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Epic Games has recently confirmed that it has put together and that it plans to launch a new version of its very popular Gears of War 2 over the shoulder shooter and now we finally have a release date for it.The Game of the Year edition of the multi-million seller will be on store shelves on September 1 and will allo... |
27 August 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Microsoft is trying to make Xbox Live Avatars more interesting to the average user of its home gaming console. It has recently showed off a Marketplace that will offer new clothing options for the digital creations and it seems that a sort of Achievement system for them is also set to be implemented at some point.And... |
27 July 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 was one of the most anticipated titles at the end of last year, promising to take the whole great experience of the first game and deliver even more interesting twists when it comes to the story and new mechanics in terms of the multiplayer mode. Sadly, it didn't really keep a lot of its promises... |
22 July 2009
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As most of you know, the upcoming weekend holds July 4, the date when the United States celebrate their Independence. The day is marked by fireworks, celebrations, parades and, as Epic Games and Treyarch have in mind, shooting others in their respective games, Gears of War 2 and Call of Duty: World at War. That'... |
2 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 has a lot of high-quality, exclusive franchises, but one of the most important is Epic Games' Gears of War series of third-person shooters, as the first one paved the way for the large sales of the device made by Microsoft. Now, the second one was highly anticipated by a lot of people and generated... |
1 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Gears of War 2 was one of the biggest games launched last year, as it is the sequel to one of the most popular titles made for the Xbox 360. Promising to deliver a bigger, better and more extreme experience, it was immediately embraced by fans around the world.Sadly, it wasn't without faults, especially in the m... |
26 June 2009
02:39 GMT |
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Gears of War was a great game for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console. As such, it was ported to the PC and released a year later with some brand new content that made console users quite angry, but they still played it. Last year, Gears of War 2 appeared for the same console from Microsoft and its creator, Cliff Bles... |
15 June 2009
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Gears of War 2 was one of last year's best-selling games, largely due to the massive hype that was generated around it by its creator, Cliff Bleszinski, who promised a bigger and better version of the first title that was a benchmark for Xbox 360 games. Sadly, many people who bought it found that, while the sin... |
25 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The Gears of War franchise is one of the most popular third-person shooter series currently available to gamers. It showcased the power of the Xbox 360 with the first title, and the recently launched Gears of War 2 broke sale records even though it wasn't quite up to par, in the opinion of a lot of fans. Of cou... |
6 May 2009
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Microsoft has said that it is preparing to take action against all those players who have used illegal means to gain those hard to get Achievements that can make a gamer’s profile look good.The company is saying that the Gamer Score of those who have cheated will be reset and that all those “glitching&rdq... |
29 April 2009
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Recently, Microsoft praised the performance of the Xbox Live service it offers to those who have bought an Xbox 360 gaming console. Since it was initially introduced in November 2006, more than 1 billion dollars have been generated by Xbox Live, mostly in 2008, when revenue went up by more than 84%, mainly because of... |
13 April 2009
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Gears of War 2 is one of the most popular games launched at the end of last year, being the sequel to one of the biggest titles ever made for the Xbox 360. It brought new gameplay features and a multiplayer mode that, although a bit buggy and unbalanced at first, became a fan favorite.Now, as scheduled by different p... |
1 April 2009
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Gears of War 2 was one of the biggest games to hit the stores at the end of last year, as it was the successor to one of the most popular ones ever made for the Xbox 360 console. With the hype campaign having reached critical levels just as the game was launched, players welcomed it with open arms, which led to some ... |
16 March 2009
04:24 GMT |
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People know that some big shift is about to happen when more than one big company seems to be heading down the same road. We've talked a few days ago about the limited trial run that Toys R Us, the biggest retailer of kids material in the United States, is making in New York in relation to allowing customers to ... |
6 March 2009
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Gears of War is one of the most popular franchises from the new surge of high-quality titles. While the first one really got people into the Xbox 360, the sequel, which was launched before last year's holiday season, managed to sell a whopping amount of over 4 million units. With such a great franchise under its... |
13 February 2009
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Gears of War has become a true phenomenon as gamers across the world got sucked into the action-filled story of Marcus Fenix and his team mates as they battle the angry alien race called the Locust. While the first and second game told the story of how Marcus was released from jail and called to the battlefield to he... |
12 February 2009
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The Nielsen Company has announced that gaming companies have spent more than 823 million dollars in order to promote videogames in the United States. The data was obtained with the help of the Monitor-Plus service, which is used to see what advertisements are being targeted at consumers in the U.S. The sum worldwide ... |
12 February 2009
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In the gaming industry some old series have gained the status of cult icons, and gamers of all ages and races remember the good times they spent with them. As such, it’s pretty hard for new IPs (Intellectual Properties) to become popular and to really make an impact on the big number of gamers. But some have ac... |
29 January 2009
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Microsoft really knows how to peddle its warez. After all, even if Killzone 2 is coming out at the end of February, Sony is pretty quiet on that game, while Gears of War 2 is still being promoted despite the fact that it was launched more than two months ago. The new promotion is called “13 Days of Gears”... |
26 January 2009
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It's been another week packed with games, even if we're still in the very early stages of 2009. Let's take a look back and see what was important and even somewhat funny in the last few days.With dismay, I found out on Monday that the judge whom I praised last week was not so enlightened about videogam... |
24 January 2009
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Industry analysts are saying that for GameStop, the used games sales revenue will reach 23% of the overall value of the business, up to a value of 2 million dollars. In the previous year, the percent value was similar, at 22.4%, but the value was of only 1.6 million dollars.The used game market accounted for 42% of t... |
23 January 2009
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Gears of War 2 was a game backed up quite heavily by both its developer, Epic Games, and its publisher, Microsoft. It was the sequel to one of the best-selling titles made for the Xbox 360 and at the time it was released it was already enjoying a very massive and loyal fan base that would surely buy it. However, alt... |
22 January 2009
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Think back to the period running up to Christmas last year. High profile games were released every week, with a publicity and public relations blitz designed to drown out any other gaming news for those crucial first days to one week when blockbuster titles generate the biggest part of their sales. There is little si... |
22 January 2009
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As most gamers have known from the days of Tetris, we're not playing videogames to enjoy our daily dose of over the top violence but to overcome new gameplay challenges. This is now a scientific fact as demonstrated by a study from the University of Rochester and from the firm Immersyve, which specializes in &ld... |
20 January 2009
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Gears of War 2 is the sequel to one of the most popular games ever released for the Xbox 360, which sold extremely well and propelled Microsoft's console to new heights in terms of sales and market share. With this second installment, the team at Epic Games wanted to bring new improvements to the original and in... |
20 January 2009
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With the videogames industry slowing due to the recession and with a 2009 that could see the fall of more developers and even some publishers as less titles hit it big at retail, everyone is looking at the NPD Group data for December 2008, trying to see who is doing well and who is not even showing up for the fight.A... |
16 January 2009
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Co-Optimus is announcing that, as part of their cooperative play game night, developers from the team that created Gears of War 2 will be joining regular players all over the world in tackling both the single player campaign and the vicious Horde mode.The event will take place on January 15, today, at 7:30 PM Eastern... |
15 January 2009
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The Xbox division at Microsoft has taken a long, hard look at 2008 and produced some data showing how important the year was to the gaming console produced by the software giant. There are more than 28 million Xbox 360 gaming consoles in use in the world at the moment, which means that the device has an 8 million lea... |
7 January 2009
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Gears of War 2 was one of the most expected games that were launched before the 2008 holiday season. It promised to bring back the same non stop shooter action, backed up by some breathtaking environments and new multiplayer modes. Although it delivered on some of those promises, the game was plagued by a variety of... |
7 January 2009
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As with books, movies or music, it’s rather difficult to review and grade a videogame. There’s inherent subjectivity that comes into play and threatens to topple the carefully balanced system of pros and cons, observations and grades. I can’t be sure that my experience with, say, Fallout 3 will be s... |
30 December 2008
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Far Cry 2 is a game that makes you part of a war you never intended to fight, shows you how people can die around you, makes you feel helpless and very powerful at the same time, allows you to have tactical flexibility while making you do more stuff with your own hands than any game until now. It’s a shooter ai... |
29 December 2008
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2008 is not a good game for the economy overall and although the videogaming industry has not been hit as hard as, say, the financial segment, there are a lot of publishers and developers facing difficult situations. Still, the industry is on track to posting a growth of 20% over 2007, which is more than the analysts... |
29 December 2008
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Every outlet in the press that covers videogames does an end of the year segment awarding a Game of the Year for those titles which have really impressed over the recent 12 months. It's a good idea, as it manages to boil down the most significant releases of the recent period and gives those not following the ne... |
28 December 2008
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Edge, the videogame magazine published by the Future media group, has announced the recipients of the 2008 Edge Awards, presented each year to those titles influencing the industry and changing players’ expectations.The big winner of 2008 is the PlayStation 3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet, created by Media Molecule... |
28 December 2008
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Recession is hitting hard. Midway was just sold for around 100,000 dollars. Eidos is looking for someone to bail it out. Brash Entertainment went under. Electronic Arts has laid off 1,000 people, about 10% of the staff it employs and announced closing down nine studios, including Need for Speed Undercover developer B... |
23 December 2008
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Do you remember the first Gears of War? When it came out, people were impressed by the graphics, the innovative cover mechanics and the over the top macho vibe of the entire gaming experience it offered. Epic Games, led by Cliff Blezisnki, managed to create a title that revolutionized the way shooters looked and felt... |
22 December 2008
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With Gears of War 2 enjoying very good sales and becoming one of the most played multiplayer games on Xbox Live, Microsoft has moved quickly to capitalize on the situation and announced the launch of a new map pack for the shooter, called the Combustible Map Pack. The exclusive premiere of the content was hosted by t... |
16 December 2008
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In a month when the gaming industry grew by around 10% over the same period of 2007, bringing the total revenue for the year to around 16 billion dollars, sales of videogames went up by 11%, which is good but not great, considering the value of the games released during the recent four weeks.The biggest game of Novem... |
12 December 2008
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Time is one of the serious magazines that are aware of the impact videogames have on today’s society. The publication has just outed a list of the Top Ten games of 2008.The best game of 2008 is Grand Theft Auto IV, the title published by Take Two and developed by Rockstar. Lev Grossman, who is in charge of... |
12 December 2008
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Mario Kart Wii, created by Nintendo, has managed to be the best sold videogame in the United Kingdom for another week, after last week the title went to number one about eight months since launch. The popularity of the game seems to be a result of increased advertising, better Nintendo Wii supplies and the comin... |
11 December 2008
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Microsoft announces that Gears of War 2, the Xbox 360 exclusive shooter recently launched, has managed to sell more than 3 million copies. The title was launched on November 7, so it took a little longer than one month to reach these sales figures, a pretty impressive feat.The original Gears of War, also exclusive to... |
9 December 2008
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The PlayStation 3, the home gaming console made by Sony, is looking for a game release big enough to counter the Xbox 360 exclusive launch of Gears of War 2, one of the most loved shooter franchises on the market. The two big candidates for Gears killer have been Resistance 2 and Killzone 2.Unfortunately, the former ... |
8 December 2008
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Do you know what British gamers want for Christmas, with the last month seeing the release of Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 or Call of Duty: Word at War? Well, they want to play Mario Kart Wii, an old title that has been in the top ten of the videogames chart for what, in the gaming world, seems like eternity. The reason... |
5 December 2008
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Midway is a struggling developer and publisher of games these days, but, although its financial troubles have been on the map for quite some time, the company is still putting up a good fight. Its new games, like Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, haven't been very successful in sales, but executives are still optim... |
5 December 2008
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Black Friday was said to be the day when retailers broke into profit for the first time during the year. This might be less true now, with the crisis looming over both buyers and sellers, but a videogame was one of the most searched for bargains during this year's Black Friday.Sites like eBay and Shopping.com ar... |
2 December 2008
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Gears of War 2 was one of the most expected games this holiday season, largely due to the fact that it promised to give players the same great experience its predecessor did, with new things and gameplay modes that would enrich it even more.Although it was met with a lot of anticipation, as it broke the pre-order rec... |
1 December 2008
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The period before the start of this holiday season has been host to some very interesting battles between popular games, especially shooters. While there were multiplatform, sure to sell games like Call of Duty: World at War or Dead Space, the main focus was the fight between the sequels to some very popular exclusiv... |
1 December 2008
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Gears of War 2 was probably one of the most expected shooters this holiday season and one of the hottest Xbox 360 exclusives that Microsoft promoted. The sequel to a very popular shooter, this game promised to bring back the same non-stop action and excellent gameplay that gained the first title so many fans.A lot of... |
28 November 2008
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Call of Duty: World at War, the World War II new installment in the long running franchise, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, barely edging out Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion for the Blizzard made World of Warcraft MMO.The Xbox 360 version of World at War is at number one in the charts and ha... |
20 November 2008
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Gears of War is currently one of the most popular shooter franchises on the market, having won over a big number of fans due to its hardcore nature and bloody firefights. The first game was a huge success and the sequel, which was just released, is bound to overcome all sales expectations and boost the profits of Epi... |
18 November 2008
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