Way back in 2016, a trio of former Cryptic developers —Â Craig Zinkievich, Shannon Posniewski, and Matt Highison — struck out on their own to form a new company called Cold Iron Studios. At the time, all we knew about the studio’s aim was that it was working on an AAA online action game.
Now we know better; we know that it’s Alien. As in, the long-running sci-fi horror film franchise with Ripley, Newt, and chest-bursting xenomorphs. Apparently Fox bought Cold Iron Studios fairly recently and decided that the developer would be perfect to make the latest Alien title. It will be published by FoxNext Games, the interactive entertainment branch of 20th Century Fox.
There isn’t much information yet on this game (including the title), but we do know that it will try to explore some untread areas of this universe. Fox is calling it an “action-packed persistent world,” and Craig Z told us in 2016 that it’ll have some MMO features, so there is some hint in there that it will be more than a lobby-based shooter.
“We’re all excited to be working on such a storied franchise,” Zinkievich said. “To explore areas of the universe that fans haven’t gotten to experience, to put a game in that setting, is incredible. Having the full force of the world-class creatives, producers and business team at Fox behind the project allows us to take our plans to the next level.”
