Layoffs at one Aliens: Colonial Marines dev

gearbox fucked up and someone else paid the price gearbox lost my respect for them.

It looks really cool, would be very neat if the Steam box or simply a better PC than I have now could fit in to a box that small. I am looking to build a new PC in the next year to play newer games in HD. However, for $1000 I'll just buy the individual parts and build a monster versus buying that.

Funny how it was Gearbox all through development, now it's shit it is someone else who developed it lol.

Morale of the story here :- Finish your work that was given to you first ( A : CM) instead of abandoning to it to a 3rd rate developer at the 11th hour to focus on your next project ( Borderlands 2)

not surprising after that game

I still can't but wonder what the hell did they do with the E3 demo.. :-/

Layoff the whole Gearbox!

I guess someone had to get the boot after making a horrible game and obviously losing a lot of money. It will always boggles my mind how you can put out this crap. How in the world did someone screw up this bad?

Neerd developers make nerd games.Bad guys make bad ass games.

enough said

The demo never looked that good either. I knew this would be mediocre the first time I saw the first gameplay video.

all I can say to the guys leaving is -- Game Over Man, Game Over!

Any game with the Sega logo is doomed if platinum games isn't in on it.

They weren't able to keep up with the quality of the demo showed earlier. Somewhere somehow there was a communication gap and that cost the franchise a big price. Next time someone puts an aliens in the title, people are going to think twice. That said, it is sad to see when studios lose development talent. Good Luck to them all!

They have failed and they have to pay for it, as we did for their failure!

Hopefully those incompetent dev will decide a carrier change before it is too late...

A sad year for Aliens indeed.

Honestly after playing the full game and looking at the E3 Demo I have one question: What the hell happened? The graphics are so radically different I just don't know what to make of it. Missing decals...poor shading..washed out colors..the list goes on.

Heck, there's even one part where they boarded up a collapsed wall just to prevent us from seeing the landscape outside. In another area, they blocked off a dark tunnel where you make a stand against an alien horde with turrets. Yes, they literally just threw a random wall up and skipped an entire sequence. The aliens even spawn BEHIND the wall and are trapped.

ACM was a bad idea. I know it, you know it and unfortunately the fired dev team of ACM knows it.

I feel sorry for them... Guess they are not making a sequel after all...

This is weird. Plenty of companies do this after their game is released even IF it is successful.

However, some of these games also have future planned DLCs. So don't they still need those employees on their payroll? Or do they make all DLCs well in advance?

My question is how did anybody sign off on this game? Didn't anyone play the "final" beta, rewatch the E3 trailer and ask "Why isn't this the same game?". Time Gate may (or may not) be the developer to blame for the game's quality, but at some point Gearbox and Sega have to step up and say "yeah, but we gave the game the go-ahead to enter production in order to meet a release window, so at the end of the day, we take responsibility". It's not like a game is made by a single, passionate artist in a dark room, then released to the world for it to love or hate- there are TEAMS of people who test and re-test games- and at the end of the day, those teams played the game and said "it might squeak by with a few 6.0s, but we have to get this thing out before Crysis 3 and Bioshock Infinite or we're screwed... how many preorders do we have?...really? okay f**k it, ship the thing".

Some of these comments are sickening. For those who lost their jobs I give them good luck. Hope they find a job soon.

Well maybe they should have made a good game.

hahahahha. Doesn't surprise me one bit. I got more respect for HOSTESS food company compared to these morons...hey Gamestop and Best Buy's HIRING.

Is this suppose to be surprising?

"As part of this reinvention, all projects and strategic initiatives continue to move forward at the studio." With the way Aliens: Colonial Marines turned out...this is probably a very bad thing. >_>

"We're doing all we can to assist those developers affected." I always find that hard to believe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWT8hXbYz5w holy crap