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The bold and futile attempt to fix the disastrous Aliens: Colonial Marines
Aliens: Colonial Marines is one of the most infamous misfires of gaming history, a disaster of a scale that's relatively rare in the upper echelons of game development. Virtually everyone who played it at the time ackno…
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Alien Day Steam sale drops prices on some real highs and lows
Alien Isolation is an incredible example of how to perfectly capture the vibe of a beloved movie series and transform it into one of the best horror games in years. As Alien Day 2023 approaches, a celebratory Steam sale…
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Meet the modder who's spent years trying to fix the "unfixable" Aliens Colonial Marines
2013's Aliens: Colonial Marines is one of the most memorable gaming disappointments we've ever seen. After witnessing a gorgeous, atmospheric engine showcase back in 2011, fans of the series were hungrily awaiting a tru…
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Gearbox legal battle with former employee becomes messy publicly
Back in November, the Borderlands and Aliens: Colonial Marines studio Gearbox Software filed a suit against their former lawyer, Wade Callender, accusing him of “exploit[ing] Gearbox s generosity and trust for his…
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Gearbox is seeking a 'Programming Copy Editor' to frag future typos
Aliens: Colonial Marines suffered from a lot of issues, including wonky enemy AI that resulted in erratic and confused Xenomorph behavior. More than five years after it came out, someone discovered that the bad behavior…
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A single typo wrecked Aliens: Colonial Marines and people are handling it fine
In what feels like The Games Story Of The Year, during the Steam summer sale the much reviled Gearbox title Aliens: Colonial Marines was marked down to a stupidly low three dollars. A modder happened to notice that in t…
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All this time, Aliens: Colonial Marines' stupid AI may have been caused by a single typo
Aliens: Colonial Marines released on February 11, 2013. It wasn't very good. As Chris Thursten noted in our review, the AI of the aliens was especially bad. At the time, he said, "aliens pop out of vents and pop ba…
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The worst marketing misfires and PR moves in PC gaming (and a pair of console flubs, too)
Image source: The Elder Scrolls Wiki What happens when PR goes awry? Not slightly sideways, as we saw recently with the leak of Rage 2 (which is probably the best thing that could have happened to it anyway) but complet…
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Have You Played Aliens: Colonial Marines?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. You probably haven t and you probably shouldn t. A year before the world finally got the Alien game i…
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We talk to lawyers about the No Man's Sky false advertising investigation
To better understand the potential consequences of the UK's Advertising Standards Authority's investigation into No Man's Sky, we reached out to a number of legal experts proficient in the realm of v…
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Someone Is Trying To Fix Aliens: Colonial Marines
I mentioned Gearbox’s woebegotten Aliens: Colonial Marines in snarky passing earlier, and so was surprised to see the disappointing Xeno-shooter crop up in the news for Actual Reals. Turns out there’s a mod…
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Modder improves Aliens: Colonial Marines
Intrepid modder TemplarGFX has overhauled Aliens: Colonial Marines, taking it from middling shooter and legendary disappointment to competent FPS that does some justice to its source material (I fear the disappointment…
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Which Digital Game Store Is Best For Refunds: Steam vs. UPlay vs. Origin vs. GOG
Rumour has it that the decrepit Arkham Knight port beat a retreat on account of Steam refunds. After all, what better way to get a dastardly developer to blush and shuffle its hooves than to reverse its cash flow? Until…
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Randy Pitchford defends Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever
The likelihood is that, if you played Aliens: Colonial Marines or Duke Nukem Forever , you didn't much care for them. Maybe they were buggy, or maybe they didn't look as good as you expected, or maybe they were just off…
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Gearbox boss says Colonial Marines lawsuit was like "Mafia-style extortion"
My favorite thing about the legal action filed over Aliens: Colonial Marines is the way Sega tried to portray Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford as a loose cannon. He was initially seen as a "respected development celebrity"…
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Gearbox Dropped From Colonial Marines Class Action Suit
Gearbox Software, the studio that developed dreadful nonsense in the misshapen form of Aliens: Colonial Marines [official site ], have been dropped from a lawsuit that claimed the developers – with publishers Sega…
