Sega has just announced that Aliens Colonial Marines will be making an appearance at PAX this year (August 26th – 28th). While the announcement states that the game will be playable at the show, we can exclusively confirm that this is sadly a typo. According to Gearbox, attendees will be able to check out the game at the Sega booth (#3625 ), but they won’t be able to go hands-on with it.
In addition to this, Gearbox Software will be hosting a panel at PAX Prime on Sunday, August 28th from 3:00pm to 4:00pm (Pegasus Theatre).
Finally, you can now VOTE for Colonial Marines as your most anticipated game of 2012 at the Golden Joystic Awards. Make sure to vote now!
Update: Sega’s announcement has been now corrected.
When asked for comment on whether or not cameras will be allowed at the Sega booth, Sega told us: "There will be no need for cameras.
Who knows. All I can guess is that they think the game is currently too rough to show to a mass audience. PAX may be public, but it is still filtered.
I remember when we'd kill and be happy with just a screenshot or even a tweet.
So between Pax and Gamescon we MAY only get assets....
Ergh...
Have you ever seen Men In Black. The speech that Agent K gave J. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
The build that Gearbox currently has is probably rather rough. Its an early example of gameplay. That fact is easy to explain to a few people in a small area, but even if you have it plastered at the beginning of the footage before releasing it to the masses, people will still point out all the flaws and immediately come to the conclusion that the final product will be bad.
It sucks for the fans and the people who can't attend the expo, but in the end its Sega protecting the image of the game. Many companies do this. In fact if I remember correctly most of the games at PAX were sort of hidden away. Mystery is sometimes more intriguing too I guess.
I'm with you on that. I don't understand the point of them if they don't show anything. Only thing I can think of is they want to tease the public by only showing it to a small handful of people (some of which would report about it on the net), which would generate curiosity about the game until an actual demo or even the full game finally came out. A pretty cruel method though.
They might as well build a wall around the booth and say "No one is allowed to see whats on these screens.... no one!"
But really, I have no idea what these expos are.
It isn't odd. I remember at PAX east they had the Darkness II as a playable demo, but you were forbidden to record footage of what you played.
They'll probably have the same setup they had at E3 and Gearbox community day.
If that's the case, can't someone make a pen camera, or something? Maybe rig up a little camera in a shirt button. Go in undercover.
They're showing it at Pax Prime to ANYONE attending.... And sure you can't play it. You can never play a game the first time its publicly shown.
This doesn't fall under "oh yeah let's build hype by not showing anything" or "the game is in beta stage so it's not ready" no no, this falls under baby bullsh-t and there for I can only assume SEGA/GearBox is hiding a bad game and don't feel confident enough to show it to the masses
I think yes, hope I'm wrong though.
Attendees will be able to check out the game at the Sega booth but they won't be able to go hands-on with it. Hopefully the original announcement will be fixed shortly.
http://forums.sega.com/showthread.php?376134-SEGA-Announces-Lineup-for-PAX-Prime-2011!
Now this is not what was mentioned to us a few days back by official sources so I'm going to re-confirm just in case. I'd hate it to be a typo...