If the recent doll heads weren’t enough to convince you of a Colonial Marines connection, how about this beasty?

This over-sized pulse rifle inspired Nerf gun was sent to Official PlayStation Magazine – Australia by Sega. Thanks to Ikarop for the link.

AvP Galaxy staffer, Ikarop, recently discovered via the Worldwide Production Agency that Neville Page will be doing concept art and costume design for Prometheus.

Page has worked on more than a few big projects over the past years including Cloverfield, Star Trek, Tron: Legacy and Avatar to name a few. Page is also working on the upcoming creature-feature Super 8. You can find Neville Page’s résumé here which confirms his involvement with Prometheus.

A number of body-less doll heads have found their way into the mail in-tray of several video game websites. What’s weird is that these heads are inscribed with the name Rebecca. Remind you of anyone?

And the return address is to a certain Ms Rebecca Jorden, Newt’s full name. Could this be some sort of viral marketing for Aliens, perhaps for Colonial Marines? Kotaku even state they have “plans to see it at E3 in two weeks“. Now it’s not confirmed but we have also heard whispers of a playable demo of CM at E3. X-Box World seems to think so too:

“We know it’s not an unannounced title which we’ll be going hands-on with, and our highly-honed detective skills (thanks, LA Noire) suggests that it simply has to be Colonial Marines.”

Thanks to Ikarop for the news.

You may remember exactly two years ago today, a mystery video appeared on Youtube showing gameplay footage from a Nintendo DS game called Aliens Colonial Marines. It was being developed by Way Forward in association with Gearbox. It had presumably been cancelled by Sega however as of yesterday, Sega had the game classified in Australia suggesting it will be released afterall. The game is called Aliens Infestation and was rated M for mature.

ALIENS INFESTATION

Classification: M
Consumer Advice: Science fiction violence
Category: Computer Games
Version: ORIGINAL
Duration: Variable
Date of Classification: 25/05/2011
Author: WAY FORWARD TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Publisher: SEGA
Production Company: NOT SHOWN
Country of Origin: USA
Applicant: SEGA AUSTRALIA
File Number: T11/1953
Classification Number: 247307

The classification page shows the game as multi-platform but it’s safe to say it will be released for Nintendo DS. When contacted by us, WayForward only confirmed the game’s existence. Thanks to ikarop for the news.

The cast of Prometheus seems to just keep getting bigger. Alien Prequel News recently noticed this tweet from Payton:

“Back to the spaceship after my stay of execution yesterday. Pinewood, here I come. *yawn*”

That said, if he is indeed in Prometheus, it’s unknown what character he will play.

You’ll have to forgive me, I’d forgotten to post this one up. The guys behind the upcoming British Alien fanfilm, Aliens Epilogue, released a new trailer a month and a bit back. You can find out more at their website and their Facebook page. You can also find out more about the project in our next podcast episode later this week.

Aliens Epilogue Trailer from Darren Kemp on Vimeo.

In an interview with Eurogamer, SEGA West CEO Mike Hayes said that they are not currently considering a sequel to Aliens vs. Predator.

“[AVP] was so successful that naturally you would think you want to do a sequel,” Hayes reasoned. “But we already had Aliens: Colonial Marines in the pipeline at Gearbox.” “The Aliens universe is so interesting that there are different things that we can do before we go back to an idea of sequelisation,” Hayes added. “There’s a lot more we can do first before we would consider doing a sequel on AVP.”

Rebellion expressed interest in doing a sequel after the game had been released but of course, Sega then dropped support for the game only a few months after its release.

Creative Assembly studio director, Tim Heaton, recently told Eurogamer.net that the just announced Alien ‘action’ title and movie are unlikely to be linked. The studio director says:

“What we can say is that we understand that games that are time-constrained to be day-and-date with the movie are often flawed so it’s probably something that we wouldn’t really want to be tied to.”

The game was announced at a press event held in the UK as part of an industry gathering with the Minister for Culture, Ed Vaizey. But it’s likely to be a long way off until we hear much more about it.

In what has to be the meatiest article so far, VG24/7 has posted a nicely detailed report on the conference where the game was announced earlier today:

“One of our big questions marks was that we didn’t want to just make a game out of a film license – you know, just deliver the film and that’s about it. We’re aiming for the Red Dead Redemptions, the Arkham Asylums; that’s absolutely where we want to be. We want to make a 90 percent game that’s easily communicable to people simply because it’s in that Alien world.”

And there’s loads more. Make sure you read it all.

Gaming website, Rock Paper Shotgun, has posted up a few minor details about the upcoming Creative Assembly game:

“What we do know that it’s described only as an ‘action’ game and will be tackled primarily by the team who made Viking: Battle for Asgard on the console toys. However, CA are staffing up hugely to tackle this game. They’re increasing their UK headcount to 200, and picking up a new 10,000 sq ft studio for the purposes of this. If you’re a UK dev looking for work, you might want to take a peek at their job listings later today.

So, that’s that for now – it may be some time until we hear much more about the game, apparently. But we can take two things from the table today: a) it’s Alien, not Aliens, and apparently won’t be just another space mariney shooter.”

Sounds like this one is going to be interesting. Watch this space for more.