Someone claiming to have worked for Gearbox warned over a year ago that development on Aliens: Colonial Marines was a "trainwreck", as the majority of the game was reportedly outsourced.

“ Primary development was outsourced to TimeGate Studios, which has a less than stellar past.

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Following a slew of less-than-flattering reviews for the game, internet sleuth Superannuation has uncovered some forum posts made around this time last year in which a person purporting to be an ex-Gearbox software dev warns fans not to get their hopes up for the game."Gearbox isn’t even making the game, except for the multiplayer. Primary development was outsourced to TimeGate Studios, which has a less than stellar past. I hope it proves me wrong, as I still have a lot of friends still working at Gearbox, but I am expecting it to be average at best."As well as TimeGate, other studios credited on Colonial Marines include Demiurge Studios and Nerve Software. In an interview with IGN , Randy Pitchford explained what each studio did, saying that TimeGate worked on “probably about 20 or 25 percent of the total time" of the game.The source went on to explain that he left Gearbox to work for "a new company in Austin called Armature Studio”, and added that his past experience included, “work for Retro Studios in Austin making the Metroid Prime series.”We've reached out to Gearbox to see how much substance there is to the claim and will update the story when we hear back.Thanks, Eurogamer

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