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Horror Movies With Unbelievable Practical Gore Effects

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Marvelous Videos serves up a slice of practical gore effects… Computer-generated imagery, or CGI, has gotten a bad rep these days from film school dropout channels that believe the older way of creating is inherently better. No matter the flaws in their arguments, though, they do raise a point that, without proper rendering, CGI has […]

Aliens: Fireteam co-op survival shooter calls in the Colonial Marines

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Developer Cold Iron Studios has released an announce trailer for Aliens: Fireteam, a new co-operative third-person survival shooter set within the Alien universe. The game, set for release this summer, pits three-player teams of hardened Colonial Marines against over 20 enemy types, including various Xenomorphs from Facehuggers to Praetorians, along with Synthetics from the Weyland-Yutani […]

The Xenomorph makes its Marvel debut in trailer for new Alien series

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A cinematic horror icon is set to make its Marvel Comics debut this March with the release of Alien #1, kicking off a brand new series from writer Philip Kennedy Johnson and artist Salvador Larroca which promises to explore never-before-seen corners of universe created by Ridley Scott back in 1979. “As a lifelong superfan of […]

Marvel announces Aliens: The Original Years Omnibus Vol. 2

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Before it launches the license into a brand new era with its own series, Marvel is set to collect the classic Aliens comic book from Dark Horse beginning this April, and now the publisher has announced that the second volume of Aliens: The Original Years Omnibus will follow in August. A rogue scientist’s genetic experiments […]

Ridley Scott and Noah Hawley team for Alien TV series

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During Disney’s Investor Day virtual presentation, it has been announced that Ridley Scott is set for a return to the Alien universe for a brand new TV series at FX. Scott is set to team with Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley on the live-action series, the franchise’s first foray onto the small screen, and […]

Totally Bonkers Space Operas That Deserve More Love

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Ben Robins looks at four totally bonkers space operas that deserve more love… It’s easy to jump straight to the tried-and-tested regulars as far as space operas are concerned. Between the countless alien species, planets and barely pronounceable intergalactic languages, too many seem to end up on the wrong side of dense, and sticking with […]

New Alien film in the works but unlikely to revisit Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, says Ridley Scott

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Original Alien director Ridley Scott has confirmed that a new instalment in the long-running horror franchise is currently in development but it is unlikely to revisit the worlds and storylines set up by 2012’s Prometheus and 2017’s Alien: Covenant. “That’s in process. We went down a route to try and reinvent the wheel with Prometheus and Covenant,” Scott said […]