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And Now Aliens: Colonial Marines Won't Be Coming Out This Year, Either

Gearbox's Aliens side-story slips to February.

Game later, man! GAME LATER!
Game later, man! GAME LATER!

It seems game publishers can't escape this year's holiday rush fast enough. Over the last couple of weeks, major games such as BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, and South Park: The Stick of Truth made hasty exits into early 2013, and now Aliens: Colonial Marines will be joining them.

Originally slated as a fall 2012 release, Sega announced today that Gearbox Software's upcoming first-person shooter based on the popular film franchise will instead release on February 13, 2013 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

As for the Wii U version of the game, which had at one point been targeted as a launch title for Nintendo's new console, it currently has no finalized release date. Sega's press release simply says that a date will be announced "at a later time."

Aliens always seemed like a game on the bubble, anyway, considering its release date had been kicked around a few times previously. Still, that's several big titles that have slipped out 2012's back door, and one gets the impression that this won't be the last time this happens before the year is out. Anyone want to take odds on which game might be next?

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Game over man!! Game over!!

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As I've mentioned before, the only game I care about coming out this year at this point is Borderlands 2. I can't imagine that 2K would let that game get delayed though now that Bioshock Infinite has been delayed.

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Boo on the release date, but super excited for this.

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Everyone was saying 2012 would be a gigantic year in terms of game releases, but now it's kind of starting to look like 2013 is going to be bigger.

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@Video_Game_King said:

You know what I love? When developers try to avoid a crowded holiday market and delay their products, thus inadvertently created the crowded release market they wished to avoid. Gotta love irony.

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You heard the the man and you know the drill Gearbox! Ass h@les and elbows...Hudson come here. Come HERE!

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Yeah man, they all knew there was gonna be a new COD and a new Assassin's Creed, they all knew Halo 4 was coming as well...

It's gotta be GTA...

BTW, DmC just got pushed to 2013 as well...

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Every time I'm looking forward to this game it gets further away. Somebody hand me a pair of binoculars.

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Alas, I have patience. I just don't want 2k games messing around with the bioshock release dates anymore otherwise I'll be infuriated... damn it I love that game.

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That's great, this is really fuckin' great, man. Now, what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some pretty shit now, man.

Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?

It'll mostly be coming out next year...... mostly.