Aliens: Colonial Marines Blasted By Critics, Will It still come to Wii U?

Thursday, 14th February 2013
Posted in Industry
Tags: Aliens, colonial, development, game, gearbox, marines, resources, said

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Aliens: Colonial Marines released this week to a barrage of negative reviews. The game’s apparent troubled development cycle is the reason it came up short with critics and gamers alike.

We had the um…pleasure, of reviewing the game last night in the 1337LoungeLive, which you can watch in the video below (spoiler: dubstep).

GameSpot said the game is a “disappointing exercise in bland corridor shooting” Joystiq felt it was an “unfettered disaster” and Polygon said “Aliens: Colonial Marines fails as an action game: from the bad aiming and joyless battles to the brainless story.”

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Marines Help Develop Advanced Weapons, UAVs, & Face Recognition Technology

Tuesday, 27th December 2011
Posted in Blog Archive, Gadgets, Technology
Tags: advanced, Corps Base Camp, DoD, face recognition, marines, military, progeny, Progeny Systems, systems, technology, UAV

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Progeny Systems, a company that specializes in developing advanced technology for the United States Department of Defense, recently visited marines at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejune, N.C to get their opinion on future advanced military technology.

Lt. Col. Randy G. Pugh, an intelligence officer for the II Marine Expeditionary Force had this to say on the Official U.S. Marine Corps Website:

“The idea was to bring together the engineers that are building these different systems with the people that are going to eventually use these systems. So that rather than waiting to the end when you hand a Marine something and say this is what I think you want. You’ve asked them all along the way your building it.”

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