Sega, Creative Assembly Announce New Alien Game

After its latest trip to feudal Japan, developer Creative Assembly is headed for the stars. The Total War studio, fresh off of shipping Shogun 2 in March, announced today it is making a game based on the Alien movie franchise.

Sega, which owns the rights to Alien games, has tasked Creative Assembly with creating a "core console" game set in the sci-fi universe first established by Ridley Scott's 1979 film and expounded upon in James Cameron's 1986 sequel, Aliens.

- H.R. Giger

The announcement came via a press conference this morning in the UK, where Creative Assembly said it will open a new 10,000-square-foot studio for the project and hire an additional 40 employees. And while the studio and Sega provided few details about the game itself, CVG managed to squeeze a bit more info out of Sega West Boss Mike Hayes.

"This is very much a triple-A project," Hayes told CVG. "We want this to be a peer to the likes of Dead Space 2."

CA Creative Director Mike Simpson also told CVG that Sega gave him the directive to "win awards" by Sega.

Platforms and a release window were not announced, and Creative Assembly did say that it will not be showing anything from the project at next month's E3.

The publisher and developer also noted that the new project is unrelated to the long-in-development Aliens: Colonial Marines game Gearbox Software has been working on for Sega since early 2008.