Author Jonathan Hicks Runs An Online Game of Those Dark Places

As the release of Osprey's latest roleplaying game, Those Dark Places, draws ever closer, creator Jonathan Hicks runs an online one-shot for members of Garblag Games.

Alien RPG Writer Andrew E.C. Gaska Answers Fan Questions

Alien RPG Named "Game Of The Year"

At this year's (virtual) Gen Con, the gold Ennie Award for the Best Game Of The Year went to Free League's Alien RPG.

And check below for the recording of the live-streamed actual play of the scenario Hope's Last Stand:

Hope's Last Rest Actual Play For Gen Con Online

As part of this year's very different Gen Con experience (it's all virtual for 2020) Free League will be streaming an actual play of its Alien RPG scenario Hope's Last Rest on the Free League YouTube channel, starting at 3 pm EDT (8pm UK time) this Saturday (August 1).

You can click through now and set a reminder so you don't miss it.

Actual Play: Hope's Last Day

The crew from AVP Galaxy & Studio Yutani play through the Hope's Last Day cinematic scenario for the Alien RPG.

"Another Glorious Day in the Corps!"

Aliens: Another Glorious Day In The Corps! is a new co-operative, miniatures, boardgame from Gale Force 9, based on the battle of Hadley's Hope in James Cameron's seminal Aliens movie.

Originally scheduled for release any day now, in the current climate who knows when we'll actually get to see this in the wild!

This is definitely one to keep an eye out for.

Hopefully, we might hear something on, or around, Alien Day (April 26)

I can't help but be reminded of the incredible Leading Edge boardgame from back in the day, which I played the hell out of and then - for inexplicable reasons - sold, much to my enduring chagrin.

As that old game now commands seriously silly money on the secondary market, I guess it only makes sense to purchase this new game instead.

And it's got miniatures... and we all know my love of miniatures!

Aliens: Another Glorious Day in the Corps! is a co-operative survival board game where you and your team of specialist Colonial Marines will gear up with serious firepower and head into Hadley's Hope to find survivors and answers.

But you're not alone. To survive, you'll need to work together, keep your cool, and stay frosty to fight off relentless Xenomorph ambushes and get out of there alive.

Players can play up to six different missions, taking them into different areas from the Hadley’s Hope terraforming facility to the deep, dark recesses of an xenomorph nest.

Aliens also offers an exciting campaign mode to play four of the missions linked together, so players will need to fight relentless xenomorph attacks and keep each other alive all the way to the end of the campaign.

The remaining two missions are purely about survival, it’s kill or be killed. The players are dropped into the game with nothing more than a pistol. They will need to scavenge weapons and gear while hordes of Xenomorph aliens are trying to get at them. How long can you survive against the odds?

Here's a first impressions video, of a prototype edition, from last year's Gen Con (and GF9 were already talking about expansions!!!):

Actual Play: Home Sweet Home

Two rival families put their differences aside to build a future. But when disaster strikes how far will they go to protect what they have built, and how long will new-found loyalties last?

This three-and-a-half hour session of Alien RPG was the last session of CovidCon, Effekt podcast's mini online convention for patrons in the time of lockdown.

Dave runs “Home Sweet Home” the Con adventure he was writing for Free League’s presence at UK Games Expo and Gen Con. These events *may* still happen this year, so if you don’t want spoilers check out some of our other sessions.

HOPE'S LAST STAND (actual play podcast)

Previously known as The Coriolis Effect, Effekt is a fan podcast celebrating (mostly Swedish) roleplaying games, which now includes Free League's Alien RPG.

The episodes above are a three-part actual play of the game, involving the people who ran the official demos of the game at the recent UK Games Expo, followed by a discussion of how it went.

• Meanwhile, here's a write-up at AvP Galaxy from someone who played the scenario at UK Games Expo.