In a recent interview with AvPGalaxy, Rebellion Studios’ Martin Kennedy and Alex Moore openly spoke their minds regarding last month’s Australian ratings fiasco with Aliens vs. Predator before revealing news of an upcoming demo for the game. “People who want the game will get [it] imported, it’s not going to hurt us … if anything it’s been a bit of decent publicity,” Kennedy said. “We’re not going to water down the game for countries that can’t treat adults like adults,” continued Moore.

Moore even went as far as to compare Australia’s ban-happy government (as of late, at least) to past situations with Germany. “Germany’s always one of those places that we’ve known it was going to be difficult because the first one [game] got banned in Germany as well.” When pressed on the subject of a demo, however, the duo were more careful in their wording. “There will be a demo …that’s all we can say,” Moore confirmed. Considering the game is still on schedule for an “early 2010” release (maybe February?), we’re hoping that the demo will be arriving sooner rather than later.

Rebellion refuses to ‘water down’ Aliens vs. Predator, readying demo originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As far as we know, the kind of laziness which prevents you from visiting the nearest Blockbuster Video is a worldwide phenomenon. According to a press release (.doc link) dropped just in time for CES, Microsoft is catering to this global lethargy by opening up the Xbox Live Video Marketplace to ten more countries this fall: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Australia and New Zealand.

Basically, if the Xbox Live Video Marketplace was playing Risk, it’d have a kickass lock on the Eastern Hemisphere.

Xbox Live Video Marketplace coming to 10 more countries ‘this fall’ originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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