For Backlog Month News Today

To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. For Backlog Month, I wanted to go back and play one game more than any other. One that had been casting the longest shadow over my back catalogue, a game that was both seemingly made specifically for me, but also made to keep me at arm’s length. T...

Half-Life shark fight), and my trusted solution to this problem is to simply never play horror games. Yet when Alien: Isolation came along in 2014, I was torn. The general premise, that I was going to be spending the whole game in a lavishly-recreated corner of an iconic cinematic universe, sounded perfect to me. And sure, I am very into Alien/ Aliens. But it was also going to be scary, because in this game the alien wasn’t target practice for my pulse rifle, it was unkillable, and it would...