Alien teaser hints at Amanda Ripley game about the Nostromo, out this year (Updated)

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Fans are hoping for an Alien: Isolation sequel.

Update: Alien: Blackout is a mobile game, unfortunately. Coming out soon, players will have to help Ripley and her crew survive on a broken Weyland-Yutani space station while they're being chased by a pesky xenomorph.  

We're still not 100% sure that it's a fully-fledged game—the teaser's strapline is "Read. Watch. Play", which hints at a possible mixed-media release. Fans are hoping for a full sequel to the excellent Alien: Isolation, but we'll have to wait and see. 

You can watch the full teaser below, and read on for my story about the original teaser tweet.

Original story: 

20th Century Fox's latest Alien teaser suggests fans of the franchise will soon find out more about Alien: Isolation protagonist Amanda Ripley, and the teaser's "Read. Watch. Play" strapline suggests that could involve a new game.

The teaser, below, says that Ripley's story "deserves to be told", and that whatever it's hinting at is "coming soon". Fans over on Reddit have suggested the strapline means a trio of new projects—perhaps a new comic book, film, and game—are inbound, or will at least be announced soon. That seems reasonable, although the "Play" bit could well be pointing to an ARG rather a fully-fledged Alien: Isolation sequel. Let's wait and see.

What do you think it means?

We know that FoxNext Games is working on a new Alien shooter (which is unrelated to Isolation), and that parent company 20th Century Fox has filed a trademark for the name Alien: Blackout. 

Samuel Horti
Samuel Horti

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.