QuickCheck: Was a video game derailed by a one-letter typo?


IT seems like one of those urban legends, something too funny or silly to be true; that the AI of the titular acid-blooded aliens in the 2013 game “Aliens: Colonial Marines” was derailed by a one-letter typo in a single line of code.

And to add to the story, it has also been claimed that the typo in the once-touted officially recognised sequel to the 1986 James Cameron blockbuster “Aliens” was in fact discovered by dedicated fans of the Aliens franchise and not by the game's developers

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