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This Creepy-Cool Metroid Poster Gives A Shout Out To Alien
Lovers of Nintendo’s sci-fi action franchise know that Metroid’s female protagonist and a cosmic ecosystem of creatures that nest all over the galaxy were inspired by Ridley Scott’s classic space horror film Alien. A new poster by artist Marinko Milosevski (who we’ve featured before) honours that thematic connection with a darkly cool image done in a movie poster style.
The Aliens: Colonial Marines Demo Looked Great, The Game Not So Much
By almost all accounts, Aliens: Colonial Maries isn’t a good game. Patricia certainly didn’t care for it, saying that “it was literally a pain just to get through”.
The Alien From Aliens Was Originally Chinese, Alleges Flea Market Art Find
Swiss surrealist artist H. R. Giger is credited with designing the Alien (née Xenomorph) from the iconic movies and games.
What Your Favourite Alien Movie Says About You
Clearing Up – Sort Of – Where Colonial Marines Fits In Aliens Canon
When Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ official game announcement billed it as a “true sequel to James Camerson’s classic Aliens“, diehard fans of the film trilogy took that to mean the game would undo the events of the controversial Alien 3, harshly criticized by Aliens director James Cameron and some of its principal cast. Not so, says the studio making Colonial Marines.
