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Gearbox Is Holding Off On Showing Brothers In Arms

Colonial Marines backlash is making the company cautious
by Oliver VanDervoort on September 16, 2021   

Gearbox Entertainment is working on a new Brothers in Arms game. However, the company is not planning on showing it off anytime soon.

In a discussion with the Game Maker’s Notebook podcast, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford mentioned that a new game was in development, but cited the disastrous release of Aliens: Colonial Marines as the reason nothing’s been announced yet.

According to Pitchford, one of the reasons Colonial Marines was such a critical failure was because the game was announced too early and it made people start imagining a game that, in his view, could never be accomplished.

“The ink wasn’t even dry and they couldn’t help themselves, Fox and Sega,” Pitchford claimed. “Fox was so excited, they wanted to let their world know that their licensing business was good."

“And Sega was really excited to let the world know that hey, they’re trying to get into bigger AAA stuff and make some real bets. So the contract wasn’t even signed yet and they announced this deal." Pitchford continued.

“And the second you hear Gearbox and Aliens and Unreal Engine, everybody already designed the game in their own head and so there’s no hope for us.”

Pitchford added that the early showing of Colonial Marines was out of character with Gearbox. That's also why he thinks it's going to be a while before the company shows any football of whatever the new Brothers in Arms game is going to be.

The first Brothers in Arms game, Road to Hill 30 was also the first standalone game developed by Gearbox (the studio had previously made some Half-Life expansions).

Gearbox went on to develop every main game in the Brothers in Arms series, which ended on console and PC with Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway in 2008.

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