Alien Hominid HD is developer The Behemoth’s way of “contributing to preserving games”
The devs wanted to ensure the run-and-gun remains accessible
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The classic run-and-gun gameAlien Hominidis set to get both a remaster and re-imagining on modern platforms later this year, and producer Ian Moreno tells TRG that game preservation was a “big aspect” of the decision to develop a remaster.
For those unfamiliar,Alien Hominidfirst released as anAdobeFlash game on the Newgrounds website in 2002, and later arrived on mobile, handhelds and consoles. However, at the time of writing, the only way to play it on a modern console is via Xbox 360 backwards compatibility onXbox Series X|S, meaning that the title has been getting increasingly harder to access.
“We wanted to bring it to younger generations, and make sure it’s accessible,” Moreno explains during our interview at WASD x IGN.
Speaking about preservation more generally, he continues: “Preservation is such a great thing that’s going on with like, the Internet Archive projects… With Flash support being taken away from web browsers, there’s a whole generation or batch of games out there that’s gonna disappear.”
With that in mind,Alien Hominid HD, which will bring the classic game to PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, andNintendo Switch, ensures that The Behemoth’s chaotic side-scrolling shooter is one that fans new and old will be able to easily get their hands on.
“With older consoles, they always eventually sunset,” Moreno says. “In short, this is part of our way of preserving and contributing to preserving games in general.”
Currently,Alien Hominid HDdoesn’t have a release date, but it’ll release at the same time asAlien Hominid Invasion- the aforementioned re-imagining which Moreno says answers the question, “What would a modern version ofAlien Hominidbe?”
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WhileInvasionis “not technically a sequel”, Moreno tells us that it does “give insight in terms of what happened where the last one ends”. He teases: “We’re also excited because there’s a ton of lore that we’re about to unleash on people, and I don’t know if they’re ready for it.”
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Catherine is a News Writer for TechRadar Gaming. Armed with a journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, she was sucked into the games media industry after spending far too much time on her university newspaper writing about Pokémon and cool indie games, and realising that was a very cool job, actually. She previously spent 19 months working at GAMINGbible as a full-time journalist. She loves all things Nintendo, and will never stop talking about Xenoblade Chronicles.
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