Cold Iron Studios
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The remote game development studio behind @AliensFireteamE - available now on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC! Want to work with us? We're hiring!
Joined August 2015
We're all excited to finally announce and reveal what we've been working on. .
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After a period of silence, we can let you in on what's going on: The Aliens shooter is still going strong, and we're so excited to be joining the @DaybreakGames team! 🤘
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We're excited to announce that we've joined the FoxNext family and are working on a game for one of their coolest IPs: Alien!
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Today marks our 6 year anniversary as Cold Iron Studios! We're tremendously grateful for the amazing year our players have given us, and look forward to many more.
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ok but shout out to Signalis - if you want a fresh sci-fi horror indie to play you GOTTA check this game out.
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Follow @IGN 's exclusive month-long feature of @AliensFireteam in March, featuring our very own @CrypticZinc and @MattHighison.
Watch 25 minutes of exclusive, explosive gameplay from Aliens: Fireteam, the just-announced third-person co-op survival shooter in the vein of Left 4 Dead.
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Good news everyone! @AliensFireteamE is now up for preorders and we just announced its launch date, August 24th! We can't wait!.
Enter a dangerous world and #SurviveTheHive on August 24th, 2021. Pre-order #AliensFireteamElite on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One or Steam: 👈.
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Brief update from all of us here at the studio. The team remains excited, focused, and we're making great headway in development. Our partners have been very supportive. .
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Come work on Aliens with us!. Summer 2019 open positions are open now! . #gamedevjobs #gamedev #Alien #Aliens
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This month marks the 7th anniversary of Cold Iron Studios 🎉. The team has grown a lot and accomplished some exciting things, but we're just getting started. We're so thankful for the love & support from all our players, and can't wait to show you what we have cooking next 🔥
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New AFE content might be dropping very, very soon. .
We’re getting reports of failing structural integrity on all 3 levels of the cistern maintenance room. Xenomorphs have taken it over, marines! Let’s take it back.
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. and everyone is fully committed to seeing our project through. Can't wait to show off what we have in store for all of you. For now, stay safe!.
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We're looking for Principal & Senior Character Artists to join our team of awesome devs working on our Aliens game! Know anyone? #CharacterArtist #GameDevJobs #Xeno #Aliens
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AFE is nominated for THE GRAMMYS!!!!. So excited for @AliensFireteamE and @awintory to be part of the first ever video games category nominations🔥.
Congratulations 65th #GRAMMYs Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media nominees: @awintory (@AliensFireteamE); @StephEconomou (@assassinscreed); @bearmccreary (@CallofDuty); @Richard_Jacques. (@GOTGTheGame); and @christophertin (@mohawkgames)
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The whole Cold Iron team got together in-person for the first time EVER last month 👀 . Here’s a nice and fresh non-video-call group photo of the whole team at our Vegas all-hands meetup 👽🔥
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so Cold Iron gives everyone on the team a bi-yearly work-from-home fund. can I get away with spending mine on this??? Please say yes
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The new #DeadSpace remake is so good oh my god. Huge shout out to the team at @MotiveStudios for killing it with this one
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We're celebrating National Video Games Day with week-long of online gaming here at the studio. How are you celebrating this awesome holiday? Share a video or screenshot and tag the @ColdIronStudios team. #NationalVideoGamesDay
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We think the Cold Iron team has embraced working from home pretty well. Wishing you peace and safety during these crazy times!
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What could this be???👀👀👀.
Alert - there’s been a multi-level breach in the Katanga cisterns. Standby for operation orders and prepare for a brand new mission, Fireteam.
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Last Friday we celebrated Cold Iron's 4th Year Anniversary! We couldn't be more excited about the team we have assembled or the project we're working on. 👍
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IT'S LIVE!! LETS GOOOOO.
Time to take back the Ruptured Cistern, marines. A new wave survival map is out NOW in Aliens: Fireteam Elite, alongside limited-time Winter challenges and cosmetics. All for free. You ready to squad up?
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We're called Cold Iron because I always forget to iron my clothes
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Our game couldn't have been made without the women at Cold Iron Studios - to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth here's a thread spotlighting a bunch of the cool, talented, Xenomorph-slaying ladies on our team 🔥.
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We ran a selfie scavenger hunt during the Cold Iron Vegas trip to get everyone to snap a bunch of fun pics during the week - but almost all of them ended up involving @MattHighison making really weird faces
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Some days we get a reasonable amount of food. Today is not one of those days. 🌮🌮🌮 Taco lunch at the studio!
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if your game doesnt have giant murderous unfathomable monsters that are also maybe just a little hot then WHAT is the POINT.
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me when I told the groupchat I'd be online in 5 minutes but the game has a 50GB patch that I never downloaded
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do you prefer "I have a shotgun and a rocket launcher" horror games or the "I have no weapons and existential dread" horror games.
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The Cold Iron #EXTRALIFE train keeps chuggin' 🚂. Join @matthighison, @TisCaydiem + Cold Iron CEO Craig Zinkievich live for some @AliensFireteamE charity streaming + help us hit our goal of $15k+ for @ExtraLife4Kids 👽🔥.
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We had a lot of fun decorating our @xmasintheparksj tree this morning! If you happen to be in San Jose this holiday season, definitely check out our xeno-tree. 🌲
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We're excited to share that @ColdIronStudios is starting our first @ExtraLife4Kids team!. Team is open to ALL - devs, community, friends & family. Join us #ForTheKids! .
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Love is in the air in the form of heart-shaped balloons. ❤️🎈❤️Happy Valentine's Day from Cold Iron!
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Merry Christmas, Cold Iron gang 🔨🎄. What video game gifts did you get?? 👀.
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It's another tournament lunch at Cold Iron today! Today's game: Stick Fight the Game from @LandfallGames. Game on!
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Today, we practice the Cold Iron tradition of walking to a flower shop together! 🌹 Thanks so much to our friends and family who support us year round. We hope to help you feel especially appreciated on this special day! #ValentinesDay
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You can also read this announcement on our revamped official website here:.
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And of course no game is complete without a team celebration. Cookies from @noxcookiebar for everyone who rooted for @FinkCG as their champion!
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Cold Iron is participating in Extra Life this year supporting local hospitals! Join us in supporting Extra Life here: Today a few Cold Iron folks will be streaming and on Tuesday the studio will be doing a day long series of Twitch streams.
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay 🧡. The women at Cold Iron Studios are incredible, inspiring, and MEGA talented - come give a big thanks to these game dev all-stars 🔥. #IWD2023.
Happy #InternationalWomensDay colonial marines! We’ve got plenty of strong, unforgettable women with us here on the Katanga - today is all about celebrating them.
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what would our logo look like if it were an actual character. im picturing like a buff blacksmith with neon orange hair, thoughts?
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we're discussing really important stuff in the Cold Iron Studios groupchat I promise
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Happy Pumpkin Day from Cold Iron Studios! We're kicking off fall with an onslaught of home baked goods, pumpkin spiced lattes, and other tasty pumpkin-themed treats. 🎃Are you doing anything fun to celebrate fall?
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The Season of Giving is alive and well at Cold Iron! Thanks @BillWilsonCtr for allowing us the opportunity to brighten the holidays for local foster kids & their families.
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Happy Health Day! Yesterday we had smoothies, massages, and flu shots - plus we kicked off our first ever step competition! We're doing everything we can to stay healthy so we can keep making you an awesome game! 👍
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Congrats to our first and second place winners, @FinkCG & Raquel! You two played a great game!
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Finally remembered the login password so we ARE BACK 🔥. More tweets, more memes, more news. And some spicy #ExtraLife plans to announce next week. You might wanna keep an eye on our shiny new Twitch page - link in the replies.
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Happy National Cookie Day, everyone! And thank you @noxcookiebar for helping us celebrate this very important holiday. 😀🍪🍪🍪
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We're in the homestretch now! Just over one hour left of our charity stream! .
Guess what?! We have another Game Day Fundraising Update!! 👏 Because of the donations you're raising, our member hospitals can improve treatments and facilities, addressing the most challenging health issues of today. #ExtraLife
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We still have casual Extra Life streams going!. Come check out some Sea of Thieves and Hades. This Tuesday will be our larger company stream. Extra Life : Hades(Then Sea of Thieves):Sea of Thieves:
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Cold Iron got invited by @baextralife to tour the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital as a thank you for our @ExtraLife4Kids fundraising stream!!. We even got to pose with a comically large check for the $10,958 that you all helped us raise during #ExtraLife 🧡
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Cold Iron is going BIG for #ExtraLife tomorrow. Your to-do list:. 🔸Peep our stream schedule below.🔸Follow us on Twitch.🔸Get ready to help us raise money for @ExtraLife4Kids
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1 Year ago we added Sr. #Animator Nikita Carbone to our team, and she's an AWESOME addition to the team and office ever since!
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IT'S #EXTRALIFE TIME GAMERS!!!. We're live ALL DAY to stream, game, and raise up to $5k for @ExtraLife4Kids 🔥. Tune in now to catch Jordan, Caryn, and @sp00kydeluxe from Cold Iron Studios playing #Overwatch2 and @jackboxgames for charity!.
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Tomorrow, starting at 11AM PST, Cold Iron's team is participating in a day long @ExtraLife4Kids stream. Our Extra Life Team is open to ALL - devs, community, friends & family. Join us #ForTheKids! .
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Thank you @GDoCExpo for coordinating this effort! Some of our devs have joined this thread to mentor and assist #blackgamedevs. We hope you're able to take advantage of this opportunity if you're a Black #gamedev or artist who wants support.
Several non-Black #gamedevs and artists have offered to mentor and assist #blackgamedevs and artists with their career. If you want to help, please reply to this thread. And if you're a Black #gamedev who needs support, share your work!.
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What's a game you'd defend like this if someone trash talked it?
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Congrats to Chris Matz & Tony Marasco - winners of today's lunchtime game tournament! Today's game of choice: Tricky Towers!
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💖💖💖💖💖💖💖.💖💖 💖💖.💖💖 💖💖.💖💖 💖💖.💖💖 💖💖.💖💖 💖💖.💖💖💖💖💖💖.💖💖 .💖💖.💖💖lay a video game right now.
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In October, the Solemates team won Cold Iron's first step competition! This week, they celebrated with their chosen adventure: An escape room at @OmescapeSF! Congrats, guys!
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We did a lot of very serious and important team-building activities during the Cold Iron Vegas trip, such as:. Carnival water gun shoot-out competition with giant stuffed monkey plushie prize
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We took a field-trip to see Spider-Man on Friday! Thanks for the great experience, @PruneyardCinema! #RoughDayAtTheOffice 😉
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Our trophy acquired acquired a new hair style during its stay on @_quackles' desk. Here it is awaiting its new home as the semi-finalists battle it out!
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Wanna learn about character & creature art from THE BEST OF THE BEST???. Our Senior Character Artist Ashley Stegon was part of an awesome @Gnomon_Workshop panel this past Friday alongside @colleen_sculpts + Amy Sharpe + Amanda Irani!.
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8 more days of our Step Competition! Winning team gets to go zip lining at @MountHermon, do an escape room at @OmescapeSF, or break lots of stuff at Break Stuff Bay Area. What would you choose?
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today I'm doing the Monday challenge. it's where I try to make it through Monday
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At our holiday party last weekend, Shalan & Chris won two tickets to see #Hamilton in SF! We're so glad you two had such a great time!
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The wait is over - we're ready to let you see what life is like here at Cold Iron Studios! Follow us on social to stay up to date!.
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@Brawlhalla @BlueMammoth @KoJaKitchen Congrats to our winners! 1st place goes to @_quackles & 2nd place to @Aosaravia!
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Here's Cold Iron Sr. Animator Nikita with her cute son. Happy #MothersDay to Nikita and all you gaming moms! #gamedev #womeningames
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Like if you would eat this.RT if you would force someone else to eat it.Ignore if you hate fun i guess
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We're going LIVE for #ExtraLife on 11/4!!. Join us for a day of gaming with @ExtraLife4Kids and help us hit our goal of raising $5k for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals!! 💚🎮.
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@Brawlhalla @BlueMammoth No tournament is complete without an absurd amount of food. Thanks @KoJaKitchen for a delicious lunch!
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👽Nicole Greicar/@KetchupHero👽. Role: Senior Character Technical Artist. Fav fictional alien: Mac from Earth Girls Are Easy
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👽Sharon Kotal👽. Role: Dev QA Senior Tester. Fav fictional alien: Frank (MIB) OR Goose (Captain Marvel)
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👽Ashley Stegon (stegoneggs on Insta!)👽. Role: Senior Character Artist. Fav fictional alien: Frieza OR The Alien Queen
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My New Year's resolution is to play my gaming backlog for real this time 💀.
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Congrats @_quackles on your newest addition! Just in time for #FathersDay! Welcome to the world, baby Rhys!
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if you're not playing the official Google Doodle customizable Jerry Lawson 82nd birthday tribute video game today then ARE YOU A REAL GAMER???
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May your holiday season be filled good friends, good food, and maybe a dinosaur or two. Happy Holidays from our 2019 Holiday Party!
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When we're not making games, we're playing them! What are YOU playing today to celebrate #NationalVideoGameDay?
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Happy Halloween from Cold Iron Studios! What are you dressed as today? 🎃
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Your job: Spreadsheets, coding, Zoom meetings . Our job: ARCHERY DODGEBALL AND CYBERPUNK BARCADE (but also spreadsheets and coding and Zoom meetings)
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