There's a couple of stories circulating today on Kotaku and ShackNews that Gearbox / Sega was going to drop Aliens: Colonial Marines altogether. Apparently, Gearbox let go of a large number of employees today because Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway hadn't sold well. Kotaku also mentions that Sega may have cut the funding on Colonial Marines ... [Read More]
This isn't much but Obsidian is advertising the position of Senior Engine Programmer for their upcoming Aliens RPG project and they've released these little details regarding the game:
"3rd Person, GAME ENGINE, R&D / New Technology, RPG, Sci-Fi, Squad Based"
For the more educated, the page also talks more about the language the game will be using but for us, its the ... [Read More]
Gamespot have given a few details away about the forthcoming Aliens FPS, developed by Gearbox:
"Development for the project is apparently well under way. "We're working really hard on that right now," said Pitchford> ... The executive also revealed some tidbits about the plot of the Aliens game, which is due on "next-gen platforms" in 2009. "Our game's about becoming ... [Read More]
Obsidian developer, J.E. Sawyer, has been talking with fans over at the Obsidian forum. There he's been releasing little tidbits of information:
"One thing that I want to state is that while this game needs to have things that make it recognizably an RPG, I think there are some RPG conventions that would feel/seem really corny in the relatively realistic Alien ... [Read More]
Alien RPG developers, Obsidian, recently took a trip to ADI studios. They didn't specifically state what they went for but the chances are they went to get some inspiration for their upcoming game:
"Yesterday Trent Campbell and I went to visit ADI, a visual effects studio that was heavily involved with the production of Alien3, Alien: Resurrection, and AvP. We snapped ... [Read More]
Sega has officially confirmed that Obsidian will be making an Alien role-playing game for next generation consoles and PC. Here's part of the press release:
"SEGA® of America Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced that Obsidian Entertainment will create a role-playing game based on the Alien film franchise with license from Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising. This ... [Read More]
Earlier, Sega officially confirmed that they had acquired the license to do two new Aliens games for the Next-Gen consoles. They have since released the teaser site for the games. On the initial launch Gearbox and Obsidian were both featured at the bottom of the page.
While they have both been taken down now, it is reasonable ... [Read More]