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Aliens: Colonial Marines, the much-delayed first person shooter in development at Gearbox, is due an imminent reveal, according to Alan Pritchard, VP of Sales and Marketing at SEGA America.

Speaking to Game Informer, (picked up by SEGAbits), Pritchard revealed that fans of the franchise would get an annoucement regarding the SEGA title in the near future, "Colonial Marines is still on," explained Pritchard, "We've been working closely with Gearbox behind the scenes, and we'll be able to tell you a lot about that in the next couple of months. It won't be November 11th [as previously reported]. We haven't announced a date yet."

Gearbox is currently busying itself with the release of Duke Nukem Forever, another game that once threatened to be vaporware.

Aliens: Colonial Marines has officially been in development at Gearbox since 2006, although it supercedes an unconnected Playstation 2 title of the same name that was cancelled before its planned release in 2001 by EA.

Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software wrote:To Gearbox Software and its peers throughout the industry, Aliens is one of the most influential science fiction properties of all time. Aliens: Colonial Marines, designed as an interactive successor to the landmark films from Twentieth Century Fox, is a dream project about which our studio is deeply committed and passionate.