{"id":831,"date":"2025-12-14T04:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/a-new-aaa-alien-game-is-reportedly-in-the-works\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:44:01","slug":"a-new-aaa-alien-game-is-reportedly-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/a-new-aaa-alien-game-is-reportedly-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"A new AAA Alien game is reportedly in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/tv-movies\/alien-romulus-is-a-magnificent-return-to-form-193025453.html\"><em>Alien: Romulus<\/em><\/a> reawakened your appetite for the iconic <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014-10-03-alien-isolation-review-escape-claws.html\">sci-fi franchise<\/a>, the good news is that a promising video game could be on the way. According to an <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/new-alien-game-back-in-development\/\"><em>Insider Gaming<\/em><\/a> report, a new game for the Alien franchise is back in development. The report&#8217;s sources mentioned that the single-player game will be set in a &#8220;decaying space station&#8221; as an arcade survival horror that can be compared to &#8220;Shadow of [the] Tomb Raider with Xenomorphs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time we heard about this Alien game, which was <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/insider-gaming.com\/new-alien-game-in-development\/\">first reported<\/a> on in 2022 under the codename &#8220;Marathon.&#8221; According to <em>Insider Gaming<\/em>, the game has cycled through several developers, but more recently landed with Eidos Montreal, which developed <em>Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/em> and is currently working on the upcoming <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/xbox\/xbox-has-delayed-its-fable-reboot-until-2026-173118802.html\"><em>Fable reboot<\/em><\/a>. The report added that the game&#8217;s development budget was increased to less than $75 million, up from the initial $30 million budget from a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Insider Gaming<\/em>&#8216;s report noted that the game is still in &#8220;early development,&#8221; but could feature Ripley 8, the human-Xenomorph hybrid that was first seen in <em>Alien Resurrection.<\/em> The game&#8217;s details and release date are still subject to change, but <em>Insider Gaming<\/em>&#8216;s sources said the game is &#8220;in a good place at this point&#8221; and is expected to release in 2028 on all platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/a-aaa-game-for-the-alien-franchise-is-back-in-the-works-204401214.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/14\/a-new-aaa-alien-game-is-reportedly-in-the-works\/\">A new AAA Alien game is reportedly in the works<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Alien: Romulus reawakened your appetite for the iconic sci-fi franchise, the good news is that a promising video game could be on the way. According to an Insider Gaming report, a new game for the Alien franchise is back in development. The report&#8217;s sources mentioned that the single-player game will be set in a &#8220;decaying space station&#8221; as an arcade survival horror that can be compared to &#8220;Shadow of [the] Tomb Raider with Xenomorphs.&#8221; It&#8217;s not the first time we heard about this Alien game, which was first reported on in 2022 under the codename &#8220;Marathon.&#8221; According to Insider Gaming, the game has cycled through several developers, but more recently landed with Eidos Montreal, which developed Shadow of the Tomb Raider and is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}