June2012

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  15

  News Demiurge Studios Handling Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U

  With care

  Gearbox Studios has revealed development work on Aliens: Colonial Marines for Wii U is being handled by Demiurge Studios. Demiurge, the team behind Shoot Many Robots on PSN, spent nine months creating a prototype of the game before being given development duties. Gearbox is also collaborating with Texan studios Nerve and Timegate, but 80%...

  • Mon 4th Jun 2012
  • E3 2012
  • Wii U
  • Gearbox Software
  • Demiurge Studios

May2012

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  35

  News Gearbox: "Wii U is a Powerful, Powerful Machine"

  Top gear

  Gearbox Software, the team behind Aliens: Colonial Marines on Wii U, has been a vocal supporter of the machine so far. Comments from chief creative officer Brian Martell sit at the top of our Wii U power thermometer and Randy Pitchford said the Wii U's A:CM will be the best-looking version. Now we can add senior producer Brian Burleson's...

  • Fri 25th May 2012
  • Gearbox Software
  • Wii U
  • SEGA
  • Upcoming Releases

April2012

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  16

  News Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U Definitely "Not a Port"

  Cleared up

  Gearbox is doing a lot of talking about Aliens: Colonial Marines on Wii U lately, but wants to make one thing clear: it's not a port. Warp Zoned spoke to SEGA senior producer Matt Powers, who referred to the game as "the Wii U port" before Gearbox community manager Chris Faylor stepped in to clarify: I hate that word. The Wii U...

  • Wed 11th Apr 2012
  • Gearbox Software
  • Wii U
  • SEGA
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  38

  News Gearbox: Wii U Out-RAMs Xbox 360 and PS3

  Has "really great processor"

  There's a lot of Wii U love going on at Gearbox these days. Last week Randy Pitchford implored Nintendo for more Wii U power, and now the studio's Brian Martell has told Official Nintendo Magazine the console will have one of the best-looking versions of upcoming shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines. Martell is chief...

  • Wed 4th Apr 2012
  • Wii U
  • Gearbox Software
  • Hardware

March2012

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  45

  News Gearbox: "No Other Platform Can Do What Wii U Can"

  "Nintendo to show more soon"

  Gearbox Software is prototyping Aliens: Colonial Marines for Wii U, and studio president Randy Pitchford has spoken to Vox Games about its work so far on the next Nintendo platform. Comparing the upcoming shooter to its current-gen counterparts, Pitchford was glowing about Wii U's potential: The Wii U version has so...

  • Thu 29th Mar 2012
  • Wii U
  • Gearbox Software
  • The Future

February2012

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  45

  News Gearbox Wants As Much Wii U Power As Possible

  More power

  Gearbox Software's Aliens: Colonial Marines is in the works for Wii U, and president Randy Pitchford has urged Nintendo to make the machine as powerful as it can afford. Speaking to Nintendo-Gamer, Pitchford said: Our hope at Gearbox is that the final specification for the hardware is much more powerful than the current competitive...

  • Mon 27th Feb 2012
  • Wii U
  • Gearbox Software
  • The Future

June2011

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  11

  News SEGA Prototyping Aliens: Colonial Marines for Wii U

  Lurking in the shadows

  One of the many third-party Wii U games shown off at E3 was SEGA's Aliens: Colonial Marines, with the company announcing the game is being 'considered' for the next Nintendo console. The footage shown during the E3 conference looked pretty good to us, and the possibilities for the Wii controller with the Aliens franchise are...

  • Wed 8th Jun 2011
  • Wii U
  • Sega
  • E3 2011
  • Gearbox Software