
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January 8th, 2019, 01:13
That's the end of that franchise, I guess. Sent off to pasture on mobile devices, what a cruel fate. I guess the others did terrible sales for computers or something to warrant such a nasty demise.
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January 8th, 2019, 12:39
Is this the ex-blizzard developers that left to make this game?
Nope sorry they are working on a big budget Marvel mobile game instead.
Link - https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01…ew-marvel-game

Nope sorry they are working on a big budget Marvel mobile game instead.
Link - https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/01…ew-marvel-game
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January 8th, 2019, 13:18
Apparently it's not a sequel or related to Isolation, it just shares Amanda Ripley as the protagonist.
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/…you_dreamed_of
Big disappointment for sure.
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2019/…you_dreamed_of
Big disappointment for sure.
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January 8th, 2019, 14:00
Didn’t we get a pretty good PC game recently? Did it sell well? Who cares if there is a mobile game for the franchise
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January 8th, 2019, 14:04
Originally Posted by ToddMcF2002No from what I recall the last game Alien: Isolation was a flop.
Didn’t we get a pretty good PC game recently? Did it sell well? Who cares if there is a mobile game for the franchise
Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Isolation
Aliens: Colonial Marines sold better but was not a huge success in the end.
Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens:_Colonial_Marines
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January 8th, 2019, 14:41
Originally Posted by CacheperlGood one but its true compared to the two games I mentioned.
Yup. Alien vs. Predator 2.
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Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_versus_Predator_2
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January 8th, 2019, 15:02
Originally Posted by CouchpotatoAlien: Isolation did ok I thought?
No from what I recall the last game Alien: Isolation was a flop.
Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Isolation
"As of March 2015, the game has sold over 2.1 million copies in Europe and the US."
I don't know what's considered bad sales for a AAA game though.
January 8th, 2019, 15:09
Originally Posted by Lemonhead5-10 million sales is considered a hit by AAA standards.
Alien: Isolation did ok I thought?
"As of March 2015, the game has sold over 2.1 million copies in Europe and the US."
I don't know what's considered bad sales for a AAA game though.
Although Sega admitted that the sales of the game were weak & Creative Assembly originally considered the possibility of developing a sequel.It's the curse of below expectations.
Later, it was revealed that most of the Alien: Isolation design team no longer worked at Creative Assembly, and that company was working on a new IP.
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January 8th, 2019, 15:38
If Alien Isolation didn’t do well then the license is probably done anyway because I believe the game was pretty well received. If nobody is buying then phone games is all we are going to see
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January 13th, 2019, 06:43
Alien Isolation was definitely no flop among those who actually played it.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/alien-isolation
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2…ien_Isolation/
Not sure how it did sales-wise, but it's probably safe to assume it wasn't a blockbuster in terms of profit since a sequel still hasn't been announced yet.
It's a shame because the game is fantastic.
https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/alien-isolation
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2…ien_Isolation/
Not sure how it did sales-wise, but it's probably safe to assume it wasn't a blockbuster in terms of profit since a sequel still hasn't been announced yet.
It's a shame because the game is fantastic.
January 13th, 2019, 07:09
Keyword being those who played it. Sega already admitted sales were weak. Which is probably why this is a mobile game, and a new comic sequel was released instead.
In September 2018, a comic book sequel to Alien: Isolation Aliens: Resistance was confirmed. The first volume is set to be released in January 2019.
The same month, a survival horror sequel entitled Alien: Blackout, was announced for mobile devices and is set to release on 24 January 2019.
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Last edited by Couchpotato; January 13th, 2019 at 10:09.
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January 13th, 2019, 07:48
Alien: Blackout isn't a sequel, though that doesn't make it any less disappointing to me.
January 13th, 2019, 09:41
Check out the article below about Isolation having insufficient sales numbers. I remembered this being posted on Blues News. I never really expected a sequel to come after seeing this.
Sega laments "weak" game sales even as hard numbers rise
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl…d-numbers-rise
Such an awesome game though. Certainly the best in the franchise. Creative Assembly really went all out on it.
I am somewhat looking forward to trying Blackout though. I'm curious about what that little developer has put together. They obviously tried to throw in some vibes from Isolation.
Sega laments "weak" game sales even as hard numbers rise
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl…d-numbers-rise
Such an awesome game though. Certainly the best in the franchise. Creative Assembly really went all out on it.
I am somewhat looking forward to trying Blackout though. I'm curious about what that little developer has put together. They obviously tried to throw in some vibes from Isolation.
Last edited by swaaye; January 13th, 2019 at 10:03.
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