Controversial Gearbox shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines is to gain a new campaign chapter, named Stasis Interrupted. The add-on is the final slice of DLC promised in the game's Season Pass, but the first to expand Aliens: Colonial Marines' single-player mode.

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TimeGate, best known for developing Section 8 and Aliens: Colonial Marines, may be no more. Kotaku has learned from two sources that the troubled studio laid off its staff today. Everyone was sent home early, according to one source.

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SEGA and Gearbox have now responded to yesterday’s news of a class-action lawsuit being brought against them for false advertising over Aliens: Colonial Marines. Gearbox’s comment says that “Attempting to wring a class action lawsuit out of a demonstration is beyond meritless.”

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Sega and Gearbox Software are the defendants in a class action suit claiming the two companies falsely advertised Aliens: Colonial Marines with unrepresentative trade show demonstrations. The suit, obtained by Polygon earlier today, was filed yesterday in the Northern District of California court by law firm Edelson LLC on behalf of plaintiff Damion Perrine.

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According to Kotaku, Sega has confirmed that development on the Wii U version has ceased altogether. This follows the game's removal from listings on several European retailers' websites.

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The Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines--reportedly the best-looking iteration overall--was supposed to ship by the end of March. That did not happen and Sega continues to decline to comment on the status of the project.

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Sega Europe has admitted to the Advertising Standards Authority that its trailers for Aliens: Colonial Marines were misleading. Sega's position was revealed by a Reddit user with the pseudonym "subpardave", who had submitted a complaint to the A.S.A. due to the "absurd" differences between the footage used to advertise the game and the quality of the finished product.

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A new patch for Aliens: Colonial Marines tweaking elements ranging from visuals, bugs, campaign to versus mode, is now live for the PC. In order to receive this patch, you must restart Steam and re-boot your copy of Aliens: Colonial Marines which will set you back about 4 gigs.

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Well, that was fast. Only a little over 24 hours have passed since Aliens: Colonial Marines emerged from its dark alcove, but graphics mods are already becoming available. Two such offerings are the DirectX 10 and SweetFX add-ons which spruce up shadows, lighting, and color palettes for something a bit more reminiscent of the films’ murky tones and cool hues.

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A "total train wreck" of development saw Gearbox outsource the entire single-player campaign of Aliens: Colonial Marines to TimeGate Studios, a recently surfaced forum post by an alleged ex-staffer at Gearbox has claimed.

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Showcasing some of the Xenomorph and Marines special abilities, this trailer provides a glimpse of the various tactical choices that players will need to make when playing the games competitive multiplayer mode.

The latest gameplay video of Aliens: Colonial Marines concentrates on what the Marines do best - kicking alien butt.

The latest round of Aliens: Colonial Marines previews have gone live, meaning we've had the chance to play the game and capture a load of new footage for you to watch. The movies show off a combined total of almost ten minutes of gameplay from the campaign and two objective-based multiplayer modes, Escape and Extermination.

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Come February 12th, 2013, you'll be able to explore the ruins of Hadley's Hope and many other areas following the events in the Aliens movie.

See the newest multiplayer mode in Aliens: Colonial Marines, Survivor. In Survivor Mode, players must work together to hold their ground against swarms of xenomorphs and fight until the last player is left.

SEGA has today announced 'Escape' mode, a new competitive multiplayer mode, for Aliens: Colonial Marines. With a competitive death match game mode already revealed earlier in the year, Escape mode is the second in a number of competitive multiplayer modes for the game.

Escape mode puts the four-person US Colonial Marines team on the offensive against a four-player Xenomorph team. The Colonial Marines must blast their way through the fast-paced map in order to escape the attacking Xenomorphs, who in return will try to eliminate their prey as quickly as possible. Under the pressure and limited in time, players will have to work together as a team, utilizing each faction’s unique skills, and identifying their opponents’ weak spots to either reach the safety of the escape point or to eliminate their targets.

Aliens: Colonial Marines will be available in stores across the globe on February 12th, 2013 for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. A release date for the announced Wii U version will be revealed at a later time.

In the second developer dairy of Aliens: Colonial Marines, the developers talk about the battle between the Marines and the Xenomorphs.

Aliens fans have started a petition pleading for developer Gearbox to include female marines in Aliens: Colonial Marines' multiplayer mode. According to the petition founder, Melissa K., Gearbox producer Brian Burleson has said that there will be female marines in the single-player campaign, but multiplayer will apparently only offer up male marines as playable characters.

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