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Be sure to join us tonight at 5:00 PM EST for a live stream with the Gears of War: Judgment development team and @Raczilla on Twitch.tv/EpicGames. Tonight’s topics will include the Gears of War: Judgment Lost Relics DLC, your comments and more! Source: Epic Games Community

  The Gears of War: Judgment DLC “Lost Relics” is coming in June! The pack will include four new maps, a new single objective gametype, new armor and new weapon skins. Checkout is returning in this DLC, plus 3 new maps, Lost City, Museum and Ward(OverRun map) BREAKTHROUGH – Breakthrough is a single-objective gametype that features two teams with very distinct roles: one team has possession of a flag that they must deliver to a set location; the opposing team has [...]

May 13 – May 20, 2013 Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen and some are returning for another week! Each will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags. You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla, Cher and Fl4k. [...]

Maxim has sponsored another Gears of War: Judgment DLC, this time delivering a map called “Dreadnought”, which is a OverRun map, it is free right now for a limited time, so go download it now! “In the months immediately following Emergence Day, the COG managed to capture some Locust Berserkers.  Thinking that a ship at sea would be safe from an underground enemy, the COG decided to transport their prize to a secure research facility via the CNV Pomeroy. Little [...]

Be sure to join us tonight at 5:00 PM EST for a live stream with the Gears of War: Judgment development team on Twitch.tv/EpicGames. Tonight’s topics will cover some of your questions, the Gears of War: Judgment test server and more! Source: Epic Games Community

Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen and some are returning for another week! Each will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags. You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla, Cher and Fl4k. Malcolm – UK – Gamertag: Mad Dog Malcs Louisa [...]

Massive updates that should go live soon, possibly as early as of 9AM EST today. – Dual weapon loadout will be propegated to all playlists with the exception of FFA. – Stim grenades will be removed from all playlists with the exception of FFA. – Torquebow charge time reduced back to Gears 3 Active levels (from 2 seconds down to 1.5 seconds). – Prize boxes updated in the next TU to deliver all content before doling out XP (instead of [...]

“Be sure to join us tonight at 5:00 PM EST for a live stream with the Gears of War: Judgment development team on Twitch.tv/EpicGames. Tonight’s topics will cover some of your questions and the Gears of War: Judgment community wishlist compiled by @FatalStryke.” Source: Epic Games Community

Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen! Each will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags. You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla, Cher and Fl4k. We haven’t heard back yet from our US choices, so we’ll let last week’s picks [...]

Epic Games have been running a test server which has been active since April 22nd, just some of thing’s they’ve been doing is “classic loadout”, which allows the player to spawn with 2 primary weapons, removals of stim grenades and double XP for all games played in this playlist, click here for the full details. This playlist is run by the communities feedback, currently there’s four new hot topics listed below, click on each to give your opinion on what [...]

“Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen! Each will will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags. You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla, Cher and Fl4k. Alexander – Australia – Gamertag: Ghostofdelta2 Danilo– Italy – Gamertag: NeDan89 Greg – Canada – Gamertag: LambentHammerb [...]

The latest expansion for Gears of war: Judgment, the Call to Arms Map Pack, is coming to VIP Season Pass holders on Tuesday, April 23 and will be available worldwide April 30. The Call to Arms Map Pack brings players three new multiplayer maps, a brand-new mode called “Master at Arms” and six armour and gun skins for customizing your characters and weapons. New Maps: Terminal Terminal: (OverRun) The speed and ferocity of the Locust invasion took Halvo Bay completely by surprise.  Residents scrambled [...]

Be sure to join us tonight at 5:00 PM EST for a live stream with the Gears of War: Judgment development team. If you have any questions you’d like to ask the devs, post them below in the comments! You can watch the stream April 18 at 5:00 PM EST on Twitch.tv/EpicGames Source: Epic Games Community

Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen! Each will will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags. You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla, Cher and Fl4k. Alexander – Australia – Gamertag: Ghostofdelta2 Danilo– Italy – Gamertag: NeDan89 Andrew – Canada – Gamertag: Parasidian [...]

Be sure to join the stream today at 5:00 PM EST or 10PM GMT(UK) for a live stream with @Raczilla and the Gears of War: Judgment development team. If you have any questions you’d like Raczilla to ask the devs, post them below in the comments! You can watch the stream April 11 at 5:00 PM EST onTwitch.tv/EpicGames. Source: Epic Games Community

“Join Revolution Gaming this week for a Gears of War: Judgment Free-For-All Tournament, April 20th and 21st. The first place winner will receive an MLG Astro A40 headset! Head over to http://rg_live2.eventbrite.com/ for more information and to sign up. After signing up, contact Joe at jkruty@hotmail.com to be entered in the bracket. You can also contact him via TWITTER. Good luck if you enter!” Source: Epic Games Community

  “Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen! The first group are members of theEpic Games Forum moderation team who are back for another week and three of our valued forum members, Parasidian, ICookieCLOWN and king-mark. Next are Connor, a member of the competitive community who has been playing Gears of War since the [...]

  Update Notes and statistics “So, it appears that one or two of you have noticed a couple changes to the game recently.  I’m long winded, but I’ll get to a list of changes below. Skip ahead if you’re impatient, it won’t hurt my feelings… We hit this strange point of convergance where we had people off at GDC, and out for the Holiday weekend, and our DLC hit earlier than expected, and… anyway, enough excuses. It was a great opportunity [...]

“Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. Our new group has been chosen!  The first group are members of theEpic Games Forum moderation team who are back for another week one of our valued community members from Brazil. Rounding out the group is a favorite Community artist, Alvaro in Chile. We also have two UK Reapers signed up and we’ll [...]

DLC Update The first DLC pack and Title Update for Gears of War: Judgment is dropping a few days early. Today, (Friday, March 29) in fact! The pack includes a new multiplayer map called Haven and the fan-favorite mode Execution. We have created special playlists for Haven and Execution which will feature 2 XP for a limited time. VIP pass holders will receive 3 XP within that playlist for a limited time. IMPORTANT: You must download the DLC pack directly [...]

“Many of you have been asking who the voice actors are for the Gears of War: Judgment characters. In this installment of the Gears of War series, Baird, brought to life by Fred Tatasciore, takes center stage. Fighting beside him is his friend Augustus Cole, voiced by Lester Speight. Rounding out Kilo Squad is Paduk (Chris Cox) and Sofia (Ali Hillis). Be sure to check out “Gear Talk” for question and answer sessions with Cole and Baird! Learn more about [...]

Two weeks ago, we posted about a new character skin in Gears of War: Judgment, the Gears Reaper. The Reaper has special abilities and physics so he’s not very easy to kill. If you do manage though, you will be rewarded with the Reaper medal and custom weapon skin! Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. We have chosen [...]

ArCtyC and Skyllus are at it again – making fun informative tutorial videos to help the Gears of War community. In this video, Skyllus walks, er ticks us through some of the new Locust mechanics in the Gears of War: Judgment mode, OverRun. The Ticker is one of the most valuable classes in your attack against the COG’s defensive. From ArCtyC: Welcome to the first episode of our Gears of War Judgment Lesson Series for Overun. I’m Skyllus and I’ll [...]

“Looking to unlock some of the awesome new weapon and character skins the game?  Look no further because this video has all the info you’ll need to prepare for launch tonight, including all of the unlocks for purchasing the VIP Season Pass!”   Video   Guide to Unlockables   Pre-Order Bonuses   Classic Hammerburst Comes with every Pre-Order.     Alex Brand Available From Microsoft Store(US) or ShopTo(UK) Young Marcus Available From GameStop(US) or GAME(UK) Lambent Skin Available from GameStop [...]

“This week’s special event in Gears of War: Judgment is Breechshot and Spot Grenade only in Domination. You will receive a ribbon if you participate in the event. Be sure to try and find the Gears Reaper! Epic developers will be using the Gears Reaper skin. If you kill them, you’ll get a special medal and weapon skin! Also, look for these gamertags – these players will be wearing the Reaper skin. EpicGowJ GearsReaper2 GearsReaper3 Raczilla Fl4k Click here for more information [...]

IGN – 9.2 “Gears of War: Judgment is a fantastic prequel with superb combat, fun multiplayer, and a meaningful story.” Gametrailers – 81 Gears of War: Judgment tells the story of a squad that refuses to do things by the book, but while it risks a certain amount of backlash from fans that balk at its minor changes, this soldier is content to operate within established parameters and focus on doing his job, one twenty-minute-or-so mission at a time. It’s solid, it’s capable, it [...]

“Judgment is almost upon us and Gears Community Online Network (Gearscon) is having a#RiseofJudgment Launch event for the Gears of War Community. Epic Games will be providing Gears of War: Judgment character and weapon skin codes. Be sure to check here for more info!” Source: Epic Games Community

  “Meet Baird, Sofia, Paduk and Cole, the members of Kilo Squad. Baird: The smart-ass engineer of the squad. He may be a pain at times, but you’ll be happy to see his sentry go into action if you’re in battle Cole: Eternal optimist and cheerleader. Happy to hand you some ammo if you run out. Sofia: Halvo Bay native and war correspondent, Sofia believes in fighting wars ethically. Paduk: Former enemy of the COG, this Gorasnayan fought against the [...]

  Join Will Kinsler (@Raczilla) this Wednesday night March 13 at 2:00 PM PT and 5:00 PM ET for an OverRun live stream with Epic GamesProducer Alan Van Slyke (@AlanVanSlyke) and Xbox LIVE’s Director of Programming Major Nelson, aka Larry Hryb. Alan and Larry will talk about OverRun tactics and play a few games of Gears of War: Judgment’s OverRun mode. At around 6:30, Alan and Larry will be stepping out and Senior Gameplay programmer Pete Knepley (@PeteNub) will be stepping in. Pete will [...]

“This weekend during SXSW, Epic Games PR Manager Wes Phillips revealed the Epic Reaper character from Gears of War: Judgment during a panel with Sr. Producer Chris Wynn and Sr. Gameplay Programmer Pete Knepley. Each week, one member from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community. The Epic Reaper has special abilities and physics so he’s not very easy to kill. If you do manage though, you [...]

Check out the official Gears of War: Judgment Launch Trailer! Emergence Day just unleashed hell upon the people of Sera. A young Lieutenant named Damon Baird and his team, Kilo Squad, must square off against an indomitable locust villain to save a city and its people, and no rules or orders are going to stand in their way. Pre-order Gears of War: Judgment, the most intense Gears game yet, and pick it up in stores starting March 19, 2013. ESRB RATING: MATURE [...]

“An infrared tripwire beam and high explosive darts will have you looking around corners and watching where you step. Let’s take a look at the Tripwire Crossbow. This deadly weapon is sure to be a fan favorite.” Source: Epic Games Community

“The Alexiy Desipich Memorial Library is not a library in the traditional sense, but rather an archive of important documents surrounding his life, career, and personal interests. An avid historian, politician, and philosopher, Desipich is most remembered as the father and creator of the Austere Canon, the basis for the Coalition of Ordered Governments, which was shaped around eight guiding principles: Order, Diligence, Purity, Labor, Honor, Loyalty, Faith, and Humility.” Source: Xbox Live Site  

  “When the Locust invaded Halvo Bay, they attacked from all sides. A patrol of COG soldiers noticed the mass of Kryll pouring from the Angry Bear Waste Disposal yard and what followed was one of the strangest battles of the war; in order to save the city, the COG found themselves defending (of all places) a junkyard. This lone patrol had to hold the Locust at bay until an HOD satellite could be aligned to seal off the E [...]

“UK gamers were invited to play Gears of War: Judgment early at the UK community event. Shaun Akerman aka ShaunyPwns from GCON and Alex “RNX FREWZ” Frewin from GOWForum.net and Aarron Ash aka Yamimash were among the gamers asked to attend. See what they and the other attendees had to say about their first hands-on with Gears of War: Judgment.” Source: Epic Games Community

“Bring the new season to life on Xbox LIVE for your chance at a great prize! Just play a multiplayer session of Gears of War 3 or download HBO GO on Xbox 360 to enter for your chance to win one of five custom Xbox 360 consoles. Five lucky winners will each score one custom Xbox 360 prize console. For all the details on the Swagfest Sweepstakes visit www.xbox.com/swagfest or check out the Official Rules.” Source: Epic Games Community

“We’re giving away one large Gears of War: Judgment “Chicks Dig the Baird” t-shirt in honor of the shirt being on sale at Hot Topic! There are several ways to qualify and each one counts for an entry – so the more you complete the more chances to win. The giveaway is open now and will run through Friday, March 8th. Click here to use the widget and enter!”   Source: Epic Games Community

  “Be sure to grab the Gears of War: Judgment Collector’s Edition Strategy Guide by BradyGames! Not only will you learn strategies for working through the campaign and playing multiplayer, you’ll also receive an exclusive “Big Game” weapon skin! This guide will bring you comprehensive multiplayer coverage and will help you master every game mode, including the addictive new OverRun class-based experience. Not only that but it also includes: Detailed Multiplayer and Single-Player Maps: We depict every area of the game by pinpointing [...]

  The war for Sera ignites on March 19 with the highly anticipated release of “Gears of War: Judgment.” The VIP Season Pass for “Judgment” will be available at launch for 1600 Microsoft points, providing players with a more than 20 percent discount across a broad range of content, including six multiplayer maps, two new modes and nine exclusive unlocks. The VIP Season Pass is the only way you can score a permanent double XP boost as well as a [...]

  “Microsoft, Epic Games and MAXIM are delivering even more adrenaline-fueled action to “Gears” fans with the upcoming post-launch release of two free, MAXIM-sponsored multiplayer maps – Haven and Capitol – as well as Execution Mode. In Execution mode, the objective of each team is to kill all members of the enemy team before the time limit runs out. The catch? Unless hit with a one-shot kill weapon like the Booshka, players go into a “Down But Not Out” state and will [...]