[STEAM] Alien: Isolation sequel bursts into existence, 10 years after original

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The Alien franchise is about uncaring monsters, unfeeling corporations, and horrific, claustrophobic *******. Given this setting, it almost made sense, what happened to the original Alien: Isolation.

The game was released to

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, and sold more than 2 million copies within its first few months. Despite this, Isolation only got "close to break-even or just about in the ******," then-Creative Assembly studio director Tim Heaton

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a year after release. With the rapid evolution of AAA game development, that wasn't enough. And so, like a salvage team diverted to a bio-******* recovery mission, Isolation and its momentum were seemingly

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Gameplay and review accolades for Alien: Isolation, released 10 years ago today. Abandoned, that is, until today, the 10th anniversary of that game's 2014 release. The appropriately named Al Hope, creative director of Isolation studio Creative Assembly,

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(formerly

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) that his team had "heard your distress calls loud and clear," and could confirm that "a sequel to Alien: Isolation is in early development."

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