Aliens: Colonial Marines release date pushed back to February 12

Colonial Marines was due to hatch in Autumn this year, but the latest release date suggests it needs to gestate for a little longer. February 12 2013 is the new date, as revealed by this tense new trailer starring a some screaming marines, frenzied aliens and the most unsafe bridge construct ever devised. If you have to link two vast space-behemoths together, you might as well do it in a way that provides the most picturesque possible view of the planet below. Just as long as nobody sets off a grenade in it, everything should be just fi-OH WAIT, NOOOO.

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.