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The online shooter is a popular but merciless genre – you could say it’s its own battle royale, with only a few left standing after any length of time. Any developer trying to launch one has got its work cut out for it simply to avoid having to close its servers after a year or less. But if any studio can offer something fresh, it’s Creative Assembly, which gave us the terrifying Alien: Isolation.

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