Developer breaks silence, confirms all work has ceased on sci-fi film-inspired role-playing project; publisher says there are "no plans to move forward" with the game.
Last week, gaming fans of the 1986 film
Aliens (see below) got some welcome news when Gearbox Software confirmed it
is still developing Aliens: Colonial Marines. The game, which has been back-burnered so the Texas developer can focus on its original October release Borderlands, had been rumored to be canceled following the surprise announcement of Aliens vs. Predator.
(Insert 'game over' joke here.)
Another game that was rumored to be canceled was the unnamed Aliens role-playing game being developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Though the independent shop, formed in 2003 by former Fallout 2 developer Black Isle Studios, remained officially mum on the matter, GameSpot learned that work on the title had been
indefinitely suspended in February. Though
the game's forums remained active on the Obsidian site, subsequent reports from former staffers said
the game had been canceled outright.
This afternoon, Obsidian made it official with
a brief post from an administrator on the Aliens
RPG forums. "Rumors have circled around a bit regarding the fate of the Aliens role playing game that Obsidian and Sega had been working on," read the post. "Unfortunately, it is true that we are no longer working on the game, and we wanted to finally announce that officially to everyone who has been following its development." The Aliens
RPG forums will continue to operate another week before being dismantled entirely.
After weeks of promising that information would be forthcoming, Sega was quick to confirm the project's demise. "At this point, Sega has no plans to move forward with the Aliens
RPG," a rep told GameSpot. "The
Aliens franchise offers us so much content to choose from that we feel it important to take a step back and carefully consider the type of game we want to release. We plan to continue working with the Aliens franchise and ask fans to be patient and stay tuned for more information about what Sega has coming out for the Aliens series of games, starting with the upcoming Alien vs. Predator game."
Sega will still publish Obsidian's
Bourne Identity-like espionage
RPG Alpha Protocol, due out this fall on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. The Irvine, California-based shop is also hard at work on
Fallout: New Vegas, which will be published by Bethesda Softworks next year.
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