Aliens: Colonial Marines is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by Gearbox Software and TimeGate Studios and published by SEGA for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A Wii U version was being produced for release but was eventually cancelled on April 5th 2013. The game takes place in 2179 and is a sequel to the 1986 film Aliens and takes place after the death of Ellen Ripley in Alien3. In it, a second group of Colonial Marines are dispatched to investigate the incident on LV-426, leading them to the abandoned USS Sulaco, the ruined human colony of Hadley's Hope and the derelict ship on the planet's surface.