The 80s and 90s video gaming landscape was filled with games about war, westerns, and beating up people in the streets. There were also games about aliens, and typically, they were the villains in ...

Scott Baird is a contributor with over a decade's experience writing about video games, along with board games and tabletop RPGs. Scott has previously worked for Dexerto, Cracked, Dorkly, and Gamepur.

Modern sci-fi survival-horror games owe a lot to Alien, as decades after it was first released, Ridley Scott's film is still seen as the benchmark for cosmic terror ...