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Alien: Isolation is most certainly a survival horror game, but you won't spend all of your time dodging the Xenomorth. There will be moments of intense "action" where you must survive being hunted, and then down periods as well.

Alien: Isolation looks fantastic, there's little room for debate on that matter, but people are still worried that the reality might not live up to that original trailer. And rightly so: SEGA (or Gearbox, more so) screwed up in a big way with Colonial Marines. Isolation isn't some flash in the pan knee-jerk reaction to the hate though, it's been in development for three and a half years, an amount of time that seems rather long.

Looking for something to scare your socks off? Alien: Isolation looks like it might actually be that game, and while we've been disappointed by the IP before, SEGA look to have fixed things completely this time around. Horror? Check. Deadly aliens? Check. Unnecessary character link to previous entries? Check. Hell - it could even be a new entry in the film franchise.

When you're talking gaming classics, there are few titles that actually manage to live up to that word. The medium just hasn't been around long enough, nor did it have the early popularity, to create the level of icon that early-ish film did. If anybody, Sonic the Hedgehog deserves to be one of those gaming icons, and his first adventure is coming to the 3DS eShop in the UK this week.

Sonic Dash has been an iOS must-have since it was released, and it's taken far too long for it to come to Android. It's now available though, and is free-to-play from the Google Play store in the US right now.

One of the best light-gun style zombie games ever didn't even use a light gun. Typing of the Dead was a House of the Dead spin-off in which instead of aiming at oncoming undead, you instead typed a random word as quickly as you could.

A prototype version of ToeJam and Earl 3 for the Sega Dreamcast has been discovered. A user by the name of ZakhooiTM on Assembler, a forum that focuses on video game oddities, posted these findings and included some video footage of this unreleased game. ZakhooiTM plans on releasing it to the public  through a fundraising drive. In the meantime, check out 30 minutes of gameplay footage below. It’s definitely an early build, and how much of the game is available…

The latest edition of Famitsu has been released and it contains the first review score for Sonic Lost World. Although the review has yet to be translated, we can see from the score that it's been reviewed very positively, getting 9/9/9/9. By comparison, Sonic Generations got 8/9/9/9 and Unleashed got 9/9/9/7.

Sonic the Hedgehog is getting a little long in the tooth now. Although Generations showed him at his best, and there are definitely a lot of people excited for Lost Worlds, there's also some interest in where the series might go next. Might we see some of the large (and ever increasing) roster of minor characters take the centre spot-light, not unlike Luigi in this year's Super Luigi U?

The SEGA Dreamcast was released on this day 14 years ago in North America. Way ahead of its time, the Dreamcast was the first console to have first party online support and gave us a glimpse of what the future of gaming would be like with titles like Sonic Adventure pushing graphics and speed ahead of anything else on the market.