Commodore International Corporation announced Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection on 24 August 2026, at Pixel Arcadia, the first retro showcase Pixel Helix ran from London. The PR Newswire, datelined Dover, Delaware, the same day, called it Commodore’s first publishing job since the brand came back in 2025. Six Amiga games. Antstream Arcade builds it. Team17 licenses it. 24 September 2026 on Steam, GOG, Epic Games Store, PlayStation and Xbox. Nintendo Switch is later in 2026. Commodore’s own page says Fall.

This is not a new Alien Breed. This is the 1991–1996 run, on modern machines, as a download you own. Gematsu filed it at 3:10 p.m. Eastern on 24 August. GamesRadar’s Phil Hayton filed the same date. GenerationAmiga followed on 25 August. Steam’s app is 4870460. Street date on that page is 24 September 2026. No price sat on the Steam page, the Commodore page, or the Dover wire. There is no price on the record.

The six titles, as the 24 August wire listed them: Alien Breed, 1991. Alien Breed: Special Edition, 1992. Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues, 1993, with the ECS and AGA versions both in the carton. Alien Breed: Tower Assault, 1994, Amiga and CD32 versions both in. Alien Breed 3D, 1995, the CD32 version. Alien Breed 3D II: TKG, 1996. GenerationAmiga spelled the last one The Killing Grounds, which is the same 1996 game. The later Alien Breed games, including the 2010 Descent, are not in this bundle. The press is specific: six games, one period, the jump from top-down corridors to first-person 3D.

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Peri Fractic, President and CEO and Chief Product Officer, is the quote on the wire. Christian Simpson is the same person; GamesRadar used the civilian name and the Peri handle together. His 24 August line: “When I was 8, I persuaded my parents to let me watch a certain Ridley Scott movie. For the first time, they said yes. I had nightmares for two years afterwards. A few years later, it was payback time! Alien Breed is the reason a lot of us stayed up way too late as kids, creeping through those corridors with the motion tracker beeping and no idea what was waiting around the corner.” The second sentence on the same wire: “Team17 built something that still holds up without any nostalgia required, and bringing all six games together in one place, running the way they were meant to run, felt like exactly the right project to launch Commodore back into publishing.”

Steve Cottam, CEO of Antstream Arcade, is the other named quote. “As a British game studio, we are immensely proud to be working on a legendary gaming legacy from such an important British publisher.” Then: “At Antstream, we believe it is absolutely vital to preserve games for future generations, and this collection honors that mission while opening it up to a new generation of gamers.” The wire is careful about what Antstream is here. Antstream Arcade is a streaming service. This collection is not that service. It does not need an internet connection to play. GamesRadar printed that as a parenthetical so a reader would not confuse a preservation port with a subscription cabinet. Download-to-own is the Dover phrase.

Jim Squires, Commodore’s chief strategy officer, sat with GamesBeat on 24 August. “You’re not going to see 10 titles a year from us; that’s not the goal here. We are waiting for the right opportunities, when we see what we can do and understand the greater purpose it serves.” Then: “And it doesn’t necessarily have to be that we’re going to sell a million copies — which I know is what everyone wants with one of these — but the reality is that game preservation is incredibly important.” A later line in the same interview: “It’s about bringing these games to a new audience, because if these things are now on modern platforms, there’s going to be exposure, one way or another.” Those are strategy sentences. They are not a review of the 1991 ROM.

Pixel Arcadia aired on 24 August 2026. Pixel Helix, a London marketing shop that works retro, put more than fifty publishers and developers on the tape. Eight world premieres. Terranigma was one. Blaster Bug was one. Alien Breed 35th Anniversary was the Commodore premiere. The Games Press recap from that night called it “the first new retro release to come to market through Commodore’s resurrection.” GamesBeat added the booth work: a playable arcade cabinet at Commodore’s gamescom stand later that week, and a launch-day Twitch from Thomas Middleditch, the actor who is also Commodore’s chief creative officer. The cabinet is promotion. 24 September is the street date.

Commodore’s product page is the primary list of what the software actually does. Modern dual-stick controls. A new Horde Mode. Online co-op in Rush Mode. Save states. Screen filters. Rumble. A Virtual Museum with original physical media, marketing assets, soundtracks, developer interviews, and the cancelled projects that never shipped, including Alien Breed for the PSP and the Alien Breed RTS, with design documents and concept art. Allister Brimble’s audio is named on that page as the original mood: machinery hums, weapon fire, and the mutated kitten samples used for alien screams. The 1991 game, Commodore wrote, had no soundtrack to hide behind. The page is selling atmosphere, not a new campaign.

Steam’s store copy, which Gematsu reprinted on 24 August, breaks the same kit into shop language. The Vault is an in-universe archive: concept art, original retail launches, a Timeline of exclusive developer interviews and retrospective videos. Twin-stick support for both the 2D and 3D titles. Mouse and keyboard for the 3D games. Improved frame rates on the first-person pair. Tactical save states with multiple slots. Global customisation for visuals, audio and gameplay. A 4:3 or 16:9 toggle. CRT Experience filters named Scanlines, CRT TV, and Mega CRT. Optional screen bezels. Couch co-op kept as the originals had it. Rush Mode is peer-to-peer online co-op with no saves and no continues, solo or as a team, across supported platforms. Horde Mode is the new solo survival wave. Those are the published verbs. A patch list beyond that is not on the page.

GenerationAmiga, 25 August, walked the five-year change inside the six SKUs. 1991 is the top-down station: keys, ammunition, credits, terminals, two-player local co-op, corridors that do not forgive a lost map. Special Edition ’92 added levels to that structure. 1993’s The Horror Continues pushed larger stages and four playable characters, and the anniversary carton keeps both the ECS and AGA builds. 1994’s Tower Assault opened the route: non-linear levels, multiple escape paths, Amiga and CD32 both included. 1995’s Alien Breed 3D put the camera behind the visor on more powerful Amiga hardware. 1996’s The Killing Grounds asked even more of the machine and was one of Team17’s last major Amiga releases. Five years. Six disks. One download in 2026.

The Switch date is the only geography that disagrees in the first day’s copy. GamesRadar put Switch on 24 September with the rest. The Dover wire, Commodore.net, Thurrott, and GenerationAmiga all put PlayStation, Xbox and PC on 24 September and Switch later in 2026. Commodore’s own sentence is Fall 2026 for Nintendo Switch. The publisher page is the one used here, not the first-day recap that collapsed the platforms. Thurrott also wrote Switch 2. Commodore wrote Nintendo Switch. The carton is Switch, later. The 24 September machines are Steam, GOG, Epic, PlayStation and Xbox.

Steam lists Windows 10 as the floor, DirectX 12, 9 GB of disk, an Intel Core i3-4100 or AMD A8-6600K and a GTX 960 or Radeon R9 380 at minimum. Recommended is an i3-10100 or Ryzen 3 4300G, 16 GB of RAM, a GTX 1050 or RX 560, and broadband if you want the online modes. Languages on the store: English with full audio, then French, Italian, German and Spanish for interface and subtitles. ESRB on the Steam file is Blood and Violence, with a note that the game includes interactive elements and online interactivity. None of that is a score. It is the store card.

The company putting its name on the spine is the 2025 Commodore, not the 1994 liquidation. The Dover boilerplate: Commodore International Corporation is the official steward of the original brand, founded in 1958 by Jack Tramiel, refreshed in 2025, with Leonard Tramiel among the advisors. Public Benefit Corporation is the legal line Commodore used on the product page for why a hardware shop is publishing a 1991 shooter. The same page is honest about the machine this software will not run on. The collection is not compatible with current or historical Commodore computers. “This is but a first step,” the footnote says, “for us in making classic Commodore titles more accessible to modern audiences.” The next release, they wrote, will “strafe back to retro again.” No title, no date, for that next one.

Official tape is on YouTube, from the Official Commodore® channel, titled Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection Release Trailer, id -yBRisaYAKg. Gematsu embedded it as the announce trailer on 24 August. The channel is the publisher’s. That is the only clip this page is carrying. No recap channel. No let’s-play. The trailer is the 24 August object.

What is not on the record as of Sunday 30 August: a dollar price, a physical SKU, a day-inside-Fall for Switch, a list of which of the six titles get online co-op beyond “supporting titles,” or a statement that the 2010 games will follow. GamesRadar noted that the MS-DOS versions already live on GOG; this carton is the Amiga-era six, not those DOS ports. This is a publishing debut, not a review. Commodore put a Team17 licence on five current storefronts, named 24 September, and left Switch for autumn. Six disks leave the Amiga. They do not go back into an A1200. They go into a 2026 download.

24 August was the showcase. 25 August was GenerationAmiga’s recap. gamescom that week was the cabinet. 24 September is the PC and current-gen street date. Fall is Switch. 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 are the years inside. Dual-stick, save states, CRT filters, rumble, Rush, Horde, The Vault, a cancelled PSP, a cancelled RTS, Brimble’s screams, Cottam’s preservation sentence, Fractic’s Ridley Scott night, Squires’ refusal to promise ten SKUs a year. That is the table. The collection is not out yet. The announcement is six days old. The date on the Steam page has not moved.