In episode 10 of the Epic Games Podcast, @Raczilla and @iFlak chat with Epic Games Lead Level Designer, Jim Brown. Jim talks about the Gears of War: Judgment campaign. Today we released two extend play videos from the campaign, and two from Gears of War: Judgment multiplayer modes, OverRun and Free For All. You can check out the videos HERE. In Episode 11 of the Podcast, Jim talks about Gears of War: Judgment’s mulitplayer modes and talks a bit [...]
The San Diego Comic-Con news continues this week as we reveal our plans for the Gears of War panel. We’ll have more news about exclusive swag and where you can play the new Gears of War: Judgment multiplayer mode OverRun, but until then, here are the details of the panel. Gears of War: Past, Present and Future San Diego Comic-Con Friday, July 13, 2012, 2:00p.m. – 3:00p.m., Room: 6BCF G4 TV Host and video game goddess, Morgan [...]
This #Gearsweekend Epic Games are having quite the explosive extravaganza by changing your shotgun will be replaced by a “Cluckshot”, but what’s a Cluckshot you ask? It’s a Boomshot that shoots chickens instead of rockets. This event will take place on this Thursday, same day as the Versus Booster Map Pack. “Thanksgibbing” will be played on King Of The Hill only. “While the “Versus Booster Map Pack” will unlock five new multiplayer battlegrounds for public matchmaking, those who purchase the “Horde [...]
In the final week of “Epictober” Epic Games, Inc have decided to give us Boomshots and Snipers as default load-out weapons in Gears of War 3. The Event starts on Friday 28th October and will last until Tuesday 1st November, the same day as the Horde Command Pack DLC and Rod Fergusson’s Live QA Stream. We’ve also been promised that on Monday & Tuesday there will be a “cosmetic surprise” and “Halloween Candy” in store! We at Gearsblog cant wait! [...]
Today Epic Games have announced the second Game Add-on for Gears of War 3, appropriately named “RAAM’s Shadow,”, the return of a few familiar faces and also a selection of new characters. This Add-on will precede the events of Gears 1. This Add-on will also include six new multiplayer characters, the chocolate weapon set and more achievements worth 250 gamerscore. “RAAM’s Shadow” is being released on December 13th for 1200 Microsoft points or free if you purchased the Season Pass. “RAAM’s [...]
We’re just 3 days from the release of Gears of War 3 and Epic Games have offered a refreshment of the timeline of Gears of War 3 to get you on the hype train! The timeline is well laid out and has plenty of details for Gearhead to examine. The timeline goes through characters, pendulum wars and emergence day. If you would like to save this image, right click on the image below, and go to save as, and you [...]
On the run up to the launch of Gears of War 3, GamingBolt have been doing Gears of War 3 swag giveaways that any gearhead would love. The swag consists of a Calibur11 Gears of War 3 Vault, Tritton Gears of War Headset and Throat Communicator and also a Thrashball Cole Plushie everyday until the launch of Gears of War 3. Anyone can participate for the Thrashball Cole Plushies but the items which involve shipping such as the Calibur11 Vault, headsets [...]
ComputerVideoGames.com (CVG) recently interviewed Mike Capps, Epic Games President the interview covered the development of Gears of War. In the interview he mentions he’s hopeful about the success of Gears of War 3. CVG asked the Epic Games President, If the additional development time translated into a better Gears of War 3? (referring to Gears 3 originally due to release in April then pushed back to September) “Wow, that’s a good question. Every one of these Gears took a different [...]
Epic Games, Executive Producer Rod Fergusson hosts another Live Stream on September 2nd(today), 05:30PM EST / 10:30PM UK time. During the Stream Rod will announcing what you need to do to unlock the “Chrome Weapons“. Be sure to comment on the official topic at Epic Games to be in with a chance of winning some Gears of War merchandise, the winner will be chosen at random at the end of the live stream. Just worked it out with @raczilla that [...]
As we know there is a lot of information our there on the interwebs and it is hard keeping up to date with the latest and most accurate information. At Gearsblog we’ve created “Tweets of The Week”, this topic will track all the latest Tweets from people at Epic Games/Gears of War Team in the run up to Gears 3 release on September 20th. Already this week we’ve seen Chrome Weapon Skins, Liquid Metal Weapons & Gears 3 Multiplayer [...]
As you know it’s only 22 days to the release of Gears of War 3, but today Epic Games and Microsoft have decided to use a system called a “Season Pass” for a variety of post-release DLC. A Season Pass is an all-new program that offers subscribers full digital access to the exclusive Liquid Metal weapons set and also the first four Add-ons released for Gears of War 3. “Adding hours of campaign and multiplayer mayhem, these game add-ons will [...]
Yesterday in Raleigh, Epic Games played “TH3 NSAN3Z” in the final version of Gears of War 3. If you don’t know who “TH3 NSAN3Z” are, they currently are the best MLG Gears team to date. The great thing about this event is they’re playing on the finalised game that will be released on September 20th. In this event they played 3 matches, unfortunately Team EPIC lost 3-0, this video features Chris Puckett(MLG commentator) Quinn Delhoyo from Epic Games as a commentator [...]
Rod Fergusson announced on his Twitter account that the Epic Games Team will be announcing how to unlock the Chrome Weapon Skins for Gears of War 3 in a Live Stream on Friday 2nd September. Just worked it out with @raczilla that I’ll do another Live Stream *next* Friday, revealing the achievements needed for Chrome weapons. – GearsViking (Rod Fergusson) We have also been teased that soon we will learn how to unlock the “Liquid Metal Skins” Liquid Metal Skin [...]
Check out this interview from GameTrailers TV with CliffyB he talks about the future of Gears of War, Zombie RAAM, lots of DLC in pipeline, RAAM as DLC, Hammer of Dawn in Gears 3 and all sorts of other stuff! We should mention that the video takes approximately 30 mins.
On the August 19th at Epic Games, Executive Producer Rod Fergusson announced to the world Gears of War 3 has gone gold. Rod made the announcement to a room filled of excited Epic Games staff, shortly after that, Dana Cowley brought out a cake which was a gift from Microsoft. “Gold” is an expression that is used in the gaming industry regularly to express that the game is finished and is ready to be shipped. Rod Fergusson alongside with the Design Director Cliff [...]
Tomorrow during my live stream, I will reveal what people with the Veteran Gear achievement in Gears 2 earn in Gears of War 3. – GearsViking (Rod Fergusson) The Executive Producer of the Gears of War franchise at Epic Games has tweeted that he’ll be revealing “What people with the Veteran Gear achievement in Gears 2 earn in Gears of War 3″. This has been much speculated by the Gears Community and comes up as a question on a previous [...]
Epic Games, Inc have announced that they will be launching a special edition of 12 Month Xbox Live, this edition will include a extra 2 months of XBL(14 months in total) and a Gears of War 3 Weapon Skin which will be redeemable on September 20th. Source: Esperino
Check out this brand new video we found on the Gears of War Facebook page, The video shows Marcus Fenix and the rest of the Delta Squad take on waves of Locust in this Gameplay Trailer Released by Epic Games, Inc. The Track featured in this video is “Gears of War” by Body Count. Update: Be sure to download Body Count – Gears Of War Single from iTunes and now available on Amazon.
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President – Phil Spencer was chatting with Official Xbox Magazine and announced that Gears of War 3 will be a blockbuster. “The thing about this E3, one of our key targets we want to hit is the blockbuster games that you want to play are on 360. The biggest platform exclusive franchise on any platform this year will be Gears of War.” Spencer went on to say. “If you look at how our 1st party franchises sell, [...]
