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If you preorder Gears of War: Judgment at Walmart.com, you’ll not only get: Gears of War: Judgment for the Xbox 360, a bonus* Preorder Exclusive Classic Hammerburst and bonus Gears of War 1 downloadable version, you’ll also receive your choice of Gears of War 2 or Gears of War 3, for free! Gears of War: Judgment launches on March 19th in the US and a worldwide demo for Xbox Live Gold Subscribers will be available the same day. Source: Epic Games [...]

Posted by CI2IMS0N On Feb - 11 - 2013 Add Comments READ FULL POST

We covered the “Horde Command Pack, Alpha Playlist” and Double XP in Gears of War 3. Epic Games have decided to celebrate Emergence Day by giving Gears 2 players Twenty times the Experience Points (x20 XP). The XP event is Live now on Gears of War 2 and will run to 14th November at 9:00AM EST/ 2:00PM UK time.

Posted by CI2IMSON On Nov - 7 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

We’re just a handful of days away from Gears of War 3 launch and Microsoft have started a sale on downloadable content for Gears of War. Here’s a  list of the items on sale: Add-ons • “Gears of War 2: All Fronts Collection” - 800 - 400 MSP “This content pack features all 19 downloadable Gears 2 multiplayer maps and a bonus deleted single-player chapter, “Road to Ruin,” from the Gears of War 2 campaign. For multiplayer fans, this pack brings together the [...]

Posted by CI2IMS0N On Sep - 14 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

GCON have announced their final Gears 2 community event, as usual it’ll have big name sponsors and community hosts from around the world for the finale of Gears of War 2. This community event will be Guardian only, because it is the end of this game mode, and sadly we won’t see it return in Gears of War 3. Make sure you attend on the September 10th to celebrate the end of an era, and the beginning of another amazing [...]

Posted by CI2IMS0N On Sep - 8 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

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 [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Sep - 5 - 2011 2 Comments READ FULL POST

If you know Anthony Carmine, Benjamin Carmine or Clayton Carmine, one man is the voice behind all of these COG Soldiers – Michael Gough. A true heavy hitter in the world of Voice acting Gough has done it all from Winnie the Pooh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles then moving on to video games such as Osmund Sadler and what we all relate him to, the Carmine brothers. In this interview he talks about himself, his favourite characters and Gears of [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Aug - 29 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

On Rods last broadcast he announced about they’ll be doing XP events all the way up to the release of Gears of War 3. This weekend we see the first of this series of events. The aim is to help as many people as possible get there wings before the much anticipated – Gears 3 launch.  The first event “Tickers by the Boatload” is upon us running from 19th August – 22nd August starting at 9:00AM EST / 2:00PM UK [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Aug - 26 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

Mike Capps, Epic Games, Inc President was chatting to IncGamers during GamesCom. Capps was asked If they addressed the balancing issues with weapons in Gears of War 3? Capps replied “In all honesty it was difficult for us to alter the balance away from that style because the most vocal players in our community really wanted to play in that way. They were very upset when we hinted we might be moving away from that. In Gears 3 the experienced players [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Aug - 24 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

  You may remember at the end of the Live Stream with Rod Fergusson(Veteran Gear Unlock Stream) mentioned that Gears of War 1 and Gears of War 2 will be for sale Digitally in several countries: USA, Canada & United Kingdom. Q: How are Epic Games helping people out to get the Veteran Gear Achievement? A: On August 23rd Gears Of War 1/Gears Of War 2 can download these games “Digitally” on a sale price for 3 regions United States, [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Aug - 24 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

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 [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Aug - 12 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

That’s right today is the day we announce just how you can win a Gold Lancer for Gears of War 2 & the up-and-coming Gears of War 3. These prizes have been kindly donated by iFlak. We are holding 2 competitions both will run until August 17th! See below for information on how to enter the competition Follow @GearsBlog on Twitter and simply use the #GBGiveaway hashtag in the next 7 days and you will automatically be in with a [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Aug - 9 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

Event Details: 20x XP Horde Enemies with mixed up guns 21st July – 25th July 2011 (9AM EST / approx 5:30 UK time) 20x XP Horde Enemies with mixed up guns 21 July 2011 – 25 July 2011. (Starting at 9am EST) Twitter Sources: @GearsViking Hey man, any news on the comic con event? Just no-one really seems to be asking or anything, Would love to do the thread again! (-RavensThoughts) @GearsViking @EpicCog @xCherLeighx hey guys, just wondering if there [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Jul - 15 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

  Gears Weekend That’s Right folks its a crazy weekend for Gearheads this weekend, all sorts of stuff going on whether your coming online to gain 21x the XP in multiplayer matches/Horde. If thats not what your into GCON are running Community Night 4.1: Season Taster Session. Maybe neither of these appeal to you and you fancy some Gears of War Merchandise (*cough* Cole *cough* Plushies *cough* and more!). All you have to do is when Tweeting use the hashtag(#) [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Jul - 1 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

The 4th of July Event @RavensThoughts @gearsviking Last years 4th of July event was awesome! Doing one this year would be fun too. Rod? What do you think? – xCherLeighx @xCherLeighx @RavensThoughts Yeah, just need to set it up. @EpicCog may kill me though in the process Boomers and Tickers for 4th? – GearsViking Ok, @EpicCog and I have worked out the Fourth of July Gears 2 Event. Loosely based on what @GearsViking @RavensThoughts suggested. – GearsViking Hah! I meant [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Jun - 28 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST

The Explosive E3 Event “Hey @EpicCog, don’t forget to turn on the 30X xp event and Horde madness while I’m gone!” – GearsViking (Rod Fergusson) To mark the launch of E3 this year the Epic Games team are doing “The Explosive E3 Event” It is running from Monday 6th June – Monday 13th June. During this anyone playing Gears 2 Multiplayer online or Horde will get 30x the normal XP, double the ammo for all explosive weapons and Boomers gone [...]

Posted by CI2IMSON On Jun - 6 - 2011 Add Comments READ FULL POST