SEGA and Monolith Productions have this week announced the UK release dates for their upcoming blockbuster video games Alien: Isolation and Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor respectively. The former is an inbetween-quel (for want of a better industrial term) which bridges the gap between Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien and James Cameron's 1986 not-so-classic Aliens, while the latter inhabits J.R.R. Tolkien's iconic The Lord of the Rings universe and elaborates upon the events that occurred in the sixty-year period separating The Hobbit and Frodo's quest to destroy the One Ring.
If nothing else, these two successive announcements prove that October is going to be a jam-packed month for the video gaming industry. Though Rocksteady have yet to put a date on their much-anticipated trilogy finale Batman: Arkham Knight, recently leaked promotional materials have revealed that it's pretty much guaranteed to ship in the tenth month of 2014, and it's not unheard of for Ubisoft to send their latest Assassin's Creed instalment(s) to retailers worldwide at the same time either. Thankfully, more than one of the scheduled releases will probably budge to November or a Spring 2015 release in the end, so there isn't too much to worry about on this front, but make no mistake, if a developer plans to ship a video game in six months' time, they'd best be damn certain that it'll reach its targets, or they'll soon live to regret their mistake.
Alien: Isolation bursts out of retailers' chests for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC this October 7th and Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor wages war on precisely the same consoles on (you guessed it)...October 7th.
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