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The mysterious Alien: Blackout has now been announced, six weeks after the name leaked, and sadly it’s not a sequel to Alien: Isolation. Alien: Blackout will bring back Isolation protagonist Amanda Ripley, but for a pocket telephone game rather than anything PC-y. Blackout actually sounds a bit like ye olde Alien game from the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, putting us behind a computer terminal using surveillance cameras and such to direct the crew around and evade the alien. Or a bit like Five Nights At Freddy’s. But whatever it is, it’s not a PC game, so it’s beyond our purview.

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