Aliens: Crucible

Investigating Aliens: Crucible

The team at GVMERS has brought us a 15-minute video documentary for Obsidian Entertainment’s cancelled Aliens: Crucible, and it is easily the best source of information on what the role-playing game would have brought to the table, had it been…

Chris Avellone on Aliens: Crucible Plot and Cancellation

YouTube channel “TheGebs24” published a video on Obsidian Entertainment’s canceled Aliens RPG, which contains some new info on the game’s plot and the studio’s reaction to the project’s cancellation, courtesy of Obsidian CCO Chris Avellone: I’m certainly not going to…

Ex-Obsidian Anthony Davis on Aliens: Crucible

While project director J.E. Sawyer says he can’t comment on the recently released Aliens: Crucible footage, Anthony Davis, an ex-Obsidian developer, has proven far more talkative and offered some juicy tidbits to the RPG Codex crowd: The problem with making…

Aliens: Crucible Gameplay Footage Surfaces

After the earlier animation reel, some new gameplay footage has surfaced for Aliens: Crucible, thanks to Unseen64, and this time it’s a meaty 13-minute video of a 2008/2009 build of the game, which showcases character generation and progression, some very…

Aliens: Crucible Animation Reel Footage Surfaces

I don’t know if this would have gotten the same kind of attention if Aliens: Colonial Marines wasn’t such an incredible, colossal failure, but DSOGaming spotted some animation reel footage for Obsidian’s canceled Aliens RPG, codenamed Aliens: Crucible, showing some…

J.E. Sawyer Video Interview

The latest episode of Matt Barton’s Matt Chat video series is an interview with Obsidian Entertainment’s Josh Sawyer discussing his pre-Fallout: New Vegas work, including his start in the industry, the games that most influenced him, the canceled Baldur’s Gate…

Kevin D. Saunders Social Interview

Ex-Obsidian designer Kevin D. Saunders is the latest to join the Q&A-driven social network Formspring, following J.E. Sawyer and George Ziets among others, and has already started answering questions on his past work. Here’s on Neverwinter Nights 2’s expansion Mask…

Aliens: Crucible and Dungeon Siege III Concept Art

Concept artist Wook Hyung Charles Lee has recently updated his personal blog with seventeen pieces of artwork he previously created for Obsidian Entertainment – ten for the cancelled Aliens: Crucible (depicting various rooms from the living space of a planetary…