Gearbox revealed that it will be releasing a new update for Aliens: Colonial Marines PC, possibly next week. According to the development team, this update will be quite large in size and will come with better textures, improved visuals, the addition of a mouse smoothing option, as well as all those fixes included in the latest PS3 and X360 patches that were released a couple of days ago. Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines To Receive New Update With Improved Visuals & Enhanced Textures→
By now, everyone knows that Aliens: Colonial Marines is not up to what they had hoped and does not come close to the demo version that was showcased in E3. Sure enough, our SweetFX mod can bring some of its atmosphere back, however the lack of dynamic light sources and shadows is something that has a big impact on the game’s visuals. So why is the final version so different from the demo version? The answer is simple: the demo version of Aliens: Colonial Marines ran on a high-end PC that surpassed the capabilities of both PS3 and X360. Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines Infamous Demo Was Running In Real-Time On A High-End PC→
A couple of days ago, we informed you about a mod for Aliens: Colonial Marines that was supposedly enabling a DX10 renderer for it. Despite the fact that this mod was featured in most places, it seems that it is not what most of you were hoping for. According to modder MaLDo (the one behind the amazing Texture Pack for Crysis 2) this mod is a big scam and believes that this – alongside ACM Custom Settings – is ‘the bigger fake I can remember in gaming.’ Continue reading Modder MaLDo trashes AliensDX11 Mod: “This is the bigger fake I can remember in gaming”→
Aliens: Colonial Marines will be the title that will surpass Duke Nukem Forever. Yes, it wasn’t under development for as much time as 3D Realms’ FPS was, however it turned out to be just as bad as Duke’s latest adventures. And ironically, it will keep us busy for a long time. A tester of Aliens: Colonial Marines has started an AMA on Reddit and according to the moderators of the sub-reddit /r/Games, this is a valid tester of Aliens: Colonial Marines. In other words, no, this is not someone trolling or someone faking information just for the heck of it. Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines tester spills the beans: “SEGA were well aware the game sucks”→
Justin Salih has informed us about a video he made using our SweetFX mod and the DX10 mod for Aliens: Colonial Marines. The DirectX 10 Mod is said to add better lights and realistic light-shadow effects lamps, as well as better reflections for the weapons. The good news here is that these two mods are compatible with each other, meaning that you can use both of them. You can view such a combination below in Justin’s video. Those interested can download the DX10 mod from here and our SweetFX mod from here. Enjoy! Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines – DirectX 10 and Sweet FX Combo In Action→
The team behind the Half Life: Dreamcast mod have released a new version of it. In light of the new Linux, Mac, and SteamPipe additions made to Half-Life on Steam, a required update was made necessary for the mod. Therefore, the team behind it has released a new version of Half-Life: Dreamcast that adds full compatibility with the recent Steam changes. Continue reading Half Life: Dreamcast Version 1.1 Released→
Modder ‘skyms2663’ is currently working on Black Mesa: Insecurity, a re-imagining of the Half-Life expansion Blue Shift, created for the Source engine mod Black Mesa. What the modder hopes to achieve is an experience similar to Black Mesa’s. In other words, expect the same gameplay with Blue Shift and better visuals than what Gearbox offered back then. Continue reading Black Mesa: Insecurity is a re-imagining of Half-Life: Blue Shift→
Let’s be honest; we all got disappointed with Aliens: Colonial Marines’ visuals. And to be honest, it was a challenge for us to make this game look good. Naturally, it is still not as good as other triple-A titles due to its engine limitations (or the fact that Gearbox did not take advantage of a lot of graphical effects that Unreal Engine 3 supports). Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines Can Look Good – SweetFX vs Vanilla→
Gearbox has released the first title update for its Aliens: Colonial Marines game. According to the changelog, this update comes with various performance and general user interface improvements, fixes collision issues and fixes some Single Player and Multiplayer issues that have been reported. Unfortunately, no AI tweaks for all of you so here is hoping that Gearbox will address it in a future patch. You can view the complete changelog (for all platforms) below. Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines Gets Its First Title Update→
Well, we kind of saw that coming. Back when Gearbox and SEGA showcased Aliens: Colonial Marines, we were worried about its direction. Everyone was expecting Aliens: Colonial Marines to rule their world and instead of that, they got a big letdown. In fact, here is what we wrote back in December: “I seriously hope that this new Aliens game will surprise me pleasantly, though I’m a bit disappointed from what I’ve already seen”. We could bash this new Aliens game, but then again this is not a Review for Gearbox’s title. Though to be honest, its gameplay mechanics are similar to those of other FPS titles, so it’s kind of bizarre witnessing websites and magazines bringing the hammer down on this Aliens game, when they have been enjoying this type of games and have been giving high scores to such titles this whole time. But anyway, let’s see how Aliens: Colonial Marines performs on the PC platform. Continue reading Aliens: Colonial Marines – PC Performance Analysis→
