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Sega has published details of its Q1 financial report, highlighting a 53% profit increase for the year ended March 31, 2013. The publisher’s biggest hit for the year was Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, while Aliens: Colonial Marines old1.3 million copies worldwide.

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Gearbox Software and Sega have both issued dismissive statements regarding a class action lawsuit accusing the two companies of falsely advertising Aliens: Colonial Marines.

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After laying off a lot of staff members and being hit with a $7.35 million lawsuit by SouthPeak Interactive, TimeGate Studios has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Gearbox and Sega have been accused of false advertising in a class action lawsuit over Aliens: Colonial Marines.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines received a patch yesterday from Gearbox Software on Steam, only to be pulled due to problems reported such as missing downloadable content and and not being able to use ini tweaks due to anti-cheating changes. Gearbox said it pulled the patch until it could figure out what was causing the corrupt DLC error, and later on in t he night it re-released the patch stating that the reported problems had been solved. The firm said on its forums it “continuing to work on updates for all platforms, including the hot fix support mentioned at PAX,” and that more details would be released once finalized. The patch which was re-released added a toggle for the film grain filter and increased security to address cheats and exploits.

Thanks, Blue.

SEGA has canceled the Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines, after weeks of Internet rumblings on the matter. A spokesperson confirmed the cancellation to Kotaku with the following statement: “We are constantly looking at all areas of our business and in this case have made the decision to not continue development of the Wii U version. Rest assured that we have some fantastic developments for Wii U in the pipeline which we will announce at a later date.”

SEGA also contacted VG247 to confirm that the Wii U sku of Aliens: Colonial Marines “is no longer in development.”

Aliens: Colonial Marines still has not received a new released date for Wii U having missed a targeted March launch. A Sega representative simply told Gamespot that the publisher has no comment on the matter, and Gearbox and port developer Demiurge are also playing mum. The shooter attracted a great deal of attention at release due to its poor critical reception, and discrepancies between promotional materials and the final product have even drawn the wrath of the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency.

Aliens: Colonial Marines has received another patch on PS3 and Xbox 360. This time the update fixes odd animations, multiplayer bugs and other weird goings on.

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Gearbox Software has released a whopping patch for the PC Version of Aliens: Colonial Marines, adding a visual upgrade among other fixes.

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Gearbox Software has issued an update for Aliens: Colonial Marines, packed to the brim with bug fixes.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines spent four years in stasis at Gearbox; two years in development at TimeGate; and nine months being hastily turned into a working game, anonymous sources have claimed.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines was the vehicle through which Gearbox Software “embezzeled” funds from Sega to make Borderlands 2 and Duke Nukem Forever, a purported Sega insider has claimed.

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Jim Sterling, with help from some civilians, has pulled up the résumés of some folks at TimeGate studio that describe the kind of work they did on Colonial Marines.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines bears little resemblance to video walkthroughs shown well before the game’s release, and Randy Pitchford has commented on the matter.

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Modders and power users have begun finding way to improve the Aliens: Colonial Marines experience on PC. Check out this Steam community post for an example of how far hobbyists have already gone in tweaking the game’s aesthetics; it’s expected that more weighty mods will follow shortly. Aliens: Colonial Marines released to a very poor critical reception and questions have been asked about its drawn-out development cycle.

Thanks, CVG.

Aliens: Colonial Marines on Wii U is apparently the worst version of the bunch. That’s the claim of a so-called QA tester for Sega Europe who has been spilled many beans on Reddit recently. We’re heavily regarding all of the below as rumour at this time.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines has shot to the top of the UK charts, netting a bigger opening weekend that fellow space hopping shooter Dead Space 3.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U was rumoured to be cancelled, following a rumour sparked by a Kotaku writer. Today, Sega’s UK team has stated that this isn’t true.

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A person claiming to have worked on Aliens: Colonial Marines’ development has posted on Reddit a rumored history of the game’s development woes.

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For the Aliens fans out there, here’s the first 10 minutes of Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines. The footage was taken from the PC build, at the highest graphic setting my PC could muster.

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