{"id":44119,"date":"2012-09-03T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44119"},"modified":"2012-09-03T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T13:54:46","slug":"aliens-colonial-marines-adds-female-characters-to-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44119-aliens-colonial-marines-adds-female-characters-to-roster","title":{"rendered":"Aliens: Colonial Marines adds female characters to roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40735-fans-start-petition-to-include-female-soldiers-in-aliens-colonial-marines-multiplayer.html\" target=\"_blank\">petition to get female characters into Aliens: Colonial Marines<\/a>? The shocking twist isn&#8217;t that the petition worked, but that the petition wasn&#8217;t even necessary because female characters were always going to be in the game anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to Kotaku, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford explained that including female characters in a game is important for both visual and gameplay diversity, and that Aliens: Colonial Marines had them on the team from the get-go, and that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/include-playable-females-in-aliens-colonial\/\" target=\"_blank\">petition featuring almost 4000 signatures<\/a> &#8211; including people involved in the original 1986 Aliens movie &#8211; had<em> nothing whatsoever to do with it, nuh-uh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, both the co-op campaign and competitive multiplayer modes <em>will<\/em> feature female characters, so that&#8217;s nice. The co-op team lineup has been confirmed as Cpl. Christopher Winters, Pvt. Demarcus Short, Pvt. Jennifer Redding, Quintaro and Pvt. Guillermo Quintaro, and players can choose who they want to be. You&#8217;ll want to be the one with the biggest gun, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>Aliens: Colonial Marines launches on 12 February 2013, just ahead of Valentine&#8217;s Day so now you and your partner can make it a totally romantic date night. Nothing says &#8220;I love you&#8221; like an independently targeting particle beam phalanx.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5939939\/despite-accusations-aliens-colonial-marines-will-indeed-have-female-marines-gearbox-says\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43967-aliens-colonial-marines-adds-a-marines-vs-xenomorphs-multiplayer-mode.html\">Aliens: Colonial Marines adds a Marines vs Xenomorphs multiplayer mode<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40735-fans-start-petition-to-include-female-soldiers-in-aliens-colonial-marines-multiplayer.html\">Fans start petition to include female soldiers in Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38141-aliens-colonial-marines-gets-a-release-date.html\">Aliens: Colonial Marines gets a release date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/37275-aliens-colonial-marines-screenshots-crawl-in.html\">Aliens: Colonial Marines screenshots crawl in<\/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<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/images\/31548-aliens-colonial-marines-screenshots.html\">Aliens: Colonial Marines screenshots<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-op and competitive multiplayer modes get the feminine touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31546,"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":[31,2153,1525,819],"class_list":["post-44119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-aliens-colonial-marines","tag-gearbox","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44159,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44119\/revisions\/44159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}