Sega "intent" on Aliens Marines on Wii U

By Robert Purchese Published 17 June, 2011

What about Creative Assembly's Alien game?

Aliens: Colonial Marines was one of the games featured in a Wii U show reel during Nintendo's E3 press conference.

But what seemed to be irrefutable confirmation of the game's existence on Wii U has withered away: Sega sat on the fence at E3 and the show reel turned out to comprise PS3 and Xbox 360 footage.

Now Gary Dunn, Sega Europe's managing director of development, has declared his "intent" to Eurogamer to see Colonial Marines on Wii U.

"We are in the processes of solidifying it but yes," he told us, "it's certainly our intent to publish that game on Wii U."

Aliens: Colonial Marines is being developed by Gearbox Software, maker of Duke Nukem Forever and Borderlands. Eurogamer explored its spooky corridors at E3 and discovered a film-faithful co-op shooter.

Sega has another Alien game under development, too. It's being made by an expanded console team at Total War developer Creative Assembly. That project is in its infancy. Will Sega consider the game for Wii U?

"We're considering it," said Gary Dunn. "But there are no decisions on... The Creative Assembly Alien title we haven't announced any platforms for yet.

"As we go through production we'll need to monitor what the best platforms are to launch that game on."

The Wii U show reel from E3.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (6) Latest comment 11 months ago

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  • AcidSnake #1 11 months ago

    Film-faithful as in in not film-faithful?

    Anyway, good news obviously...Can't wait for the motion tracker!

    EDIT: Why the negs? Because I'm glad a seemingly good game includes another console or because the game isn't that faithful to the films?
    Edited by AcidSnake at 17/06/11 @ 13:09

  • BuddyChrist #2 11 months ago

    Exactly, that's the first valid use I have heard so far for that wanky overdeveloped U controller: the motion sensor from aliens. ... Though they could have put it onscreen... Doh!

  • randompanda #3 11 months ago

    I really, really wish that A:CM footage didn't excite me so much - because I know it'll lead to disappointment.

    But it looks fantastic.

  • TonyHarrison #4 11 months ago

    I can just imagine playing the game in a dark room with no sound but the controller making the famous noise of the motion sensor. Make it happen.

  • dirtysteve #5 11 months ago

    Could the Wii u controller double as the motion tracker? It seems like it's a perfect fit. I want to see it now.
    I wonder if the controller could be used in other games to minimise HUD. I guess it depends on how immediate the information needs to be.

  • ToAks #6 11 months ago

    huh??? The creative Assembly team was renamed was it not?