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Jul 23, 2008

Aliens Game Being Written By Battlestar Galactica Team

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"This is no joke," said Gearbox president Randy Pitchford, and I had to agree. The more we hear about Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC, 360, PS3), the more exciting it sounds for fans of the original films.

Gearbox seems dedicated to staying faithful to the source material, and smartly expanding on it with a solid creative team. Four player co-op doesn't hurt, either.

During the interview, Pitchford explained the lengths that his company went to in order to make their game feel like an authentic piece of the Aliens franchise.

Randy Pitchford: One thing that's cool is some of the people we've been able to work with to help us [on Aliens]. The guys that write the Battlestar Galactica series, Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, they wrote our script. They're amazing guys. They gave us a lot, too. We could make a whole season of TV with the stuff they gave us. [laughs] We profited from the writer's strike, let's just put it that way. We talked with a lot of people, but those guys are so good.
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Jul 19, 2008

Aliens E3 No-Show: Randy Pitchford Explains

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Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software, has explained why upcoming FPS Aliens: Colonial Marines wasn't shown at E3 this week, saying it was publisher SEGA's decision and had nothing to do with the current quality of the game.
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Jun 6, 2008

Sega Confirms Sonic Unleashed for November, Aliens Delayed

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Sega has unveiled their upcoming line-up through the first quarter of 2009.

The biggest thing to mention here is a release date for Sonic the Hedgehog's next grand adventure, Sonic Unleashed. It'll be shipped to stores this November on the PS3, 360, Wii and PS2. Sonic Chronicles, the DS-only RPG being developed at BioWare, will arrive two months earlier in September.

Other big names include Golden Axe Riders for the PS3/360 and a follow-up to 2005's Yakuza for the PS2, both due in September. Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines, a game we've seen nothing of since its announcement in February, will be out in the first quarter of next year.
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Jun 6, 2008

Sonic Unleashed for November, Aliens slips to '09

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Sega has unveiled a whole bunch of release dates for its upcoming line-up, including Sonic Unleashed, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Space Siege.The, dare we say, promising-looking Sonic Unleashed has been given a strong November date, while Aliens FPS Colonial Marines has unfortunately slipped into 2009. Golden Axe: Beast Rider, if anyone cares, hits shelves in September.Chris Taylor's Space Siege has also been branded with a ... » Read More

Jun 6, 2008

SEGA's Aliens slips into 2009

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SEGA has today issued an updated release schedule which includes confirmation of the delayed release of two of its biggest titles for 2008. Both Aliens: Colonial Marines and Empire: Total War are now scheduled for release in Q1 2009.

Other titles of note on the release schedule include Golden Axe Riders for PS3 and Xbox 360 in September and Sonic Unleashed in November. Q1 2009 is looking very strong for SEGA, with Aliens and Empire: Total War joining Alpha Protocol and Madworld.
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Mar 16, 2008

Next-gen 'Aliens' game looking bloody brilliant

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'Aliens : Colonial Marines' is coming to the next-gen platforms, but it's going to be a bit of a fair old wait until it's 2009 release. Plenty of time then for us to salivate over every little piece of information and drool over some rather glossy looking screenshots.

Developed by FPS veterans Gearbox Studios, and published by SEGA - 'Aliens : Colonial Marines' is built on the almost industry standard Unreal Engine 3. This of course means it's all looking rather lovely so far, but then again - so did Turok and look what happened there!
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Mar 11, 2008

Aliens: Colonial Marines gameplay info

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22 years seems like a long time to wait for a movie tie-in. But, then, not every movie is the genre-busting horrorfest Aliens, James Cameron's all-action sci-fi sequel to Ridley Scott's similarly brilliant Alien. If Aliens: Colonial Marines is even half as thrilling an experience, the double decade wait will have been worth it. ... » Read More

Mar 6, 2008

First proper Aliens screens emerge

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Here are the first screenshots of Sega's awesome-looking Aliens: Colonial Marines. No dirty scans here.If this is what the game will look like when you're actually playing, it's going to be gal durned impressive.The Aliens look awesome, with that Doom III-like slimy sheen, and in one screen you can see the player using a motion tracker while two other marines search the dark, moody corridors ahead with their flashlights. It looks tense.You also ... » Read More

Mar 2, 2008

Iron Man, Hulk, Alien games power Sega's reinvention

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It's no mean feat powering up from being video game publisher No. 14 in 2004 to becoming the industry's sixth largest third-party publisher today. But Sega of America is tasting that success. Industry analysts credit its president and COO since 2005, Simon Jeffery, as the force behind the company's struggle to reinvent itself.

In fact, come May 2, when the Marvel Enterprises-produced "Iron Man" blasts into movie theaters, Sega is counting on the day-and-date release of its video game version to inject even more life into what was once a very anemic portfolio.

"Historically, Sega hasn't been part of the license business," explains Jeffery. "But we felt that in order to gain market momentum, we absolutely needed to have big game-appropriate movie licenses under our belt."
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Feb 21, 2008

SEGA Details 'Aliens' Game

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G4: This morning, Sega revealed many intriquing details about their upcoming squad-based FPS based on the Aliens movie series.
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Feb 21, 2008

First Aliens: Colonial Marines info

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Sega has confirmed that Aliens: Colonial Marines will arrive on 360, PS3 and PC in late 2008. The story has been penned by "renowned writers" Bradley Thompson and David Weddle. The game will retain the atmospheric look and feel of the original films as well as the plot element of Marines taking on the aliens. There'll be a story driven single-player mode and a four player co-op mode. In this mode each player assumes the persona of a Colonial ... » Read More

Feb 20, 2008

First Aliens images arise

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This game needs to be awesome. It really does. And by the looks of the first images, Gearbox Software is going the right way about it.Marines can be seen blasting at aliens and Facehuggers with meaty machine guns in dark, moody corridors. Now, we'll admit that the scans look so good that we wouldn't be surprised if they're actually cheeky renders. But if this is the art direction Gearbox is going for, then we're happy regardless. Take a look at ... » Read More

Feb 14, 2008

Gearbox's Aliens, Red Faction 3 info

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The first solid details (well, the names anyway) on Red Faction 3 and Gearbox's Aliens game have appeared in the latest issue of US magazine, Game Informer."Gearbox's Aliens game" will now be known as "Aliens: Colonial Marines," while Red Faction III adopts the catchier title of "Red Faction: Guerilla."Seeming as no one's got their hands on the mag yet (we've only got a cover picture), actual game details are still forthcoming.Not ... » Read More

Jun 4, 2007

Gearbox breaks silence on Alien FPS

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Gearbox Software has broken silence on its Alien first-person shooter it's working on for Sega. Speaking to Gamereactor briefly about the game recently, the developer's big cheese Randy Pitchford revealed that players will strap on the boots of a Colonial Marine, with the storyline playing out from the Colonial Marines' perspective. That's all the beans that have been spilled for now, but Sega has said previously of the Alien FPS that it "will retain the atmospheric look and feel of the ... » Read More

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