FoxNext Games have announced today that a new shooter game set in the Alien universe is in the works for PC and consoles! FoxNext themselves were formed only last year. You might be familiar with them – they were already making various virtual reality games.
We reported last year that they were supposed to be making a multiplayer Alien virtual reality game, possibly for theme parks. Today, FoxNext have announced they have acquired Cold Iron Studios from games publisher Perfect World Entertainment who have experience in making online multiplayer games.
Games president of FoxNext Games, Aaron Loeb said: “I am a personal fan of Cold Iron’s previous work, and all of us at FoxNext Games are thrilled to be working with them as they create an action-packed persistent world, steeped in the mysteries of this beloved ‘Alien’ universe,”
Cold Iron Studios CEO Craig Zinkievich Zinkievich added: “Our background in building online worlds and taking established franchises to the next level in interactive entertainment is a precise fit with [FoxNext’s] product road map ahead.”
Cold Iron Studios is developing a new Alien game!
Cold Iron Studios was founded in 2015 by CEO Craig Zinkievich, CTO Shannon Posniewski, and creative director Matt Highison, and its 25 employees are all joining FoxNext Games. Members of their development team have worked on many past titles including Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Metroid Prime 3, Bioshock Infinite, Doom and Borderlands. No other details were released about the new Alien game but it’s pretty much assumed that it will be an online multiplayer shooter given the developer’s background.
What is also striking this time, is that the games in the series have finally moved away from publisher Sega who had an exclusive license to publish and develop them since 2006. We last got the superb survival-horror game Alien Isolation back in 2014, before that the ill-fated Aliens: Colonial Marines in 2013 and Aliens vs. Predator in 2010. We could be many years away from this title though but at least something is finally happening on the game’s front after all these years of waiting.
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City blackout?
A term for losing contact with a colony or space station/other habitat?
Fixing the naming convention?
When in the timeline will it take place I ponder.
https://wccftech.com/alien-blackout-trademarked-fox/
AVP 2010's mediocre, there's nothing special about it.
Monolith's AVP is what they should have built off, but they didn't.
But it's serviceable and inoffensive.
https://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Aliens:_Colonial_Marines_goofs
The whole game's a Goof.
Controlling androids to go right past Xenos would be a cool feature. Not just giving orders, but pressing a key or button to take manual control.
The next one should be "Bishop should go" if the action is repeated or if you force an android NPC to do something
The achievement for not facing Xenos should be called, "With those things running around?! You can count me out!"
Praise Al Hope.
Maybe have a bit more in the way of a city builder, managing a colony or a hive, battling it out for dominance of a map.
Barring that, I wish they'd just bring Extinction to PC with a proper skirmish mode and online multiplayer. T_T
As for an Aliens FPS, atmosphere and story will be key. I liked the toughness of the Warriors in AVP2010, at least on the difficulty mode I played on. I don't think the Xenos should go down easily unless you have a really powerful gun. Forcing the player to think about whether facing off against the Xenos is a wise option would be nice.
No one truly knows until the purchase goes through in January.
For now everything is business as usual.
Setting in a large colony with urban elements would be awesome. If we can explore the map, that'd be even better.
That's not a bad shout to be honest. I do expect those kind of elements from the persistent online world comments. Division was another one I couldn't really get in to. I can't really get into those kind of games. I'd certainly give it a shot if that's where they're going with this, though.
It has some very lite MMO features but its mainly a shooter with some RPG elements.
I don't think we'll be getting a tactical game as much as we all want it. But then again, they let Alien: Isolation be more of a hardcore SH than a typical horror shooter.
I despise modern MMOs.
Single Player/Multiplayer Dead Space esque; Horror Pithee.
Shit... just place a ALIENS skin over The Division and you'd have a pretty fun game.
Instead of New York City being hit by a super virus and criminals running rampant while having to fight a mercenary force it would be Colonial Marines or some other military force in the ALIENS universe being sent in to to deal with a Colony that has gone silent. Personally I'd like it to not even be a Colony but a full on established city on some planet.
Throw in some of Alien: Isolation's great horror aspects and tone down the Division RPG elements somewhat. Keep it open world but always dark, maybe even take some Dying Light elements where you get day light every now and then and thats when its safest. You can come across survivors and its really in your interest to save survivors or else they could be used as hosts.
Have a gloomy opening telling us that the Colony/City has a population of a million or something, just massive number so we know that shit has gone south.
Whatever they do I think they need to separate themselves from the canon restrictions of the movies or set it after ALIEN3 or after A:R.
Quality...
Who knows?
Isolation's Creative Assembly's first, FP-SH.
That's fair enough and I wouldn't argue with that. I'd just like to see them do a squad based thing and it actually be good!
If they can combine those two elements, that'd be great, but I imagine that's too much to ask, and way too expensive to make.
Yes, there are other Aliens shooters. And that's the point. Lets say, for the sake of argument, they make something close to the quality of say, Doom 16.
I still wouldn't find it interesting, because to me, it's a massively outdated concept. Go from point A to point B, shoot some Xenos and huggers, maybe some humans, fight a Queen, the end. We've had ACM, Trilogy, Res and three AvP games with pretty much the same concept already.
I would have loved to see them try something like Aliens: Crucible, or perhaps even an infestation simulator combining elements of AvP Extinction's Alien campaign with world building elements.
I suppose those would be risky ventures though.
Wouldn't be surprised if Huggs' prediction turns out to be correct.
There are other Alien shooters than just ACM. ACM was just supposed to be the pinnacle. Personally, I'd like to see them do an ACM that is actually good.
But I do worry it's going to be some sort of Destiny/Borderlands type of thing. I tried D2 but it didn't seem to have enough story and I got bored of it pretty quickly.
SEGA = unrealistic expectations.
Alien Isolation (Stealth Survival Horror) ≠ COD numbers.
Do the sales bear that out? Looking on VGChartz, Isolation sold roughly the same number of copies as AvP2010 and significantly more than Colonial Marines. VGChartz doesn't include Steam sales, but SteamDB lists Isolation's peak players as more than double that of AvP's. I can't find figures for the older games, but it looks like Isolation may be the highest-grossing Alien game of all time, or tied for that honour with AvP2010.
Hey, maybe we'll get better movie skins. The A:CM ones aren't overly terrible, but Hudson looks like he started retaining water.
It's likely some online monstrosity. No story, no campaign, and the servers will be shut down in a few years. Why bother making it? Beats me.
Remaking A:CM so it doesn't suck? We should be so lucky.
So basically they're going to remake ACM but have it so that it isn't garbage...
Ok.
I like it. It sounds like "The God Job".
https://virtumente.com/job/senior-world-builder-cold-iron-studios/
Well like it or not that is what Aliens is associated with. Comparing sales of Alien Isolation vs action oriented games definitely attests to this. Unfortunately it looks like this game is on permanent hold along with hope for the franchise.
They're still hiring for the game.