Alien: Blackout Reveal can come at the awards ceremony

By Luke Reilly

A new trademark here on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (via Eurogamer) suggests that Fox's next Alien video game will be called Alien: Blackout.

The mark openly specifies video games as a classification and not as a film.

The emergence of the trademark filing coincides with a special exchange between Hideo Kojima and the official Twitter account of The Game Awards, following Kojima's visit to 20th Century Fox, where he posed with an egg and an Alien poster.

In early November, Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley published a Twitter image with a text plate that (almost) repeated the same sentence: the worlds will change.

Enthusiastic fans later pointed out that Keighley's retro image font was strikingly similar to that of the sinister Weyland-Yutani Corporation, the mega-corp of the infamous and reckless extraterrestrial universe. The slogan of Weyland-Yutani is "Building Better Worlds" and is traditionally part of its logo.

In January of this year, FoxNext Games announced the acquisition of Cold Iron Studios and confirmed that it will develop a new game of shooting on console and PC based on the Alien film world. The January announcement mentioned an "action-packed, persistent world", but beyond that, there is still no real information on what kind of experience the Cold Iron Studios Alien game will be. It is possible Alien: Blackout is the game of Cold Iron Studios, although it is also possible that it is an independent project.

The awards ceremony will take place on December 6th at 8:30 pm ET / 5:30 pm ET (December 7th at 1:30 am GMT / 12:30 pm EDT). Prepare your nuclear weapons, knives and pointed sticks.

Luke is a game publisher at the IGN office in Sydney. You can find it on Twitter every two or three days @ MrLukeReilly.