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This Aliens Game Lets You Perform Bishop’s Badass Knife Trick

Aliens Infestation, for the Nintendo DS, was already looking like one of the last interesting games for the handheld, since it brings back fond memories of Konami’s excellent side-scrolling Aliens arcade game of 1990.


September 24, 2011
News

We May Never Play The Aliens RPG, But We Can Look At Concept Art

There once was a time Obsidian was making an RPG based on the Aliens universe. That game has since been cancelled, but today we’re looking at some art done for the project by Charles Lee.


September 7, 2011
Nintendo

There’s More Shooting, Less Screaming In Aliens: Infestation

Aliens: Colonial Marines seeks to create the terror and tension of key moments in the Aliens movie franchise, using high-end graphics and a first-person view to immerse the player. It’s DS counterpart, Infestation, just lets you shoot things.


August 24, 2011
PC

Everyone Can Hear You Scream At The Aliens: Colonial Marines Debut Trailer

When a handful of Colonial marines face-off against a never-ending swarm of acid-blooded xenomoprhs, the ending is never pretty, and rarely happy. Here’s the debut trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines.


August 18, 2011
PC

Latest Aliens: Colonial Marines Screens Are A Study In Sticky Situations

When dealing with an infestation of acid-blooded insectoid aliens, you’re bound to run into certain situations that require extra care and consideration on the part of you and your Aliens: Colonial Marines buddies. Let’s take a look at some of these.


July 16, 2011
Nintendo

Rating For Aliens: Infestation Shows It’s Not Game Over For Aliens On DS

The Nintendo DS game based on the Aliens franchise that leaked more than two years ago looks like its finally going to happen. Proof? Aliens: Infestation for the DS, a side-scrolling, alien-shooting platformer, was just rated by the ESRB.


July 2, 2011
In Real Life

Gearbox Could’ve Made A Blade Runner Game, But It Didn’t Want To Go Out Of Business

The studio behind Borderlands, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever once had an opportunity to make a Blade Runner game. It passed, its founders say, just like it passed on the planned video game version of Michael Mann’s Heat.


June 16, 2011
In Real Life

What Your Favourite Alien Movie Says About You

With Ridley Scott’s suspected Alien prequel, Prometheus, in production, it’s time to look back and ask: What does your favourite Alien movie say about you? The answers may surprise you!


June 10, 2011
PC

Aliens: Colonial Marines Is A Living Tableau Of Death, Bloody And Alien

Aliens: Colonial Marines is everything I’d want in an Aliens game starring tragically overconfident space Marines. It is spectacular with sprays of gunfire, acidic green blood, and horrific death.


June 3, 2011
News

Clearing Up – Sort Of – Where Colonial Marines Fits In Aliens Canon

When Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ official game announcement billed it as a “true sequel to James Camerson’s classic Aliens“, diehard fans of the film trilogy took that to mean the game would undo the events of the controversial Alien 3, harshly criticized by Aliens director James Cameron and some of its principal cast. Not so, says the studio making Colonial Marines.