You’re free to use the sounds for whatever purpose you wish – as long it doesn’t involve porn or tobacco Credit: BBC, Metro.co.uk It sounds like one of the best jobs in the world. Deep in the bowels ...

Even if you just hear a science fiction movie or TV show playing in another room, you’ll instantly recognize it thanks to the weird sounds of alien spaceships and laser weapons. No genre of ...

British video game developer The Creative Assembly uses sound effects and music to keep players in a permanently tense state when exploring its video game Alien: Isolation. The title is a spin-off ...

Despite advances in computer-generated image technology, most sound effects for films and virtual reality experiences are still recorded manually. Doug James, associate professor of computer science ...

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is so advanced today that it can be difficult to distinguish from reality. But the creation of the sounds that accompany the images are still largely the work of ...

"In space," some marketing genius once said, "no one can hear you scream". Bring the Xenomorph and its associated ecosystem back home, however — as "Alien: Earth" so memorably has — and you hear ...