Gearbox to develop "Alien" FPS

Here's a follow-up to two these two posts:

• Game licensing deals of note ...
• Obsidian to develop "Aliens" RPG

SEGA has picked Gearbox to develop the FPS based on the ALIEN franchise.

The Gearbox folks earned their stripes successfully porting top-license games (like Halo and Half-Life), and is the creator of the amazing Brothers in Arms franchise.

I'm pretty excited to see what these top-tier folks can do with the license (and the bar's set pretty high, considering the critical and popular success of the Aliens vs. Predator games).

Here's the press release.