Aliens: Fireteam Elite
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite hands-on — Game over, man! Game over!

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

Aliens: Fireteam Elite, a new survival shooter with co-op play, is coming out in North America and Europe on August 24 for PC and PlayStation and Xbox consoles. And it was my pleasure to get a taste of the Cold Iron Studios game over the past few days.

My preview focused on the beginning, where you fight in a co-op fireteam, a trio of heavy-duty Colonial Marines, to fend off the mass attacks of the creatures from all directions. It was my first hands-on since chief creative officer Matt Highison and studio head Craig Zinkievich talked about the making of the game in March.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.