{"id":38141,"date":"2012-05-21T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=38141"},"modified":"2012-05-22T14:36:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:36:35","slug":"aliens-colonial-marines-gets-a-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/38141-aliens-colonial-marines-gets-a-release-date","title":{"rendered":"Aliens: Colonial Marines gets a release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sega\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20965-SEGA-Dreamcast\">SEGA<\/a>, <a title=\"Gearbox Software\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20171-Gearbox-Software\">Gearbox Software<\/a>, and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products finally got together to hammer out a release for Aliens: Colonial Marines &#8211; a game that has been on and off development and delayed a few times since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming everything goes to plan, Aliens: Colonial Marines should be with us on 12 February 2013, for <a title=\"PC Gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21037-PC-Gaming\">PC<\/a>, <a title=\"PS3\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-(PS3)\">PS3<\/a>, and <a title=\"Xbox 360\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a>. A <a title=\"Nintendo Wii U\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19914-Nintendo-Wii-U\">Wii U<\/a> launch date will be revealed later.<\/p>\n<p>Player&#8217;s will be stepping into the first-person boots of United States Colonial Marines as they face off against the iconic baddies from the Aliens films. The multiplayer component of the game also allows players to enter a third-person mode to play as the Aliens as well.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the launch date trailer below &#8211; Gearbox totally means business.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBtomGhalic\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">About Aliens: Colonial Marines<\/h3>\n<p>Aliens: Colonial Marines begins with an ostensibly abandoned ship, the U.S.S. Sulaco, recovered in orbit around LV-426. Players lead a group of highly trained United States Colonial Marines as they board the deserted craft to uncover the fate of the crew.<\/p>\n<p>They will have to fight to survive unspeakable horrors and their own anxieties as they chase down the truth behind a galaxy-spanning deception that places humanity at the mercy of the most murderous and deadly species in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Aliens: Colonial Marines features authentic environments, such as the surface of LV-426 and Hadley\u2019s Hope, weapons inspired by the film series and is designed to provide an exhilarating and engaging new chapter in the ALIENS universe.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35519-aliens-colonial-marines-on-wii-u-will-be-one-of-the-best-looking-versions-of-the-game.html\">Aliens: Colonial Marines on Wii U will be \u201cone of the best looking versions of the game\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/32066-aliens-colonial-marines-has-been-a-dream-project.html\">Aliens: Colonial Marines has been a \u201cdream project\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long in-development Aliens FPS gets one step closer to reality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":35520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4113,2153,1525,21,2219,1109],"class_list":["post-38141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aliens","tag-aliens-colonial-marines","tag-gearbox","tag-headline","tag-megarom","tag-sega"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38143,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38141\/revisions\/38143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}