Gearbox: Aliens Colonial Marines Announced 'Too Soon'

[deezelboy]

No surprise at all, but NowGamer reports that Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford thought the original news release for Aliens: Colonial Marines was perhaps a tad premature:

"Duke Nukem Forever is consuming about 70 staff, so there’s still a huge amount of push power behind our other projects," said Pitchford. "We’re very, very committed to Aliens: Colonial Marines and we’re very excited about that project.

In it's excitement Sega jumped the gun a little with the announcment of Aliens: Colonial Marines, said Pitchford. "I know it’s been ‘radio silent’ for long and we know that must be frustrating for some people, but the game was announced too soon."

"There was so much excitement and I know a lot has changed at Sega, but they were very excited, they did the deal with Fox and before the ink was even dry they issued a press release announcing it."

"At the time we hadn’t written a single line of code yet. It takes time to build games, but it’s going great and I’m very excited about it. It won’t be long before we break radio silence and we’re able to show it."

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/4393/aliens-colonial-marines-announced-too-soon

[BishopIII]

At least we can be fairly certain that it isn't dead in the water. I was wondering what had happened to it.

[CanadianHero67]

I guess this is good news. I feel dumb for not thinking of that reason they have been so quite.

[Hudson]

This is somewhat of a relief, but then again, I was excited about the new AvP game too. 

[Puks]

Let's just hope this won't end up like DNF.

Oh, wait..