The new Lost Relics DLC for Gears of War: Judgment is out today, June 18th for VIP members! The rest of Gears fans can expect to get their hands on Lost Relics the following Tuesday, June 25th. This DLC includes four new maps, new weapon and armor skins, as well as the new mode Breakthrough. Read up on all the new maps and study the flythrough videos below to get the competitive edge over your enemies. CHECKOUT – Checkout’s combat [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s the first look at “Island”, which is a military facility off the coast of Downtown Halvo, at a first glance this map looks like it’s priority is OverRun, but it may have some changes for competitve versus gamemodes to balance gameplay. Source: IGN
Here’s the first look at “Gondola”, obviously named that due to the Gondola’s that take you from one side of the map to the other, it seems to be a mountainous landscape, with plenty of vantage points and featuring special weapons like the Booshka and Sniper. Source: IGN
“Microsoft and Epic Games today unveiled a new “Gears of War: Judgment” video entitled “The Guts of Gears Multiplayer” giving fans a preview of the highly anticipated multiplayer modes in Judgment. Like the first “Guts” video, part two is narrated by none other than Lt. Damon Baird.” “Pre-order your copy of “Gears of War: Judgment” online or at any GameStop location nationwide to get exclusive three-day early access to the most anticipated blockbuster of this spring beginning March 15; [...]
Pre-order your copy of “Gears of War: Judgment” online or at any GameStop location nationwide to get exclusive three-day early access to the most anticipated blockbuster of this spring beginning March 15; demo available publicly to all Xbox LIVE Gold members on March 19 GameStop, Microsoft and Epic Games are thrilled to announce that “Gears of War” fans across the United States will be able to join the fight against the Locust Horde early through the signature new multiplayer mode in [...]
Time to deliver new gameplay of Gears of War Judgment, extended videos of Campaign, OverRun and Free-For-All Multiplayer, look below for details. Extended gameplay of Gears of War: Judgment’s single play campaign in the “Museum” area. Next up, we explore the “Mansion” area of the Judgment campaign We take a look at OverRun’s “Junkyard” map. Last but not least, we step back into the campaign and “Museum.” Extended gameplay of Gears of War: Judgment’s Free For All mode on [...]
Rod Fergusson announced DLC #4, “Forces of Nature”, on GTTV. This DLC consists of 5 maps, 3 new maps; Aftermath, Artillery and Cove, two fan favourites brought back which are Jacinto and Raven Down. The reason behind the title “Forces of Nature” is because each map will have an environmental effect of its own such as fog, snow and tsunamis. There are also special weapons hidden in the maps during Horde and Beast mode called “Elemental Cleavers.” The cleavers [...]
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 [...]
On October 28th Quinn DelHoyo made a thread on the Epic Games Forum discussing the Hammerburst which have led to recent changes in the rifle thanks to the members of the Epic Games Forum for suggesting the ideas to add more focus to the rifle. The chances they’ve made are: “1. Long range damage increased. The Hammerburst used to lose damage past a certain distance, but no longer does. This should help it excel at its intended role as a long range [...]
Torque Bow Tag Event (14/10/11-17/10/11) Last week was the first week of “Epictober” where we seen Epic Games, Inc hold a “Big-Head Event”(more information about this at the bottom). This week Gears of War 3 gamers are in for a treat as this weekend to Monday there is a “Torque Bow Tag” event. The event is live right now and just like the last event, just go to the “Torque Bow Tag” playlist under the Versus menu on Gears of [...]
There is a lot of information our there on the internet 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. This week has confirmed that there will be No Midnight Madness Bonus, Epic/Limited Edition Games, Onyx weapon Skins and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
According to NeoGAF Gears of War 3 has been leaked online, all over YouTube & Torrent sites. It shows content ranging from the entire Campaign Mode, Multiplayer options – However “Phloxy” does mention that the game “Buggy as hell, but it seems like it’s all there”. If you don’t want any Spoilers we would suggest staying away from the videos on YouTube and wait for the full game coming on September 20, exclusively to Xbox Live. Dana Cowley, from Epic [...]
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(#) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Update 30/09/10: Rod confirmed multiplayer for the end of next week: Yes I fully expect the MP footage to be available by the end of next week… -Rod Fergusson “Yes, the 30x XP event I promised everyone for Raam beating Breen is going to be on Halloween. Plus some horrific changes to Horde.” -Rod Fergusson Update 10/10/10 More information confirming a “Chainsaw Massacre Horde Event” “And then we go crazy from the 29th to 1st with our 31x multiplier and [...]
The developers at Epic Games are celebrating the PAX 2010 event in style by rewarding Gears of War players with 25x the normal XP. The action packed event will run for a total of 4 days from Sept 4th until Sept 8th(EST). The details of this event are listed below: The event will run from Friday morning, Sept 4th till Tuesday morning, Sept 8th (Eastern time) Double experience for all Horde games and Public multiplayer games Winning team gets a [...]
Xbox Live gamers have been voting in there thousands whether Carmine should live or die. On July 29th avatar T-shirts were available which read “Carmine Must Die” or “Save Carmine”. Depending on which piece of avatar gear you bought would cast a vote whether he lives or dies. There has been countless polls carried out on the internet about Carmines future but today on the 18th August we can reveal that the official word is that Save Carmine is currently [...]
