This week for our co-op stream we looked at Aliens: Fireteam Elite, the three player co-op shooter from developer Cold Iron Studios. The co-opticrew sort of slept on this one, but once we landed planet-side we realized that there's a good ol' fashioned fun game to be had here.
It's natural to be wary of a new Aliens game. The last one was a Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance-like trainwreck, after all. Still, the new third-person shooter formerly known as Aliens: Fireteam comes from an entirely different developer and publisher, Cold Iron Studios and Focus Home Interactive, and it looks pretty sweet. The game has recently been rebranded as Aliens: Fireteam Elite, and it will be releasing on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam on August 24.
It's been a difficult time for Aliens games as of late. Sure, Alien: Isolation might have enjoyed a few accolades recently, but Aliens: Colonial Marines just didn't live up to the hype. However, we'll forever have those precious few good games in that universe, with the most heralded being Aliens vs Predator 2000, which is now available for free on GoG.com.
Been feeling the urge to squash aliens in co-op lately? From now until June 2nd, Xbox 360 Deals with Gold is running a sale that may just help you satisfy that urge. The list of games includes Star Trek, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Alien Hominid HD, Earth Defense Force 2025, Aliens vs. Predator, Alien Breed Evolution (Episode 1), Alien Breed 2: Assault, and Alien Breed 3: Descent.
This month's installment of Tabletop Co-Op will be a bit different than usual. Generally, I cover board game card games that are currently in print, or at least easy to track down. Today, though, I'm going to share a recent experience I had playing a decades-old board game that has been modified and tricked out into something spec...
As a rule, movie tie-in games are pretty awful; Aliens: Colonial Marines, R.I.P.D., Star Trek - all are co-op, all based on movies and all pretty poor. They also happen to be coming on sale between 8-14th October over on XBLA. If you need proof that some movie games can be good Guardians of Middle Earth is also on offer.
Aliens: Colonial Marines Season Pass owners can now get their final piece of DLC. "Stasis Interrupted" crept onto digital markets yesterday. I know ACM was a disappointment to many, including me. It fell somewhere on the Outraged Gamer Scale between "Don't care" and "OMG! Let's sue over the Mass Effect 3 ending." It has finally been put out of it's misery.
Ok, we admit Aliens: Colonial Marines is one of the biggest failures in gaming we can remember in recent history. It took years and years to develop, it was released loaded with bugs and glitches, the campaign was just downright lacking, and the Wii U version was canceled. But that shouldn't stop anyone from making some good ol' fashioned DLC, should it?
In news that probably shocks no one, Sega has officially confirmed that the Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines is no longer in development. The latest Aliens game, developed by Gearbox and published by Sega, came out mid February of this year on PS3, 360, and PC; however, the promised Wii U version was conspicuously absent from Q1 2013. There was no comment by Sega or Demiurge (the developer in charge of the Wii U port) then about its absence, leading to speculation about the port's cancellation. Today it's official: there's no plans of it ever happening.
