Collider recently did an interview with John Davis (Producer of every Predator movie). He basically says that they need to rest the Predator franchise for a few years and then maybe see if they can re-invent it again. He also reveals that the reason Arnie didn't want to do Predator 2 was because he wanted $250,000 more than ... [Read More]
I just received a message from Darren Kemp, the man behind the upcoming Aliens Epilogue and he's recruiting CG animators:
"More talent required for Aliens Epilogue production. We are looking for people to light and animate models that have already been made by Andrew Glazebrook and SanchiEsp for the production. You can see the models in the CGI ... [Read More]
Today Sega and Gearbox have officially confirmed that Aliens: Colonial Marines will finally be making its way into E3. We can now reveal that a display, based on the iconic Hadley’s Hope colony, has been made for the event.
"The guys worked really hard on making it feel very authentic from the universe" Gearbox told us.
Visitors will be lead inside of ... [Read More]
Sega and Gearbox Software have just announced that the much awaited title, Aliens: Colonial Marines, will be coming in the Spring of 2012. The game has also been confirmed to be at E3 next week. Check the full announcement, teaser video, promotional screenshot and official site for the game below.
Official Site: http://www.sega.com/armat/
Promotional site: ...[Read More]
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. [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
The cast of Prometheus seems to just keep getting bigger. Alien Prequel News recently noticed this tweet from Payton:
"Back to the spaceship ... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]
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 ... [Read More]