News Tagged: aliens

Watched Prometheus for the first time last night. Apart from absolutely superb directing, solid acting and brilliant cinematography, I can't say I've seen a lot to make me want to ever want to watch that movie again. The actors were great, but the characters themselves felt, weak and underwritten...

SEGA and Gearbox Software have sent the word that Aliens: Colonial Marines is going to be available for purchase worldwide on February 12, 2013 for PC, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PS3. They describe the game as "the authentic addition to the ALIENS franchise canon" with...

Exactly one year ago we've received the info that the well-known developer, Creative Assembly, started working on a new Alien game. Gearbox Software is, as you probably know, working on Aliens: Colonial Marines, which is slated for a Fall 2012 release...

And along comes the full Prometheus trailer:

Here we go again... the sound of motion trackers, dark corridors, cocooned victims, pulse rifles firing, locating the mother alien bitch who's laying all the eggs... Seriously, how many times will we have to do this? AT COMIC: A Fear That Gets Too Familiar

New Alien game? Oh you have to be... Never mind. Anyway, Sega officially confirmed that Creative Assembly, the dudes responsible for the Total War strategy series, are currently involved with a new game Alien game, which they are beefing up for a full triple-A style release (oh lovely, things don't get more original than that)...

Not too long ago, Developer Obsidian and publisher SEGA made a decision not to release Aliens RPG, a title that was in development for some time. The game was supposed to hit stores during 2009, but got canned in June that same year. Here's what Obsidian had to say when they canned the game: "...

"At this point, SEGA has no plans to move forward with the Aliens RPG. The Aliens franchise offers us so much content to choose from that we feel it important to take a step back and carefully consider the type of game we want to release...

If you land on an alien planet and everyone around you is an alien, wouldn't that make you the alien instead? Henceforth, any human landing on a planet that is not Earth will be landing on "their home planet." This is a huge blunder in the intergalactic terminology that should be added to the Hitchhiker's Guide.

Movies that have inspired practically every single popular shooter on the market now await a direct video game adaptation. The spirit of the Alien moveis, particularly James Cameroon's flick Aliens, can be felt in every other modern-day FPS. This time Sega and Gearbox Software are making Aliens: Colonial Marines...