Alien: Isolation
2014 video game
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2024 | Alien: Romulus was released, incorporating several elements from the original game. |
October 7 2024 | On the 10th anniversary of the game's release, Creative Assembly announced that a sequel was in early development. |
October 31 2023 | Alien: Blackout mobile game was shut down. |
December 16 2021 | Alien: Isolation was ported to Android and iOS devices. |
October 14 2021 | Alien: Isolation was added to the Amazon Luna service. |
2019 | A television adaptation of the game was released. |
2019 | A novelisation by Keith DeCandido and a streaming television series adaptation by Jeff Juhasz and Fabien Dubois were released. |
2019 | Two comic book sequels, Aliens: Resistance and Aliens: Rescue, were released. |
2019 | Ported to Nintendo Switch and a television adaptation of the game was released. |
December 5 2019 | Alien: Isolation was ported to Nintendo Switch. |
January 24 2019 | A mobile spin-off game, Alien: Blackout, was released by D3 Go. |
2017 | Eurogamer reported that no sequel was in development and most of the original Isolation design team had left Creative Assembly. |
2015 | Tim Heaton, Creative Assembly head, stated that a sequel was 'not out of the question' but financially unfeasible. |
2015 | At the 11th British Academy Games Awards, Alien: Isolation won the Audio Achievement award and was nominated for Best Game, British Game, Game Design, Game Innovation, and Music categories. |
2015 | At the 14th National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers awards, Alien: Isolation won four awards: Game Engineering, Lighting/Texturing, Sound Effects, and Use of Sound, Franchise. |
2015 | The 15th Game Developers Choice Awards saw Alien: Isolation win Best Audio and receive nominations for Game of the Year and Best Visual Arts. |
2015 | Won the Best Audio award at the Game Developers Choice Awards and Audio Achievement at the 11th British Academy Games Awards. |
2015 | Ports of the game were released for Linux and OS X operating systems. |
May 2015 | The game surpassed two million copies sold by May 2015. |
March 2015 | Sales reached over 2.1 million copies in Europe and the US, though this was below Sega's sales expectations |
March 3 2015 | Final downloadable content pack 'The Trigger' was released. |
February 10 2015 | Fourth downloadable content pack 'Lost Contact' was released. |
January 2015 | Sega reported that Alien: Isolation had sold more than one million copies worldwide |
January 13 2015 | Third downloadable content pack 'Safe Haven' was released. |
2014 | Creative Assembly and Sega released Alien: Isolation, a survival horror game set 15 years after the original 1979 Alien film, following Amanda Ripley's investigation of her mother's disappearance. |
2014 | Napper and the team discussed potential sequel ideas for Alien: Isolation. |
2014 | Alien: Isolation won PC Gamer's Game of the Year Award, recognizing it as the top video game of 2014. |
2014 | The game won Best Horror Game at the GamesRadar's Game of the Year 2014 Awards. |
2014 | Kotaku Australia Awards 2014 honored Alien: Isolation with Console Game of the Year, Overall Game of the Year, and Biggest Surprise of the Year. |
2014 | At The Game Awards 2014, Alien: Isolation was nominated for Best Action/Adventure and Best Score/Soundtrack categories. |
2014 | Rock, Paper, Shotgun selected Alien: Isolation as their Best Horror Game of 2014. |
2014 | New Statesman named Alien: Isolation as The Best Game of 2014. |
2014 | The development team grows to 100 people by this year, expanding from a small initial team working alongside the Total War team. |
December 2 2014 | Second downloadable content pack 'Trauma' was released. |
October 28 2014 | First downloadable content pack 'Corporate Lockdown' was released. |
October 7 2014 | Official release date of Alien: Isolation. |
September 9 2014 | Alien: Isolation is released to manufacturing, marking the culmination of four years of development. |
August 2014 | A cinematic trailer was shown at Gamescom. |
June 2014 | Alien: Isolation was presented at E3 2014, where journalists could play the game and it was showcased on Oculus Rift. |
January 7 2014 | Official announcement of Alien: Isolation for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox 360, and Xbox One with the release of a teaser trailer. |
December 2013 | Initial screenshots of the game were leaked. |
October 2013 | Alien: Isolation trademark was registered. |
May 12 2011 | Alien: Isolation was first unveiled when UK government minister Ed Vaizey visited Creative Assembly and revealed on Twitter that the studio was hiring for an Alien game. |
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