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    25/10/2009

    Colonial Marine Weapon Renders

    AvPGalaxy.net, has some very cool new renders of the Colonial Marine weapons. They have two new renders of the M56A2 Smart Gun and one new one of the M41A Pulse Rifle with its grenade launcher sight flipped up. I added all the images to the photo album.
     
    SmartGun SmartGun (2) PulseRifle
    Note the ammo readout on the magazine shield and the "Adios" motto on the Smart Gun body. Remind you of anyone from the movie?
    18/07/2009

    High Resolution Screens

    Locusta and Takhen from the Gearbox forum, both found some high resolution shots of the previously released screens. In them there's a lot of extra detail that couldn't be made out clearly before, for instance:-
     
    Corporal Hicks motif on the M3 Armour.
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    The M10 Pattern Ballistic Helmet with tactical camera.
     
    M240 Flame Thrower.
     
    M40 HE Fragmentation Grenades (red cap)
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    Distance read-out on motion tracker.
     
    Benelli M4 Super 90 semi-automatic shotgun.
     
     
    VP70 Pistol.
     
    PN30 Grenade Launcher sight.
     
    Visual progress feedback from weld.
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    Xenomorph warrior body detail.
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    Xenomorph warrior head detail 1.
     
    Xenomorph warrior head detail 2.
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    You can find all of the original hi-res shots here, here and here, though the colours are a bit funky on some of them. Alternatively you can view / download all nine re-adjusted colour versions from my skydrive photo album.
    17/07/2009

    Possible ACM Screens?

    Back in March 09, Takhen a Gearbox regular discovered two unrefined images that appear to be from ALIENS: Colonial Marines on photobucket. At the time the images couldn’t be verified by Gearbox, so its still very possible that these could be fake and not from the game at all. We will probably never find out, but here are the screens anyway. You guys can make up your own minds.
     
     
    Both screens look like they have been taken in the same area, and show disembodied android legs just in front of a marine APC.
      
     
    You can view and download the large sized images from the photo album.
    02/07/2009

    Game Assets

    A Gearbox forum member, Takhen has been doing some thorough investigative work and checking out artist portfolios online and uncovering what appears to be assets for the game. Below are several images from different sources, of what looks like model and visual effects work for the game.
     
    These are from Jonathan Smårs online portfolio.
     
      
     
    These next three are Sulaco interiors from Michael Ramos portfolio.
     
      
     
    This from Mat Harris.
     
     
     
    And finally this last one seems to be a visual effect for acid corrosion. This is from the portfolio of Matthew Stock.
     
     
     
    You can download a small video clip of the effect here. [Right click, save target as]
     
    You can download all of the images from the photo album.
    08/01/2009

    New Screenshot (Sort of)

    A new screenshot was discovered at lorinwood.com. Lorin Wood is the Senior Concept Designer at Gearbox Software for ALIENS: Colonial Marines. The screen is actually a similar shot to the one from the Gearbox press pack, but the new one appears to be processed differently and looks more cinematic. Over at the GBX forums, Lorin said that this is his own personal touched up version, but that it is in game.
     
    Lorin's touched up version.
     
    The original from the Gearbox press pack. Note the Slightly different camera angle.
     
    You can view and download the large sized version from the photo album.
     
    Thanks to Funcroc for the discovery.
    15/05/2008

    New Concept Art & Renders

    Some amazing concept art for Aliens: Colonial Marines has been discovered at AvP2Daily.com. They are environment concept pieces, very much in the style of Syd Mead. You can view and download the full sized images via the photo album.
     
    Cityscape concept art. 
        
     
    Asteroid base concepts.
     
     
    Concept drawings and 3D render for sliding door, along with marine and xenomorph character concepts.
        
     
    Thanks to Darkness from AvPGalaxy.
     
    And I forgot to post the renders that came with Gearbox press pack, so here they are. The APC left and right side, Pulse Rifle, Power Loader and Dropship. The large sized pics can be found in the photo album.
     
        
      
    03/03/2008

    Screenshots from the Gearbox Press Pack

    Gearbox / Sega have released 17 new screenshots in the Gearbox Press Pack. You can view and download the large sized images from the photo album.