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@Polygon The Alien Blackout game has been revealed for the first time and is a mobile game.



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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Thanks Farflame!

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lol... At least the video ratings are what they should be.
 
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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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JDR13 said:
Fuuuuuck…!

Talk about excitement turning into disappointment as I reached the end of that sentence. :(
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But you have a phone. :p
 
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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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Lemonhead said:
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.
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5-10 million sales is considered a hit by AAA standards.
Although Sega admitted that the sales of the game were weak & Creative Assembly originally considered the possibility of developing a sequel.

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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It's the curse of below expectations.

 
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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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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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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/artic...nts-weak-game-sales-even-as-hard-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.
 
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