edgecrusher said:

The Sun claims gaming is 'as addictive as heroin' Brings new meaning to the phrase: Shoot em up

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Anything can be addictive....in fact if you think about it, everyone is basically addicted to SOMETHING. Humans have addictive personalities.

People get addicted to work, music, sports, drugs, liquor, sex, TV, games, shopping, food.....etc.

Some things are just more accepted to be addicted to than others.

If you had read that article, you would know that mcv completely debunked it already.  Also, it depends on what you like to call an addiction.  Is merely doing something multiple hours a day an addiction?  Is it an addiction when you suffer withdrawal symptoms if you refrain from doing it for some time?  Is something an addiction if it becomes so big that it prevents you from functioning normally?

The updates in the mcv article are hilarious though.  They got called out by the Sun for their shoddy journalism, so then they dug into it and completely shredded the Sun's article to pieces.  

Alien Isolation:

I'll pass on Oddworld New and Tasty. It's one of those franchises that just never clicked with me for whatever reason.

Something about that pic makes me think they need cards in their hands.

travo said:

Something about that pic makes me think they need cards in their hands.

Or dog heads.

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Wow the Alien Isolation picture of the original Alien cast is for DLC, what assholes.

ALIEN: ISOLATION PRE-ORDER CONTENT UNITES ORIGINAL MOVIE CAST
Sigourney Weaver and Key Cast Members from Ridley Scott’s Classic 1979 Film Alien^TM Add Their Voice and Likeness to Two Downloadable Bonus Levels

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON – July 9, 2014 – SEGA® of America, Inc., SEGA® Europe, Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products today announced exclusive pre-order bonus content for Alien: Isolation™, featuring the vocal talent and likenesses of key cast members of the 1979 Ridley Scott masterpiece, Alien. Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winner Sigourney Weaver (Ellen Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas), Veronica Cartwright (Lambert), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett), Yaphet Kotto (Parker) and Ian Holm (Ash, likeness and sound-alike) are set to feature in two downloadable bonus missions, which allow you to relive two classic scenes from the movie.

The worldwide video premiere of the cast can be seen in the brand new Pre-Order Trailer exclusively on IGN.com herehttp://www.ign.com/videos/2014/07/09/alien-isolation-pre-order-dlc-trailer

“Working with the original cast has been an incredible experience,” said Alistair Hope, Creative Lead on Alien: Isolation. “It was important to us to have the key original cast members reprise their roles in order to perfectly capture the atmosphere of the movie. For some of the original cast, this is their first appearance in an Alien video game. Seeing them reprise those roles after 35 years was an unforgettable experience.”

Anyone who pre-orders the game will get a free upgrade to the Nostromo Edition, which includes the bonus content “Crew Expendable”. Players can choose to play as one of three surviving crewmembers, only moments after Brett’s death at the jaws of the creature. As Ellen Ripley, Dallas or Parker, players can explore the Nostromo from habitation deck down through engineering, coordinating their efforts with Lambert and Ash to lure the Alien into the ship’s airlock.

In addition, consumers who pre-order at GameStop will exclusively also receive “Last Survivor” in which players pick up the story as Ripley tries to escape on the Narcissus. On hearing the screams of Lambert and Parker, players must navigate their way back down through the Nostromo in order to activate the self-destruct sequence, before retracing their steps back to the Narcissus shuttle and their escape.

Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror game capturing the fear and tension evoked by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic film. Players find themselves in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger as an unpredictable, ruthless Xenomorph is stalking and killing deep in the shadows. Underpowered and underprepared, you must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission, but to simply stay alive.

Alien: Isolation will be available from October 7, 2014, for Xbox One the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Windows PC, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.

For more information and to keep ahead with the latest news, find us at alienisolation.com, follow us onfacebook.com/alienisolation and join the conversation on twitter.com/alienisolation.

Signing huge actors and making a big deal about for "unfinished" content, such garbage.

You'd think after the epic fuck-up that was Colonial Marines, Sega would be at least be somewhat interested in restoring some good faith to the Aliens franchise again. But no, that would require common sense and Sega abanoned that some time ago.

It certainly looks better, but this is a rare case where I wait on reviews.

travo said:

Speaking of Alien, I would absolutely love a port of the Aliens arcade game.

DLC