'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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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

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

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

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

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

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