http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/gears of war http://kotaku.com/tag/gears of war A new set of downloadable content for Gears of War 3, Forces of Nature, will be out on March 27. It includes three new character skins, three new maps, two old maps, seven weapon skins and Gears of War 2's Guardian Mode. Forces of Nature will cost 800 MSP. [GameTrailers] More »
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If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face. More »
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You can already play with, erm, collect action figures from Epic Games' hit sci-fi shooters. But if you've wanted to set up any vehicular battles with transports from that universe, you've been out of luck. That's about to change. More »
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Some time ago we shared the papercraft wonder that was Leo Firebrand's Fallout 3 homage: the laser pistol. Paper (and some papier-mâché for the gun handle) alone yielded a believable piece of the post-apocalypse. More »
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This announcement oughta go over like a turd in a punchbowl. Seems that on Jan. 1, Xbox Live is taking guns away from all avatars. That is according to Epic Games' community manager, who in a reminder to Gears of War fans said that if they don't have the Lancer or Hammerburst avatar props, they better run go get strapped because all guns are verboten after the new year. More »
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New skins? Yup. Fresh maps to battle it out on? Check. But, on January 17th, the third update to Epic Games' best-selling shooter will brings a new multiplayer mechanic that'll seem very, um, familiar to players of the Call of Duty games. More »
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They teased it earlier this week and tonight on the VGAs, the makers of Gears of War 3 revealed their newest game. Called Fortnite, it appears to expand on the fortification/tower defense mechanics introduced in Gears of War 3 with an all-new art style that leaves the gritty, steroidal look of previous Epic games behind. We'll have more on Fortnite when we learn it. More »
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RAAM's Shadow is the second piece of downloadable content for Epic's terrific action game Gears of War 3. It drops on December 13th, and is much more substantive than the last DLC, mainly in that it's a prequel-style three-chapter adventure starring Michael Barrick (of the Gears comics) and Zeta team in place of series protagonist Marcus Fenix and his Delta squadmates. More »
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All you Kremlinologists who like to parse secrets out of video clips are SOL on this one. The teasing's strictly of the verbal variety as Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski hints an all-new game during a promo for the upcoming Spike Video Game Awards. Viewers don't get much to work with, other than clips of Gears of War and Infinity Blade games. With sequels for both of those franchises recently released, we can probably rule out. In the tweet that Spike's Geoff Keighley sent out earlier today, the game was called "a surprise new franchise." All Bleszinski says is that it's an "entirely fresh new experience" which seems to indicate that it'll be a new franchise. Hmm. More »
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A student in Milton Keynes, England paid a full bus fare for Marcus Fenix. No, really. Carrying home a life-size cardboard display of the Gears of War protagonist, Liam Sheridan was told by the driver his monthly bus pass didn't cover his companion. More »
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RAAM's Shadow, the second downloadable extension to Gears of War 3, is due to arrive Dec. 13, but its six new multiplayer skins have already been exposed through the game's character-selection stage. More »
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There's an argument, a very good argument, that whenever a game launches with downloadable content alongside it, that's a bad thing, because that content could either have gone into the game itself or the energy spent making it could have been used making the game better. More »
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Fending off challenges from Gears of War 3 and Battlefield 3 during their launch weeks, Call of Duty: Black Ops at last met its match this past week—in its successor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. More »
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Triforce, the same guys behind that awesome 1:1 Mass Effect rifle, are also releasing a 1:1 weapon from the Gears of War universe. More »
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YouTube's Ashens takes a delightful look at a Marcus Fenix "Bionicle of War 2" figure for ages 3 and up! More »
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The $10 worth of new content that went on sale digitally for Gears of War 3 this week is mostly already included on the Gears of War 3 disc that gamers bought for $60. More »
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We already know that Gears of War 3 is a damn good game. It came with an exhaustive amount of multiplayer and single-player options out of the box, and now Epic has begun to release constant downloadable upgrades, starting now and running into 2012. More »
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After some difficulties getting out of the gate, the newest DLC for Epic's hit Xbox 360 exclusive is out in the wild and ready to play. Microsoft's also announced that it'll be rolling our free Gears 3 content on Thanksgiving, too. (That's American Thanksgiving, not the Canadian variant.) The Versus Booster Map Pack will deliver three of the maps from Horde Command—Azura, Rustlung and Blood Drive—along with the Swamp and Clocktower environments from Gears 1 available for more multiplayer combat. So, you're getting the maps from the paid DLC for free three weeks later, but with none of the other features from Horde Command. Of course, if you pony up for the Gears of War Season Pass, you're getting all this stuff anyway. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5855328&view=rss&microfeed=true The Horde Command Pack release for Gears of War 3 scheduled to hit today is temporarily delayed due to unspecified technical issue, according to the Epic Games forums. "We apologize to those of you who are anxiously awaiting to play. We know this is disappointing news as we've seen a lot of posts today showing excitement for this content. We have folks working around the clock to resolve this issue ASAP so you can all play and enjoy the Command Pack." More »
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In a wide-ranging interview at Develop, company president Mike Capps reveals that the makers of Gears of War have five new projects underway and that he wants Unreal Engine 4 to hit on day one of the next new consoles. More »
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For $15 on December 13, you'll be able to add three hours to Gears of War 3's storyline campaign by downloading a new expansion to the game called RAAM's Shadow. You'll also be able to play as a bad guy in it. More »
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The next Xbox hasn't been announced. There have been hints and rumors, but nothing official. Regardless, it is coming, and game designers, like the rest of us, have a laundry list of things they want. Gears of War Cliff Bleszinski is no different. More »
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Animation team Kooberz Studios figured, you know, all LEGO ever cover is kid's franchises. There's never anything with real gore in it. So they whipped up their own LEGO Gears of War video. More »
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Gather up people. It's week four of our Gears of War 3 talks at the Kotaku Game Club. In our final discussion, we're going to see what everyone thinks about the overhauled Horde mode and its counterpart, the brand new Beast mode. More »
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All this time, I'd thought that there'd nothing more satisfying than the close-up carnage of the Gears of War franchise's signature weapon, Surely, nothing could surpass ripping a Locust or Lambent attacher to shreds with the chainsaw bayonet of the Lancer gun. But there is such a thing, friends. More »
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There's an established, if corny description of the art of Gears of War: "destroyed beauty". I don't like typing it, I especially don't like hearing it. Beauty doesn't need to be defined like that because even the most smashed up thing in the universe can be beautiful if someone simply thinks it is. More »
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I hope you're ready, ladies and gents. It's Versus mode week here at the Kotaku Game Club. Today we'll be sharing our experiences playing the competitive multiplayer modes of Gears of War 3. More »
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Artist Gobeur has a neat calling card: she takes video games, sometimes gritty, sometimes less gritty, and makes images in which it looks like there's an expensive cartoon based on them. Even though there's no such thing. More »
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On November 1, you can buy $10 more of Gears of War 3 in the form of the Horde Command Pack. More »
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Now that Gears of War 3 is out and reviewed, it's time to talk about future Gears games. Because, why not? Those games make cashola! And Gears designer Cliff Bleszinski isn't sick of them. Yet. More »
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Reader billdcon spied Resistance 3 and Gears of War 3 hot-bunking a PS3 kiosk at his local Walmart. "Not pictured, people asking for Gears for PS3, and Walmart employees actually looking all around to try to find a copy," says billdcon. We'll believe him. More »
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Gears of War 3 was the second most popular game on Xbox Live on the week it launched, topping Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 but failing to unseat the 10-month-old Call of Duty: Black Ops. More »
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To get the hardest achievement on the Xbox 360, Marcus Fenix had to do more than just kill a few Locust. He had to get his hands dirty. He had to put in some time. More »
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With console-quality graphics, witty dialog, and surprisingly satisfying cover-based shooting controls, Madfinger's Shadowgun is an amazing accomplishment of an iOS title, sadly cheapened by the developers obvious attempts to ape Epic's Gears of War. More »
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LEGO builder extraordinare PLUM B has built this life-sized replica of a Gears of War Lancer rifle that doesn't just look the part, it shoots the part as well. More »
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Welcome back everyone! During today's meeting of the Kotaku Game Club, we'll be discussing the later three acts of the Gears of War 3 campaign. Warning: For all you Gears players who haven't finished the campaign yet, there will definitely be spoilers below. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5845150&view=rss&microfeed=true Gears of War 3 sold more than three million copies in the first week since its release, publisher Microsoft said today. The Xbox 360 exclusive is now the top grossing game of 2011, a record that more than a few games will be gunning to topple in the coming months. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5845037&view=rss&microfeed=true If you haven't heard, the Kotaku Game Club will be discussing the second half of the Gears of War 3 campaign at Kotaku tomorrow at 4pm Eastern here on the site. If you've been playing Gears 3, check it out! More »
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Gaming's reached a turning point. Western games have more realistic graphics and physics than Japanese games. This isn't good or bad. It's true. More »
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