{"id":7689,"date":"2026-05-09T18:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/highly-anticipated-aliens-ps5-game-gets-release-date-window\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:57:05","slug":"highly-anticipated-aliens-ps5-game-gets-release-date-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/highly-anticipated-aliens-ps5-game-gets-release-date-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Highly Anticipated Aliens PS5 Game Gets Release Date Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Cold Iron and Daybreak Games have officially announced and revealed <strong>Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2<\/strong>, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2021 third-person co-op shooter, with an exciting trailer. The upcoming Aliens video game will let players squad up in teams of four, a change from the first game, to coordinate and eliminate <strong>Xenomorphs.<\/strong> The game was accidentally revealed ahead of its official announcement last year.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the new trailer for Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 below (watch more trailers):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-when-is-the-release-date-window-for-the-new-aliens-video-game\">When is the release date window for the new Aliens video game?<\/h2>\n<p>Released as part of IGN First\u2019s May cover story, the new trailer confirms that Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 will arrive on PC and consoles in Summer 2026, although an exact release date has yet to be announced. It opens with a voice transmission from Dr. Lily Pierce on planet LV-558, the sequel\u2019s primary setting. From there, fans get tiny glimpses of the gameplay, filled with explosions, guns, new gadgets, and, of course, plenty of aliens to shoot at.<\/p>\n<p>Developer Daybreak Games has confirmed that Fireteam Elite 2 will support full crossplay between PC and consoles. Players can also choose a new customizable class, called the Specialist, which can mix and match abilities from other classes. At launch, the sequel will include a Horde mode with its own maps, where players can win increasingly valuable rewards while trying to survive the enemy onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>The original Fireteam Elite was a standalone sequel to the first Alien trilogy, following the Colonial Marines of the USS Endeavor dispatched to planet LV-895 to rid it of hostile Xenomorphs. Following its release in 2021, the original game continued to get updates, including new maps, classes, and skins, along with a Nintendo Switch port. The developers haven\u2019t announced if the sequel will arrive on the Nintendo Switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is being developed for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally reported by Rahul Majmdar at ComingSoon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold Iron and Daybreak Games have officially announced and revealed Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the 2021 third-person co-op shooter, with an exciting trailer. The upcoming Aliens video game will let players squad up in teams of four, a change from the first game, to coordinate and eliminate Xenomorphs. The game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7394,3970,503,206,5120,309,541,6069],"class_list":{"0":"post-7689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upcoming-games","8":"tag-aliens","9":"tag-anticipated","10":"tag-date","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-highly","13":"tag-ps5","14":"tag-release","15":"tag-window"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}