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Gears of War 3 Story Trailer Launched

Gears of War 3 has just received its first concrete story trailer, complete with gameplay sequences and nods to the campaign that will see protagonist Marcus Fenix and his fellow Delta Squad teammates try to finish the battle against the alien Locust. Gears of War 3 just saw its multiplayer beta stage wrap up at t...

30 May 2011
03:20 GMT

Gears of War 3 Beta Is About Player Feedback, Not Just a Publicity Stunt

The Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta stage which has just kicked off at the beginning of the week is all about getting feedback from players, as Epic Games, the developer of the upcoming title, wants to make sure that the new game will satisfy the legions of Gears of War fans. Epic Games promised to release Gears o...

19 April 2011
17:21 GMT

Unreal Engine Still Set to Power Android Video Games

Epic Games, the creators of the Unreal Engine, are still working on bringing the development suite over to the Android mobile operating system, which is being developed by Google, despite a number of reports to the contrary. Mark Rein, who is a vice president at Epic Games, has said in an interview with Gamasutra,...

7 April 2011
10:01 GMT

Gears of War Will Continue After the Third Game

The Gears of War franchise, the massively popular Xbox 360 exclusive third-person shooter, will see its universe continue to be developed past the third game that will be launched this fall. The Gears of War series was planned as a trilogy, but this doesn't mean that the universe of the franchise won't c...

7 April 2011
03:45 GMT

Gears of War 3 Beta Expected to Have 1 Million Players

Epic Games, the company behind the upcoming Gears of War 3 third-person shooter, is expecting over 1 million players to join in on the multiplayer beta stage that will be kicked off in two weeks. Gears of War 3 is set to be one of the biggest Xbox 360 games of the year, as legions of hardcore fans are eagerly awai...

5 April 2011
04:55 GMT

Gears of War 3 Will Attract Halo and Call of Duty Players

Gears of War 3, the upcoming third-person shooter from Epic Games and Microsoft has the power to attract regular first-person shooter players, who usually favor franchises like Halo or Call of Duty.Gears of War 3 is currently still in development at Epic Games and is scheduled to be published exclusively for the Xbox...

10 March 2011
18:01 GMT

Gears of War Might See New Stories After the End of the Trilogy

The Gears of War franchise, one of the most important Xbox 360 exclusive series out there, can certainly see more stories in its universe after the end of its planned trilogy with the release of Gears of War 3 later this year. Epic Games, the developer of the Gears of War franchise, has been adamant that its serie...

9 March 2011
08:41 GMT

Gears of War on the PS3 Would Be Great, Epic Games Says

Epic Games would love to bring the Gears of War franchise onto the PlayStation 3, but Microsoft is proving to be a great partner time and time again, so it's still exclusive to the Xbox 360. Among the array of exclusive series for the Xbox 360, Epic's Gears of War is right at the top, being overtaken onl...

7 March 2011
17:21 GMT

Gears of War 3 Multiplayer Beta Stars on April 18, Unlockables Included

The Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta will officially start on April 18, for those who got the Bulletstorm Epic Edition, and on April 25, for all those who pre-order the game at GameStop. Gears of War fans have been eagerly awaiting a new release in the third-person shooter series for quite a while, so the announcem...

7 March 2011
04:20 GMT

Gears of War 3 Multiplayer Beta - All You Need to Know

After releasing Bulletstorm at the beginning of the week, Epic Games has now revealed a huge amount of details about the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta. A huge amount of details were presented, so we decided to gather them all up and highlight the most important things about the multiplayer of the highly awaited ...

25 February 2011
18:01 GMT

Gears of War 3 Beta Will Also Be Open to Those Who Don't Buy Bulletstorm

Epic Games has confirmed that while buying the Bulletstorm Epic Edition will allow gamers entry into the Gears of War 3 beta stage, other ways of accessing it will be revealed at a later time. Bulletstorm is currently being rolled out in North America and will hit Europe this Friday. Besides its top-notch shoot...

23 February 2011
18:01 GMT

Buy Bulletstorm on the PC, Get Gears of War Free

Bulletstorm is on the receiving end of a pretty great deal if you opt to get it from Microsoft's Games for Windows Live marketplace digital store, as you'll be receiving a free copy of Gears of War on the PC alongside the new first-person shooter. Bulletstorm is one of the big all-new intellectual proper...

21 February 2011
03:00 GMT

Kinect Powered Gears of War Could Be on Rails Shooter

A new rumor, accompanied by a screenshot, suggests that Microsoft is getting ready to push its Kinect motion tracking system to more hardcore spaces by delivering an experience that uses it and is set in the very popular Gears of War universe. Sources have told Kotaku that the long-rumored Kinect powered Gears of ...

9 February 2011
06:28 GMT

Other Epic Games Won't Unlock Items in Gears of War 3

Gears of War 3, Epic Games' big upcoming third-person shooter, will no longer award any unlockable items to its players if they had other titles from the prestigious developer. Epic Games, in order to promote its other releases through Gears of War 3, promised to add certain unlockable items if you already ow...

7 February 2011
04:10 GMT

Gears of War Triple Pack Revealed, Arrives on February 15

Gears of War fans are in for a major treat next month, as Epic Games and Microsoft will launch the Gears of War Triple Pack for the Xbox 360. A few weeks ago, a GameStop representative confirmed that something called a Gears of War Ultimate will be launched in February and will contain the first two games released...

19 January 2011
17:21 GMT

Epic Games Prepares Gears of War: Exile

A trademark filling from Epic Games suggests that, parallel to working on the upcoming third person shooter Gears of War 3, the company is developing a yet unannounced project that bears the name Exile, which could be officially unveiled before the end of the year. The trademark filling comes with an attached logo...

19 January 2011
06:32 GMT

Gears of War Ultimate Bundle Has First Two Games, Hits This February

Those that haven't experienced Epic Games' extremely popular Gears of War saga are in for a special treat, as U.S. retailer GameStop has just confirmed that a Gears of War Ultimate bundle will be released this February. According to a GameStop representative, the Gears of War Ultimate edition will includ...

3 January 2011
03:45 GMT

New Epic Games Project Coming to GDC

A new Epic Games project will be revealed to the public at the Game Developers Conference that will take place between the end of February and beginning of March, next year, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The announcement was made by Epic's lead designer, Cliff Bleszinski, who shared a few...

28 December 2010
03:45 GMT

Gears of War 3 Multiplayer Beta Ready in April

The multiplayer beta stage for Gears of War 3 is going to appear "sometime around April," according to the Mike Capps, the president of the title's developer, Epic Games. Gears of War 3 was set to be launched next spring, but due to business reasons, it was pushed back into the fall of 2011. This allowed t...

23 December 2010
03:20 GMT

Gears of War 3 Has Unlockables for Loyal Epic Games Fans

Gears of War 3, the upcoming third-person shooter exclusive to the Xbox 360, is set to have special unlockable items or features if gamers already purchased and played other titles from its developer, Epic Games.The announcement was made by Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski on his official Twitter account.The dev...

22 December 2010
03:35 GMT

Gears of War Creator Explains Missing VGA Announcement

The Spike TV Video Game Awards have come and gone, but even if we received a huge amount of trailers with all-new games, one of the scheduled announcements before the start of the event, concerning the Gears of War franchise, didn't appear. Microsoft and Epic Games, the publisher and developer, respectively, ...

20 December 2010
02:30 GMT

Unexpected Gears of War Announcement To Be Made at Video Game Awards

A big announcement about Gears of War is set to be made at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, according to a new teaser trailer featuring the creator of the third person shooter franchise, Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski. In the teaser trailer, an ominous voice says: "Don't miss the Gears of War announcement t...

30 November 2010
03:38 GMT

Gears of War Kinect Rumors Aren't True, Creator Says

Gears of War, one of the biggest Xbox 360 exclusive franchises out there, is currently rumored to receive some sort of support for Kinect, Microsoft's new motion detection system, released a few weeks ago for the console.Such a thing isn't true, however, as the creator of the franchise and the lead designer...

17 November 2010
03:34 GMT

Gears of War Creator: Gamers Hate Sequels But Love Three-quels

Epic design boss Cliff 'Cliffy B' Bleszinski has recently revealed an interesting tidbit of information about gamers: they hate sequels to titles but love it when the third game in the series appears.Bleszinski is currently hard at work on Gears of War 3, the third title in the Gears of War series, which ha...

21 October 2010
02:55 GMT

Gears of War 3 Dedicated Servers Will Level the Playing Field

Gears of War fans were pleasantly surprised last week when the franchise's developer, Epic Games, announced that the next title, Gears of War 3, when it will eventually appear, will come with dedicated servers for the multiplayer mode, in order to eliminate the dreaded host advantage.Gears of War fans were alrea...

11 October 2010
17:21 GMT

Gears of War 3 To Get Multiplayer Beta and Dedicated Servers Next Year

Gears of War 3 is one of next year's biggest Xbox 360 exclusives, but it has recently disappointed fans when it was revealed that it will be pushed back from its initial April, 2011 release date, to the fall of next year. Now, though, Epic Games, the title's developer, has revealed some big news for Gear...

8 October 2010
03:44 GMT

Gears of War 3 Delay Was Not a Quality Issue, Epic Says

Gears of War fans were thoroughly disappointed last week when the game's developer, Epic Games, and its publisher, Microsoft Game Studios, announced that the third iteration in the extremely popular third person shooter series, Gears of War 3, was pushed back from its initial April 2011 release to the fall seaso...

7 October 2010
03:39 GMT

Gears of War 3 Delayed to Fall of 2011

Gears of War 3, by far one of the most anticipated Xbox 360 exclusives of next year, has been pushed back from its initial release date in April to fall of 2011, according to a statement from Microsoft Games Studios, the title's publisher.The Gears of War franchise is one of the most respected Xbox 360 exclusive...

4 October 2010
04:03 GMT

Weekend Reading: Talking Movies with Halo and BioShock

Recently the people at 343 Industries have announced that they are still thinking about creating a Halo movie, saying that there's no rush to create it but that the project is defintiely still alive.The team is also actively looking at possibilities to bring the franchise to television is a movie project does no...

11 September 2010
08:51 GMT

Gears of War Movie Back to Script Work

Gears of War 3 might be on track to come out on the expected dates in April 2011 but it seems that the Gears of War movie, that fans have been waiting for since the first video game became an instant success on the Xbox gaming platform, is having some issues at the moment. Reports from Comic Con say that Cliff Bleszi...

27 July 2010
16:51 GMT

Bulletstorm Developer: Gamers Do Not Care About Graphics

Adrian Chmielarz, the founder of People Can Fly, has recently revealed that he does not really think gamers are interested in graphics anymore. The Bulletstorm developer continued to comment on the fact that creating an adventure is more important than advanced visuals and that huge graphical detail does not guarante...

5 July 2010
08:01 GMT

New Update Incoming for Gears of War 2

The developers at Epic Games have announced that they are about to release Gears of War 2 Title Update 6 that will contain a pretty long list of fixes for the original title. The main addition is a new matchmaking option called Social Xbox Live that will enable gamers to join multiplayer engagement in progress. This ...

19 May 2010
18:01 GMT

Monster Hunter and Frank West Coming to Lost Planet 2

It seems that crossovers are all the rage in the gaming industry at the moment as Capcom and Konami have announced that they will be collaborating in order to introduce a fully equipped Monster Hunter into Lost Planet 2, the shooter set to be launched this year for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3.Th...

20 April 2010
12:51 GMT

Big Late Night Reveal from Gears of War Developer Delayed to Monday

When it was initially announced that Cliff Blezinki, the well known Gears of War developer, would appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in order to talk about a new game announcement, a lot of people saw this as another clear sign that videogaming, even in its most hardcore incarnation, was going mainstream. Well, t...

8 April 2010
13:31 GMT

Modern Warfare Problems Could Not Happen with Gears of War

After the Infinity Ward-Activision Blizzard conflict, with the main creative minds at the company laid off and law suits being thrown around by the two sides, players started looking at other long time developer-publisher relationships and wonder whether something similar could be possible. And some developers have b...

17 March 2010
05:57 GMT

Weekend Reading: Nobody Really Cares About Modern Warfare

Various analysts have pointed out that the Call of Duty franchise, the Guitar Hero games and World of Warcraft account for about two thirds of the revenue of Activision Blizzard. We already know that the music genre is in free fall and that the number of Guitar Hero titles launched in 2010 will be severely reduced. T...

13 March 2010
11:01 GMT

Tecmo Koei Delays Quantum Theory

Tecmo Koei, a company only recently formed after the two publishers decided to collaborate in 2009, has announced that it has lost about 1.84 billion Yen, which is the equivalent of about 20 million dollars, during the third quarter of 2009, mainly because of the fall of the Nintendo Wii videogame market, weak sales ...

4 February 2010
04:15 GMT

Gears of War Developer Is Interested in the iPad

The talk of the technology world at the moment is the new iPad tablet computing solution unveiled by Apple. The device, which costs from 499 dollars upwards, is positioned to be another success for the company and given the impact the iPhone had on the world of gaming, taking a slice out of the market share of both t...

29 January 2010
17:01 GMT

Gears of War's Marcus and Dom Are Part of Lost Planet 2

This Monday, Capcom held a special event, and while there weren't as many surprises as we might have expected, one showcasing was definitely jaw-dropping. The company released a new trailer for its Xbox 360 Lost Planet 2 game, and the short clip featured a rather familiar cast. While this may not sound all that ...

28 January 2010
03:58 GMT

A Gamer's Week: January 24

This week, it's been all cloak and dagger here at Softpedia as we've played Assassin's Creed II for a review but we've also written our usual Weekend Reading and EndWeekGame pieces to give you something interesting to read. And, of course, we have a selection of this week’s news to take a lo...

24 January 2010
11:11 GMT

Epic Says No Regrets of Gears of War Exclusivity

Until the arrival of Modern Warfare 1 and 2, the Gears of War series had been the most important franchise of the Xbox 360, demonstrating both the capabilities of the Microsoft made home console and fulfilling the power fantasies of its core audience.But despite the huge profits that developers Epic made from their p...

22 January 2010
04:27 GMT

Epic Might Regret Making Gears of War an Exclusive Title

Exclusive platform titles are a bit of a two-edged sword, slashing at both the developing studio as well as at the hardware manufacturers. A big game, a good game, which comes out on a single console does a lot for the reputation of the producer of both the platform and the developer. The console gets to enjoy a larg...

22 January 2010
04:07 GMT

Weekend Reading: How Natal Will Not Change Gaming

Project Natal was the indisputable videogaming star of the recent Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. Microsoft finally confirmed a holiday 2010 release window and offered a few more pieces of information on the device. And the big piece of news is that Project Natal will no longer have the dedicated chip in...

16 January 2010
11:21 GMT

A New Game Project Has Been Leaked, Bulletstorm

People Can Fly may not be a developer that's very famous, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have its share of big names attached to it. Painkiller would be one of them, as well as the PC port of Gears of War, but the name of Gorky 17 might ring a familiar and nostalgic bell as well. Now existing in...

30 December 2009
04:37 GMT

Quantum Theory Leaves the PS3-Exclusive Club and Comes to the Xbox 360

At the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo, Tecmo announced that it would be making its play for the third-person shooter market, with its PlayStation 3-exclusive Quantum Theory. The game makes use of the Unreal Engine 3 and showed right from the beginning a blatant similarity with Gears of War 2, Epic's hit that...

8 December 2009
05:24 GMT

Epic Games Teases Unreal Announcement

It seems that Epic Games is shifting its attention to the Unreal franchise soon and the official website of the developer, which has long created some of the most successful shooter series on both the PC and the various gaming consoles, is now displaying the image that is attached to this very article and the ingenio...

23 October 2009
13:31 GMT

Gears of War 3 Might Have Playable Female Characters

The Gears of War franchise captured the imagination of a lot of hardcore gamers out there, particularly because it depicted big burly men wielding large guns with chainsaw bayonets at the end and fighting “the good fight” against a race of underground monsters called the Locusts. But while the main group...

5 August 2009
16:51 GMT

Gears of War Movie Gets More Details

The Gears of War franchise of video games has gathered a huge number of fans all around the world. Even though the two titles didn't have some of the most original stories in the gaming medium, they still managed to get a cult-like following, which is why Epic Games has contracted director Len Wiseman, who worke...

31 July 2009
16:41 GMT

The Rock Might Not Appear in the Gears of War Movie

The Gears of War franchise has a huge number of fans all around the world. Their dedication to the series created by Epic Games and brought to the Xbox 360 has been clear as the second installment, Gears of War 2, managed to sell extremely well. As talks about the Gears of War movie are getting stronger and stronger...

27 July 2009
15:01 GMT

Cliff Bleszinski: Shooters Will Become RPGs in the Future

There are certainly a lot of video game genres out there, ranging from strategy-oriented to hardcore ones, like sports. But one of the most popular is the shooter genre, as it gives players the opportunity to play as some unforgettable characters that let their guns do the talking for them. But as time will pass, sh...

8 July 2009
03:20 GMT


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