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August 30, 2011
Epic Games programs two fates for Carmine in GOW3 in case of early spoiler leaks.
If you remember back in 2010, Epic Games stated that fans of Gears of War 3 will have a voice in the decision of what will happen to the character Carmine. This was done via purchasing one of the two shirts with one saying "Save Carmine" and another saying "Carmine must die". All the $150,000 of the proceeds from the two shirts went to the Penny Arcade charity Child's Play. But while the fundraising is done, the general public will not know the
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August 25, 2011
The opening to Epic's GOW3 is now available.
It just weeks away from Epic Games releasing the conclusion to Gears of War 3 and they decided at Gamescom in Germany this past week to release to the general public, the opening cinematic movie of the game. While it does have a hint of being a bit spoiler-ish, it is definitely worth watching as it tells you (through the mind of Anya Stroud) about what the world in Gears of War 3 has become.
If you wish to see the video, can check it
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August 22, 2011
News of Gears of War 3 reaches Epic Games' office. Staff celebrates with delicious cake.
Microsoft andEpic Games have just recently announced thatGears of War 3 pre-ordershas reached Gold status before its worldwide launch on September 20th. With this news reaching all over the gaming world, Epic Games and Microsoft decided that it was time to celebrate this achievement with an epic cake.
Seen above, Epic Games's Design Director Cliff Bleszinski is seen delicately cutting
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August 19, 2011
The high-calorie Internet Sensation shows their love for Gears of War 3 with 10,000+ calories.
The closer the world gets to the release of Epic Games's Gears of War 3, the more the people come out of the woodwork to show their love and appreciation for the series. And recently, no one showed more love than the Canadian internet sensation "Epic Meal Time".
For those of you who don't know what "Epic Meal Time" is, it is one of Youtube's most watched channels
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August 18, 2011
Recently released photos of GOW3's campaign are now available to the public.
Just released as of this blog, August 16, some screenshots of Gears of War 3's campaign are now available to the general public. While there were some doubtersabout Gears of War was going to be just more Gears, after seeing these screenshots theyquickly changed their mind.
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August 18, 2011
Spoiling Gears of War 3 before its officially released? Well meet Epic's Ban Hammer.
Lets say you got yourself some kind of leaked copy of Gears of War 3, and you decided to take the epic content you saw from Epic's Games's Gears of War 3 and decided to be an epic spoiler for everyone and posted it on Youtube or Gametrailers. Well, mister-spoil-everything-for-everyone, considered yourself banned from the Epic game forever.
When a pre-released version of Gears of War 3 was leaked in July, Rod Fergusson of Epic Games said that he and his
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August 17, 2011
id Software states that you must buy a new Rage if you want to use the sewers.
A number of publishers are cutting off game content with things like online passes (one-time use code that be generally unavailable to those who buy any game used). Usually this cuts off things like online multiplayer or highly praised game content. In this case, Rage won't.
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August 17, 2011
Analyst Predicts Good September due to Gears of War 3 and Madden releases
Mentioned here on The Escapist online magazine, Arvind Bhata, an financial analyst with Sterne Agee, stated that while July was probably one the worst months in the video game industry and August not looking too bright as well, September will be a large improvement with the release of big titles like Gears of War and Madden 2012.
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August 12, 2011
James "Hawkprey" Hawkins, the artist behind Gears of War
Ever notice that Epic Games line of games' artwork and style have a lot in common? For example, Gears of War has a Unreal Tournament vibe to it as well as Bulletstorm. Well it's no coincidence as those games have the same artist behind it. That artist is known as James "Hawkprey" Hawkins.
Hawkins is the concept artists at Epic Games and was part of establishing the look for all its games.
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August 12, 2011
UK-based GOW3 fan makes a lancer out of a NERF dart gun to auction for charity.
While there has been NERF lancers done before in the past, some people try to surpass one another by adding more detail or doing something different from others. As seen here on Kotaku, someone has gone the distance and made their NERF lancer customization a full automatic, different from the semi-automatics lancers that were customized out of NERF