Funfact: Before BKP shut down we were in talks to do a new game in the Aliens franchise with Fox.
Then Disney bought them and that got lost in the shuffle, darnit.
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Ripley would be alive and be your "Cortana/Anya." You'd play as grown Newt. On Earth. Weyland-Yutani are weaponizing the aliens in a Black Mesa style facility and, of course, all hell breaks loose.
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Your robotic pal i.e. Bishop? A new one named "Casey" after her doll in Aliens.
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(FPS, obviously.)
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I always said I'd never want to work on someone else's IP. Only exceptions for me personally? Aliens and Transformers.
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(Erase ALL canon after Aliens, BTW.)