Posts with tag Gears of War
Posted Jul 17th 2007 10:00AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War
We thought we heard the extent of how far
Gears of War was willing to
stray from its Xbox 360 roots, but now we're hearing about an even further departure. In an interview with Game Head's Geoff Keighley, Mark Rein talked up
Unreal Tournament 3 and
Gears of War and accidentally let the news slip that both games were headed to the Mac platform. Rein confirmed
Gears' Mac-bound status when answering Keighley stating that "
yes, Gears is going to come to the Mac and so is UT". The news was not followed by a release date or how far in development the Mac versions are.
Anyone willing to bet that
Gears Mac will have even more content than
Gears PC all of which won't be available to 360 owners? Anyone? Nobody? Shucks ...
Posted Jul 13th 2007 12:30PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War, E3
The Advanced Media Network sat down with Epic's Mark Rein and Cliffy B to chat about their big E3 announcements and learned some sad news about the new
Gears of War PC content. When questioned about whether or not the new campaign missions or multiplayer maps announced for the PC version would be headed to the Xbox 360, Rein said it was "
unlikely [that] we will bring that content to 360". Cliffy B further emphasized their doubt by stating that "
if we didn't have any sort of exclusive on the PC, why would people buy the PC version?". The Epic crew explained that bringing the PC content over to the 360 would be an extremely time consuming task and that they're currently focused on other projects like
Unreal Tournament 3.
Being the
Gears fan that I am it's hard to hear that new, exciting multiplayer AND campaign content will be available, but not for 360 owners. And no, there's no way I'm personally buying a beefy computer to run
Gears of War PC just to experience the new content. No matter how you slice the news it sucks for 360 owners and
Gears enthusiasts ... it's simple as that. Now, I'm going to go cry myself to sleep.
[Thanks, Jason S]
Posted Jul 6th 2007 8:35PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War
Looks like someone made a boo boo. Those silly cats over at GameVideos.com posted a video entitled "
Gears of War PC 'E3 Action' montage" and quickly pulled it. But fret not fanboys, because Quellex saved the video and posted it on YouTube for everyone to enjoy. But before you take a look at this leaked
Gears PC montage be warned that it may make your inner fanboy scream with anger and disgust. Why? Because the video showcases what looks to be not only new multiplayer maps and additional campaign missions, but it also showcases a boss battle with a Brumak. Yup, that same Brumak that didn't make it into the 360 version of
Gears. Hopefully there's more to this story that'll come out of E3, something along the lines of all the new additional PC content being available for free to Xbox 360 owners. Otherwise we shun you Epic and your PC content ... we want to fight Brumaks too!
Update 1: We've removed our link to the YouTube video at GameVideos.com's request, but now that the
giant cat Brumak's out of the bag, it's gonna be awfully tough to get him back in.
[Via NeoGAF]
Posted Jul 6th 2007 4:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Fan stuff
Posted Jul 6th 2007 11:45AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War
Gears fanboys will be excited to know that the sweet, sweet sounds of our beloved
Gears of War will soon be lovingly lasered onto a piece of media plastic. The official
Gears of War Soundtrack was announced yesterday and will hit major retailers and be available online July 31st. The CD will feature 28 musical tracks that will chronologically take listeners through
Gears' campaign and feature the Northwest Symphonia orchestra. Think of the soundtrack as a musical version of the whole "destroyed beauty" motif. Complete list of all 28 tracks are viewable after the break including our favorites "I Will Kryll You" and "Running With Boomers".
Continue reading Gears of War soundtrack drops July 31st
Posted Jul 2nd 2007 3:00PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Contests and Giveaways
Our
Gears of War Modeling Book Contest has come to an end and we had some talented folks send in some great Locust creations. Not only did we have some great entries, but we also received entries that weren't really entries. Looking in our inbox we received emails from out of the country (this is a US only contest), entries that didn't include any attached artwork, and entries that were out of the country AND didn't include artwork. Those emails made us laugh and exercise our "delete email" finger. But, in the end, we came away satisfied with the creations our fellow fanboys submitted. So, we bet you are wondering which three entries were chosen to win a copy of Ballistic Publishing's
d'artiste: Character Modeling 2, what the Locust creations look like, and if Epic Games will be using the winning designs in the
Gears of War sequel. Well, the answers to all those questions and more are posted after the break. Click along and come join our Locust art gallery fun.
Continue reading Fanswag: Gears of War Modeling Book Winners
Posted Jun 29th 2007 4:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Contests and Giveaways
Did you know we're
giving away three hardcover copies of Ballistic Publishing's
d'artiste: Character Modeling 2 that feature amazing
Gears of War artwork and are valued at over $50 a piece? You did huh? Well, quite being so lazy and send in your locust artwork already! Remember, all you have to do to win a copy is create a new, never before seen Locust creature and send it to us in .jpg format. But you better hurry, because the contest ends July 2nd when we'll be picking our favorite entries who'll win a copy of the modeling book. Complete list of contest rules, details and how to enter are available on the
contest page. Run along now and get creative!
Posted Jun 19th 2007 12:45PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War
It was
rumored, but ultimately the E3
Gears of War sequel announcement was just that ... a rumor. Beyond Unreal contacted Mark Rein about the possibility that a
Gears of War sequel would be announced at this year's E3 and his response was somewhere along the lines of no. "
We are not announcing a sequel to Gears of War at E3 this year" Rein responded and reinforced their commitment to
Gears of War's DLC by stating that "
we're still working on the first one".
As fans of the
Gears franchise we're more than fine with no new news at E3. Microsoft's E3 spiel will more than likely be about
Halo 3 and other third party titles, so
Gears news really isn't necessary. So Epic, you just take your time and put together one of the most rockin'
Gears of War 2 announcement trailers ever and take comfort in knowing that you have the support of at least one blogger around these parts.
Posted Jun 14th 2007 12:00PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War
The
Gears of War auto update rolled out earlier this morning implementing an updated roadie run (third time's the charm), general maintenance and our favorite ... new achievements. The eight new
Gears achievements are wrapped up in the newish content all achievable either by playing the Annex gametype or by playing in the new Hidden Fronts maps (which cost 800 Microsoft points, but will be free in September). Our favorites? Based strictly on their names we love the
300 reference in "THIS! IS! ANNEX!", the nubness of "Nub Pwn3r", and "All That Juice" ... because it made us chuckle. But we're sure we'll achieve "You Down With E.P.I.C?" first, because it looks to be the easiest. Complete description of all eight new achievements is viewable after the break. Annex ... here we come.
Continue reading New Gears of War achievements rundown
Posted Jun 13th 2007 9:30AM by David Dreger
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Multiplayer, Gears of War
Major Nelson gives word that
Gears of War's upcoming title update will be available at 2:00 AM
GMT PDT, June 14th.
Technically, that's still today in North American timezones. Either way, the update will have 8 new
Achievements with a combined worth of 250 Gamerscore, relating to the
Hidden Fronts map pack and the new
Annex gametype. It also will refine the Roadie Run (again), and fix some exploits in the multiplayer. If you're dropped
Gears for some other titles, will this draw you back in?
Posted Jun 6th 2007 8:30AM by David Dreger
Filed under: News, Xbox Live
This week's
Live Top Ten shows a trend that will continue on
through to the 10th. The
Halo 3 Beta is being played a lot, by way of
our actions Crackdown. Not enough to knock Gears of War of its top spot, but certainly enough to give the retail game second, and the beta in accesses in third. Of course, there is more on the list worth noting other than those three worth mentioning, such as the
DiRT demo, or the
free XBLA title,
Aegis Wing. Full list can be found after the break, or you can just go back to playing the beta. We'll encourage you in
your habit.
Continue reading Live Top Ten: Betacular
Posted Jun 1st 2007 10:30AM by Richard Mitchell
Filed under: News, Gears of War
Besides eating and sleeping (and the dreaded "working"), you have to do
something between gaming sessions. What better way to utilize this dead space than to read books
about video games? If
Gears of War is your thing, you're in luck, because It looks like a
Gears of War book is in the works. We've found it listed at several retailers, including Wal-Mart. Assuming the listing is correct, the book is being written by game history guru, Steven Kent, most famous to gamers for his book,
The Ultimate History of Video Games. Clocking in at 352 pages, the book is slated for an August release from Del Ray. We're assuming the title,
Gears of War 1, is only a placeholder (it had better be).
What say you fanboys, are you in for some light summer reading? You know, explosions, eviscerations, that kind of thing.
[Via CVG]
Posted May 30th 2007 11:30AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News
In the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine Epic discusses everything
Unreal Tournament 3 and says that the game will look graphically better than
Gears of War. Epic says that the Unreal Engine 3 has been tweaked and improved for use on the 360 since
Gears launched and they're taking full advantage of its capabilities. Lead designer Steven Polge's even goes as far as to say that
UT3, "
it's Gears on crack. Cover is for wimps!". OXM also confirmed the game's vehicle count, talks about the control scheme, and confirmed that
UT3 will include four player campaign co-op over Xbox Live. But we're just excited to see how much prettier
UT3 can actually get, because
Gears already set the bar quite high.
[Thanks, DjDatz]
Posted May 25th 2007 1:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Gears of War
Epic's Mark Rein hopped on the official
Gears forums to tell everyone that they are working hard on the next auto update and that they've included a few unexpected goodies. Not only are they tweaking the
roadie run as promised, but they are adding some glorious NEW achievements to both the Annex gametype and the Hidden Fronts DLC, taking advantage of the new Gamerscore
policy. Rein also goes on to say that the update will take care of random exploits and general housekeeping, but that they do not have a firm release date for the update yet.
Brand new
Gears achievements simply rocks! It's something that I have been vocal about and to my surprise is going to happen. Now, for those of us who've earned the Seriously achievement, we can milk
Gears for even more Gamerscore points. Dreamy isn't it? It's almost as if the
Gears of War angels (Epic Games) have flown down from the heavens and blessed us once again.
[Via GamingTalkHQ]
Posted May 21st 2007 12:30PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News, Xbox Live
This week's Live Top Ten features the same big hitters that have been around for the past few months, but it is also sprinkled with a few demos that hit the Marketplace this past week. Both the
Forza 2 and
Area 51: Blacksite demos made it on the list at number two and four beating out games like
Rainbow Six Vegas and
Guitar Hero II. Also spurred into action was
Crackdown which jumped to the number three spot probably due to its
new content and the
Halo 3 beta fanfare. Speaking of the
Halo 3 beta, it didn't show up on the Live Top Ten list due to it being released later in the week, but you can nearly guarantee it'll be making an appearance next week. The complete top ten list is posted after the break for your viewing pleasure.
Continue reading Live Top Ten: It's the demos stupid
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