It's been revealed that Shogun 2: Total War developer Creative Assembly is working on a new Aliens game. Details are sparse, but it's been confirmed to RPS to be an action title, with the studio bumping up its employees considerably for the project.
Amusingly, it wasn't the game's publisher, SEGA, that spilled the beans, but a British politician. Game supporter and UK Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey recently took a trip to Creative Assembly's studio, and he Tweeted that the game was in the works.
"Great visit to Creative Assembly one of UK's best developers. Now hiring for new blockbuster based on Alien," he said, also bigging up the graphics, which are "out of this world."
Interesting stuff indeed. The guys who made the decent-but-not-great Viking: Battle for Asgard will be handling the title, and Dead Space 2 has been namechecked as an inspiration. We'll have to wait and find out more, but I'm always down for more Aliens games.
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7:54 AM on 05.12.2011 | 
Hopefully it actually releases
ambushes. swarms. taking out the hive "queens" etc. only resources are what you find at colonies and can carry back to the ship after the mission.
if theres a hunt with no real technology around, you have to survive the mission with what you start with. but you can use the resources to upgrade stuff back at your ship. kinda like gearing up your guy in syndicate before each mission.
of course this isnt exactly how it should go but some ideas. man i wish i could program.
Viking Battle for Asgard was fucking horrible.
They are going to fuck it up just like AVP.
Sir, put down the absinthe.
@tahmid: It means Rock Paper Shotgun.