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Aliens: Colonial Marines Must Feel Authentic, Developer Says

Aliens: Colonial Marines received a launch date earlier this week and now Gearbox Software, the developer of the game, has revealed a few more details about its strategy concerning the tactical shooter. Aliens: Colonial Marines has been in development for quite some time, as part of a collaboration between Fox, Sega...

23 May 2012
17:41 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Gets February 12, 2013 Release Date, New Video

Sega and Gearbox Software have revealed a brand-new release date for Aliens: Colonial Marines, namely February 12, 2013, alongside a fresh video and some more details about the development process. Aliens: Colonial Marines was announced many years ago as a partnership between Fox, Sega, and Gearbox. Since then, the ...

21 May 2012
09:40 GMT

Anonymous Denies Possessing Information About Aliens and UFOs

A video recently posted on YouTube has revealed that the Anonymous community holds information regarding the existence of extraterrestrials, which they plan on making public in the upcoming period. In the video entitled “Anonymous message: we are not alone” the online activists explain that the informati...

9 May 2012
04:27 GMT

Colonial Marines Will Be as Important to Aliens Cannon as Prometheus

Aliens: Colonial Marines has long been in development and that means that it will arrive in a year, and meanwhile the franchise will also get a new movie, something that might diminish the impact of the video games. But speaking to Kotaku, Randy Pitchford, the leading developer working on Aliens: Colonial Marines, s...

7 May 2012
14:21 GMT

Martian Monolith Most Likely Just a Boulder

A structure discovered on the Red Planet, and believed to be a monolith left behind by alien civilizations, may in fact be nothing more than a rectangular boulder, scientists from the Arizona State University (ASU) say. The rock was first discovered several years ago, by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's (MRO) ...

12 April 2012
09:17 GMT

SEGA Is Getting Ready for Extraordinary Losses Linked to Underperforming Video Games

SEGA Sammy has announced that it is preparing itself for a loss of 7.1 billion Yen, which is the equivalent of 85.3 million dollars (63.9 million Euro), which it has described as extraordinary, mostly because of its video games division’s lower-than-expected performance. The loss will be officially reported after Ma...

2 April 2012
08:12 GMT

Gearbox Says Colonial Marines Pays Respect to Aliens Influence on Gaming Industry

Gearbox is a very busy developer, with Borderlands 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines both set to launch during 2012, and the leader of the team says that Aliens is the labor of love for the company, despite the difficulties it has generated during the creation process. Randy Pitchford, the leader of Gearbox, spoke to T...

30 March 2012
19:41 GMT

Mass Effect Petition Pressures UK Government on Alien Existence

It seems that developer BioWare and publisher Electronic Arts are interested in promoting their upcoming Mass Effect 3 by asking their fans to put pressure on real-world governments to offer information on what they known about life on other planets. The petition appears on its own mini-site linked to the official M...

23 February 2012
10:01 GMT

Incoming 2012: Aliens Colonial Marines

What we know: Aliens: Colonial Marines is another game that is supposed to arrive during 2012 and has been in development for a long time and the pedigree of Gearbox suggests that Aliens fans might finally have a serious game to cut their teeth with, after the first Aliens vs. Predator title. The concept of the Ali...

11 February 2012
09:11 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Gets Impressive Cover, More Details

Sega and Gearbox Software have just deployed a few more details about their upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines project, alongside an actual cover for the game. Aliens: Colonial Marines has been in development for quite some time, as both Sega, its publisher, and Gearbox Software, its developer, are taking their time ...

10 February 2012
04:24 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Gets New Gameplay Video, More Details

Gearbox Software has just deployed a fresh gameplay video from its upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines title, while its CEO, Randy Pitchford, has talked about its recent delay and the new things included in the game. Aliens: Colonial Marines has been a long time coming, with both its publisher, Sega, and its developer...

6 February 2012
03:12 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Gets Classy Cinematic Trailer

Sega and Gearbox Software have just deployed a brand new trailer for their upcoming Aliens: Colonial Marines tactical shooter, this time showcasing some of its action through a classy cinematic video. Aliens: Colonial Marines has been a long time coming, with Gearbox Software working on the video game adaptation of ...

30 January 2012
09:54 GMT

“Nanny” Fran Drescher Was Abducted, Probed by Aliens

Fran Drescher, she of the “Nanny” fame, believes she was once abducted by aliens. Not only that, but she was also probed and had a chip implanted – and she says she has the evidence to back up her claims. Drescher made the startling revelation in a brand new interview with The Huffington Post, sayin...

30 January 2012
08:33 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Delayed Once Again, Now Arrives in Fall

Sega and Gearbox Software have confirmed that Aliens: Colonial Marines, their tactical shooter that’s been a long time in development, has been delayed once again and is now scheduled to arrive this fall. Aliens: Colonial Marines was announced many years ago by Sega, with the team at Gearbox Software working h...

27 January 2012
14:11 GMT

Triangular UFO Revealed by STEREO Is an Artifact

In late December, images posted by the science team operating the NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) showed what appeared to be a triangular Unidentified Flying Object. The American space agency is now demonstrating that the UFO was just an artifact. This mission is designed to observe the Sun. I...

19 January 2012
14:01 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Collector’s Edition Leaked on the Web

An image that might depict a very special Collector’s Edition for Aliens: Colonial Marines has just surfaced on the web, showing off its impressive contents. Aliens: Colonial Marines has been in development for quite some time, with studio Gearbox Software and publisher Sega working hard to do the prestigious ...

11 January 2012
04:00 GMT

Religious 'Encounters' Are the Result of Lucid Dreams

According to the conclusions of a new scientific study, it would appear that people who claim to have seen angles over the course of history, or who are convinced that they've had religious visions and epiphanies, were having spontaneous lucid dreams. The vast majority of encounters described in the Christian ...

22 December 2011
06:01 GMT

'Men in Black 3' Trailer – Time Seems to Stand Still

Given the kind of obstacles “Men in Black 3” had to overcome to see another day on the silver screen again, for fans, the release of new trailer must feel like manna. You can see it full above. For half the trailer, it doesn't feel like anything has changed. In fact, we might be watching either the f...

12 December 2011
11:29 GMT

New 'Battleship' Trailer Brings Mayhem on Earth

Michael Bay has just been outdone. A while ago, Hasbro agreed to have a movie made of Battleship, one of the most simple and popular games out there, sending movie buffs into disbelief. The second trailer is bound to answer a lot of questions. Because the game usually has 2 players trying to sink each other'...

10 December 2011
06:33 GMT

Broaden the Search for E.T, Experts Urge

If we are serious about searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, then we should significantly widen our area of research, say experts. They explain that most efforts are currently focused on worlds that look just like our own, and add that this approach is very limiting. With recent studies showing that liquid ...

22 November 2011
09:40 GMT

White House Denies Establishing Contact with E.T.

Interestingly enough, the US federal government actually answered a couple of petitions from the general public, inquiring as to whether American authorities ever established contact with alien civilizations. The answer, as expected, is no. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our p...

8 November 2011
04:48 GMT

The Search for Extraterrestrial Artifacts Heats Up

When humankind decided to send its coordinates into space, aboard gold disks installed on the Pioneer space probes, many started wondering whether a potential alien civilizations may have sent a similar call into space. Two experts now provide an explanation for why we heard nothing from aliens. The reasoning in itse...

7 November 2011
11:00 GMT

UFO Encounters May Be Nothing More Than Vivid Dreams

Following a new scientific investigation, a group of investigators from the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center, in Los Angeles, announces that it has obtained the first direct evidences demonstrating that encounters with UFOs and aliens are a product of the human mind. In their experiments, investigators asked ...

27 October 2011
16:01 GMT

Searching for Signs of Alien Activity Here on Earth

Since Hollywood-inspired scenarios of how we'll meet aliens for the first time are not too likely to happen, scientists are taking matters into their own hands. They have recently decided to conduct a new type of study, one that would focus on finding tracks that aliens may have left behind here on Earth. Such ...

27 October 2011
08:59 GMT

Watch the 10 Minute Demo Walkthrough for Aliens: Colonial Marines

Gearbox has been pushing hard to make players interested in Colonial Marines, its team based shooter that will exist in the same universe as the Aliens movie series, and now the development studio has put out a pretty lengthy demo walkthrough which shows the game in action.The video is 10 minute long and this seems t...

3 October 2011
09:58 GMT

Finding Aliens Would Disprove the Concept of God

A group of Christian thinkers gathered over the weekend at the 100-Year Starship Symposium organized by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said that finding alien life forms would be a great challenge to the very perceived existence of God. Most of the world's religions would be affecte...

3 October 2011
03:47 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Gets New Details from Gearbox Software

After spending quite a lot of time in development, Aliens: Colonial Marines is finally nearing its completion, with the staff at Gearbox Software working hard to make sure that the experience won't disappoint the legions of Aliens fans. Sega had quite a few projects centered around the Aliens series, but only...

26 August 2011
15:51 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Benefits from Fox Creative Freedom

The developers at Gearbox who are working on Aliens: Colonial Marines have been given a lot of freedom by 20th Century Fox, the company that holds the rights to the intellectual property based on the well-known series of movies. Brian Martel, who is the chief creative officer at Gearbox, has talked to Gamespot abo...

23 August 2011
17:41 GMT

Aliens May Frown Upon Our Ecological Behavior

In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Acta Astronautica, experts from the Pennsylvania State University say that alien civilizations may detect Earth based on its changing climate. When this happens, we may be in a world of trouble.Highly-advanced, highly-intelligent alien lifeforms may not...

20 August 2011
04:01 GMT

Gearbox: Fan Service Is at the Core of Aliens: Colonial Marines

For a long time fans and analysts believed that Aliens: Colonial Marines, the game under development at Gearbox, had been canceled but now that the developer is ready to talk about the project the company is saying that one of the core ideas behind the title is to deliver as much fan service as possible without intru...

19 August 2011
03:44 GMT

The Psychology of Looking for Alien Life

As more and more experts start to move from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to attempting to message alien civilizations (METI), critics are arguing that its safer to limit ourselves to observations. These critics are more useful to characterizing them than alien races. Since the dawn of time, the...

11 July 2011
08:50 GMT

Aliens vs. Predator Review

Even if you're not a Sci-Fi games fan, when you hear Aliens vs. Predator, you must have some sort of reaction, just like everybody else. If you haven't played any of the previous games, then you must have watched one of the Aliens movie, or the Predators ones (if not, you should definitely become famili...

21 June 2011
11:20 GMT

SEGA Confirmed Aliens: Colonial Marines for Spring 2012 Launch

Video game publisher SEGA and developer Gearbox have announced that Aliens: Colonial Marines, their first-person shooter based upon the well-known series of movies, is set to be launched during the spring of 2012 on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC. For a long time, it was believ...

2 June 2011
04:59 GMT

UCB Scans Kepler Targets for Signs of Intelligence

A group of astronomers from the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have just started a new investigations campaign, during which they will analyze some of the most Earth-like exoplanets identified by the NASA Kepler Telescope. Thus far, the instrument was able to find 1,235 planetary candidates, of which m...

14 May 2011
04:26 GMT

Macro-Engineering Artifacts Could Permeate the Universe

Scientists at NASA have lately began to wonder as to whether the planet-seeking telescope they operate would be capable of picking up signs of alien civilizations, and the artifacts that their macro-engineering of the Galaxy or the Universe would leave behind. Some experts have proposed a long time ago that an an...

14 May 2011
03:31 GMT

Creative Assembly Makes Aliens Game Tailored for Consoles

The Creative Assembly, as the developer, and SEGA, as the publisher, have announced that they are working on creating and launching a new video game based around the Alien science fiction universe, set to be launched exclusively on gaming consoles. The developer has not talked about specific consoles on which the ...

13 May 2011
03:23 GMT

New List Indicates Places Unsuitable for Second Earths

A group of astronomers has recently published a new report, indicating areas in the Universe that are very likely not to be able to support Earth-like exoplanets. Finding such an object is the holy grail of exoplanetary research, and so this list may help save researchers a lot of time. The investigation is also ...

2 May 2011
07:22 GMT

Alien Invaders Will Most Likely Be Artificial Lifeforms

Scientists are convinced that, if a hypothetical alien invasion were ever to occur, it would most likely be carried out by robots, and not by organic creatures. Indeed, this scenario seems to make the most sense, if you are an advanced civilization able to travel within a galaxy, or between galaxies. If we were to se...

11 March 2011
03:33 GMT

Life May Have Had Multiple Origins

Astronomers say that life may have originated at many locations across the Universe at the same time. This means that it may have also developed in other places other than our galaxy, the Milky Way.In a recent study, experts demonstrated that life is nearly 10 billion years old, which puts its age on par with that of...

8 February 2011
09:23 GMT

The Pros and Cons of Contacting Aliens

Last year saw the heating up of an interesting controversy between proponents and opponents to the idea of sending out radio signals in an attempt to contact alien civilizations. Since then, experts in the international scientific community haven't stopped talking about it. There are many aspects to consider...

7 February 2011
02:21 GMT

Robots Are the Future of Space Exploration

The general feel among space analysts is that upcoming missions to other moons, planets and stars will be carried out by robots, or by cyborgs, but not likely by humans. It's only fitting that things should be set up like this too, they add. According to studies, the number of advantages that robotic space explo...

3 February 2011
05:51 GMT

Aliens May Be Signaling Us Via Galactic Flashes

At this point, analyzing cosmic events called celestial flashes represent a brand new area of astronomy, and one that garners a lot of interest from numerous research groups. Some even say that the events may in fact represent signals sent to us by alien civilizations hiding among the stars.Galactic flashes may have ...

27 January 2011
05:09 GMT

New Aliens: Colonial Marines Info Coming Soon

Developer Gearbox has said that it will soon be talking some more about one of its most interesting future projects, Aliens: Colonial Marines, denying that the game has been delayed into next year and that no further news about it would be delivered in 2011. Randy Pitchford, who is the leader of Gearbox, has told ...

12 January 2011
16:41 GMT

Life Is Possible Throughout the Universe

I personally find it a bit peculiar that, lately, a lot of talk has been going on in the international astronomical community about the possible existence of life in other places in the Universe. Those rumors are about to get a new boost, as experts announce the discovery of what could very well be the fingerprint of...

12 January 2011
10:58 GMT

Maybe We Should Fear Aliens, Experts Say

Given the wealth of recent studies showing that it wouldn't be at all impossible for other planets to host forms of life, it stands to reason that the international scientific community has began wondering whether actually going out of our way to contact extraterrestrial civilizations is indeed the way to go.For...

10 January 2011
10:53 GMT

Using the Sun to Communicate with Aliens

In a recent issue of the scientific journal Acta Astronautica, experts proposed we use our Sun as a communications device. Harnessing its gravitational power could enable us to contact and establish a dialog with extraterrestrial civilizations, they added. Granted, the only issue with this plan is that no one yet kno...

17 December 2010
10:29 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Details Coming Soon

Sega, besides preparing more and more Sonic games and trying to release a Dreamcast collection for current generation consoles, is also preparing a big announcement concerning Aliens: Colonial Marines. In case you haven't heard about the game, the title has been in development at Gearbox Software for quite so...

16 December 2010
02:30 GMT

Theatrical Trailer for ‘I Am Number Four’ Is Out

As the blogosphere is buzzing with talk of what odds aliens have to take vampires in terms of movie releases for 2011, the first theatrical trailer for “I Am Number Four” has dropped. Apparently, the answer would be: pretty good. The film, starring up-and-coming Alex Pettyfer and based on a series of n...

8 December 2010
09:49 GMT

New Listening Experiment 'Redials' Studied Worlds

Investigators who search for signs of extraterrestrial activities and intelligence in the Universe are ready to start listening in again on distant worlds that were first surveyed some 50 years ago. At the time, the first search for radio signals emanating from other civilizations ended up with no tangible results, b...

11 November 2010
02:16 GMT

Aliens Take Over in First Trailer for ‘I Am Number Four’

When he’s not directing robot movies, Michael Bay is taking a great interest in producing alien flicks, which, according to some, will come to replace vampires onscreen next year. The first trailer for “I Am Number Four” is out. Though boasting a cast that includes relative newcomers, the film is al...

30 September 2010
05:14 GMT


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