GameInformer recently did a podcast featuring Rod Fergusson, Director of Production at Epic Games on the upcoming title Gears of War Judgment. Rod answers questions from fans. Click here to listen to the podcast. “Gears of War fans are a vocal bunch. We turned to our readers for questions about the game to ask Epic’s director of production, Rod Fergusson. He swung by the Game Informer office to record a special Gears of War: Judgment podcast, where he answers the big questions about Judgment. [...]
Announcements “1 – RAAM’s Shadow info being read out can be found HERE! - 2am Pacific Time, 5am EST 2 – ‘Probably’ a multiplayer DLC, around January is a good time, ‘good’ ‘theory’ from Rod. 3A – Gearsmas – Different event everyday for 12 Days – Day 1, tomorrow Fortifications are free, Gift Boxes everywhere – Day 2, Friendly Fire In Horde Turned on! Day 3, Big Head Mutator on – Day 4, Cluckshot’s replace Boomshot’s – Day 5, [...]
Rod Fergusson is hosting another Live Stream Broadcast on Tuesday 1st November at 6:15 p.m EST / 11:15 p.m UK time. The Executive Producer of Gears of War 3 will be answering questions from the community about the up-and-coming “Horde Command Pack” DLC for Gears of War 3. If you have any questions for @GearsViking (Rod Fergusson) post it as a comment in the official post at Epic Games Community Website. You can find the live stream at Epic Games Twitch.tv [...]
Epic Games, Executive Producer Rod Fergusson hosts another Live Stream on October 5th, 05:30PM EST / 10:30PM UK time. During the Stream Rod will be discussing statistics of Gears 3, green liquid metal skins, upcoming events and upcoming DLC. Watch live video from epicgamesinc on Justin.tv Statistics of Gears 3 so far; most played horde map is Overpass, 56.5% of people who played Gears of War 3 have completed the first ten waves of horde and 1% have completed the insane difficulty. Also 89,394,000 waves of Horde [...]
Gears of War 3 is now officially launched and the Epic Games staff are celebrating with a Gaming with the developers event. Among the developers, Rod Fergusson and Will Kinsler will be there, plus a lot more. This event will start Friday 23rd, from 4:00-7:00 PM Eastern time. “The Developers will be using the following gamertags: GearsDev1 GearsDev2 GearsDev3 GearsDev4 GearsDev5 GearsDev16 GearsDev17 GearsDev18 GearsDev19 GearsDev020 Please note the extra zero in the last tag. Rod will be using the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Epic Games Inc. have announced that anyone who posted Gears of War 3 campaign spoiler videos may be banned from playing the game. Epic have been monitoring those who have been sharing Gears of War 3 videos before September 20th, Epic Games also added there will be “repercussions”. Rod Fergusson said to Edge, “We’re extremely diligent about getting that stuff taken down and issued a call to fans to not perpetuate it… and just keeping track of those who do. I [...]
Rod Fergusson (@GearsViking) has made a behind the scenes video on the European Media Tour as he mentioned at the end of his Live QA on TwitchTV. The European Schedule is listed below with Videos: Monday – Madrid, Spain Tuesday – London, United Kingdom Wednesday – Hamburg, Germany The Gears of War 3 Press team got to play Arcade Mode and Co-Op Campaign as well as go to some amazing Gears of War Venues to play the game. Also be [...]
Rod Fergusson announced that we’ll be seeing a new enemy on August 15th, with only 5 days until the Gears team & Epic Games announce their new character. We thought we would create the post to see what the creature or character could be. Some early rumors are that its Shriekers, Gunkers or Lambent RAAM – although Rod confirmed that RAAM will not be in the game. Could it be a new General for the Locusts? Is it a new [...]
In a recent interview with EDGE Rod Fergusson chats about Gears of War 3, Call of Duty, Chainsaws in Gears 3 and lots more. When asked approched with the question. “How much did the leak of the early development build of Gears 3 hurt you?” Rod replied For us, it’s frustrating. It’s saddening when people have worked so hard and we’ve been building toward September 20 and then you have this stuff go out, especially going out in an [...]
Sorry folks about not being around to update recently I’ve spent a great deal of time getting the latest Live Stream QA from Epic Games, Inc typed up so below the video we now have a full transcript of what went down. Some of the key points to take note of in the video include: The new enemy will be revealed on August 15th The Veteran Gears unlock is something we haven’t seen yet. There are approximately 15 legacy unlocks [...]
We all know Epic Games have a close relationship with their fans and once again they are treating us “gearheads” to a Question & Answer session with the Executive Producer of Gears of War 3 – Rod Fergusson. Join Rod on July 15th 05:30PM EST, visit Epic’s JustinTV channel. If your just itching to know the answer to something or maybe you’ve got a really good question post your question on the Epic Games Community Thread or even comment to [...]
Gears of War 3 Executive Producer, Rod Fergusson was streaming live answering all the questions he could on both Horde Mode and Beast Mode. In the video he shows off the Gold Retro Lancer made by TriForce. If you were submitting a question you got a chance to win the stunning Retro Lancer. Why not see if your question was answered and check out the video below. JustinTV – Horde/Beast Q&A with Rod Fergusson Check out the full transcript of [...]
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 [...]
In July it was announced that the Gears of War Community would decide the fate of Clayton Carmine, since then the people have been buying avatar items (which count as votes) for “Save Carmine” or “Carmine Must Die”. These results are in and have been counted and verified by Epic Games. However they are remaining tight lipped how the votes went as we will find out on April 8 2011. The only thing they did reveal was they are “heads [...]
