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GAME INFO publisher: Microsoft developer: Epic Games genre: Action MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS n/a	ESRB rating: M homepage: www.gearsofwar.com/ release date: Nov 07, 06 (released)

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	"Coalition" trailer		"Emergence" trailer
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Nov 13, 06

Gears of War review
Quick, what do you think about when someone mentions Epic Games' new Xbox 360 title, Gears of War? Me, I was worried about this game. Not because of the excessive violence or gore, I can live with that (and even enjoy it when the wife and kids aren't in the room)...

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»	Jul 28, 05 Gears of War Preview A short time ago, the Unreal Engine was the king of the hill when it came to PC graphics gaming engines. In fact, one of the tenets of PC gaming is that the graphics capabilities and game design... » MORE

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»	Jul 21, 2008 E3 2008: Gears of War 2 Hands-on Yep, we're a bit late with this one (and with two more previews, which are going to be up shortly). Suffice it to say, there are plenty of neat additions to the gameplay in Epic Games' shooter sequel. » MORE

»	Jul 08, 2008 Gears of War 2 Competitive Multiplayer Trailer, New Shots Epic Games offers a new wave of media from the soon-to-be-released shooter Gears of War 2, this time treating us to more footage from the game's competitive multiplayer. » MORE

»	Jun 30, 2008 Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Trailer Epic elaborates on the improvements and new features for the multiplayer mode in Gears of War 2. Have a look: Hm, those seem like fine additions for a multiplayer shooter. » MORE

Jun 26, 2008

Gears of War 2 Shots Galore
Epic Games releases quite a lot of fresh in-game snaperoonies from the Locust-infested sci-fi shooter Gears of War 2. Some of the shots we've received show a few scenes from the game's single-player campaign, while 15 shots display certain segments from the multiplayer portion of GoW 2.

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»	Jun 17, 2008 Gears of War Movie Gets Die Hard 4 Director Here's a quick update on the upcoming Gears of War flick. The latest scoop is that the GoW movie adaptation will be directed by Len Wiseman, as reported by a number of movie sites. » MORE

»	May 23, 2008 Gears of War 2 Okay, we all saw this coming a mile away. After the initial announcement at this year's GDC, more media and concrete info started showing up about Gears of War 2. » MORE

May 09, 2008

MS: Days of Sony Snowing the Customers Are Over
Microsoft says it's fed up with Sony's "snowing of the consumers and the press," adding that their rival has "failed to deliver on numerous promises." MS also challenges Sony’s latest European PS3 sales figures, and, probably, though this is not confirmed, spits in their general direction French-style.

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»	Apr 30, 2008 Gears of War 2 Keynote at Leipzig GCDC We just found out that Epic Games' Prez Dr. Michael Capps is going to give a keynote during this year's GCDC in Leipzig, Germany (Aug. 18-20). The focus of the keynote will be the status of the upcoming shooter Gears of War 2. » MORE

»	Apr 25, 2008 Bungie Working on 3rd Person Halo Prequel? Here's a quick report indicating that Bugnie's next project is a third-person Halo prequel "chronicling early skirmishes between the ODST troops and the Covenant" - so it's possibly a Halo game, but without Master Chief (sniff). » MORE

Apr 08, 2008

Gears of War 2 Details Emerge
The NeoGaf forums feature a naughty post revealing heaps of info from Epic's recently announced sequel to the popular shooter Gears of War. The update offers a rather detailed report on a preview from the May 2008 issue of GameInformer, disclosing stuff about the game's characters, plot and gameplay.

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»	Apr 02, 2008 Gears of War 2 at NY Comic Con The New York Comic Con has a special gamer summit lined up, with an opening presentation from Epic Games. The summit is scheduled for the last day of the Comic Con (April 20). » MORE

»	Mar 31, 2008 Gears of War Movie in 2010, Shot Like '300' Our friends over at ComingSoon.net are reporting that a film based on Epic's highly successful 360 shooter, Gears of War, should hit the cinemas in the US sometime in 2010. » MORE

»	Mar 26, 2008 Gears of War 2 Unreal Tech Trailer Another GDC '08 trailer for Gears of War 2 turns up. This one features key folks from Epic Games as they unveil some of the details regarding improvements to the Unreal technology. » MORE

»	Mar 25, 2008 Gears of War 2 GDC '08 Trailer Have a gander at a segment of the Gears of War 2 presentation at this year's GDC in San Francisco. Also, featured is CliffyB's theatrical entrance at the event, followed by the official announcement for the 360-exclusive shooter. » MORE

Mar 08, 2008

Top 50 Game Developers
What's this all about? Actually, it's a Top 50 Developers' Countdown on Game Developer Research, and it offers a "ranking of the top 50 developers in the areas of sales figures, releases, and average review scores, along with the full set of results from our survey of over 700 anonymous Game Developer- and Gamasutra.

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Feb 28, 2008

Resistance 2 Shots, Concept Art
Sony's answer to Gears of War 2? Whatever. I never even played the first one. People are already getting hyped over Resistance 2. Judging from the screenshots the game looks good, though still not good enough to make me want to purchase a PS3 console.

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»	Feb 25, 2008 Resistance 2 - Sony's Answer to Gears of War 2 Epic Games kept quiet about its Gears of War franchise, until recently that is, when the developer revealed it's going to bring a full-on sequel to the popular 360 shooter in November this year. » MORE

»	Feb 21, 2008 Gears of War 2 Teaser The confirmation on Gears of War 2 was made yesterday at the GDC. Now, you can have a gander at the teaser trailer (you may view the HD edition here): » MORE

»	Feb 20, 2008 Gears of War 2 in November '08 Bring on the testosterone. Time for another GoW. Epic Games vice president Mark Rein recently denied that Epic made any announcements related to a full sequel to Gears of War. » MORE

»	Feb 05, 2008 Gears of War 2? Codswallop, Says Rein Yesterday we let you guys know about Gears of War 2 popping up on the front page of GamePro magazine. Okay, I realize plenty of you out there cheered at the prospects of a full sequel to GoW, but alas so far, it's far from being true. » MORE

»	Feb 04, 2008 Gears of War 2 on Mag Cover, More Info Soon? US gaming mag GamePro revealed the cover for its new issue and, as it happens, the cover has Gears of War 2 highlighted amongst the key features, next to titles like Ninja Gaiden 2, Too Human and so on. » MORE

»	Jan 23, 2008 New GTA IV Screens, More Gameplay Details Uncovered Rockstar releases additional information regarding their latest GTA iteration. Grand Theft Auto IV seems to be shaping along just fine, according to several updates across the Web - you can read one of them right here. » MORE

Nov 28, 2007

Gears of War Patched
BeyondUnreal has word that Microsoft has issued a patch for Gears of War PC, which can be downloaded through the Windows Live service. They add: "While there is as of yet no official changelog for this patch, we did squeeze the following information out of Microsoft.

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»	Nov 19, 2007 Call of Duty 4 Overtakes Gears of War on Live Yep, according to Major Nelson, Call of Duty 4 outmatched GoW and is currently the (second) most popular game on Live. Halo 3 still reigns supreme. Here's the entire top 10: 1. » MORE

Nov 07, 2007

Gears of War Ships
MS announced that Epic's shooter Gears of War is finally arriving to PCs and should hit store shelves this week in XP and Vista variants. In case you're wondering, the PC version features 5 new campaigns, additional multiplayer modes and Games for Windows – LIVE support for online multiplayer gameplay sessions.

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»	Oct 19, 2007 Gears of War PC Golden Finally a bit of good news for PC gamers (God knows we ain't getting many of those these days). Gears of War for the PC has gone gold and will be hitting North American stores November 6. » MORE

»	Oct 09, 2007 Games for Windows LIVE Update Coming MS is talking about plans for a November update for Games for Windows LIVE to bring the company's online service to version 1.2. The update is going to entail the following: The Games for Windows – LIVE v1. » MORE

»	Oct 05, 2007 Gears of War Movie on Ice? We were talking yesterday about Cliffy B's views on the possible cast for the New Line produced Gears of War movie. It looks like the game's lead designer won't have much to worry about -- the film may not get made at all. » MORE

»	Oct 04, 2007 Gears of War PC Coming Nov. 6 The Shackers (thanks, Blue) have a preview of the PC version of Gears of War up, and the word is, the game is coming out on November 6. I'm forcing myself through the 360 version just because I have nothing better to play. » MORE

»	Oct 01, 2007 Halo 3 Beats Gears of War on Xbox Live Bungie's Halo 3 finally tops Epic's Gears of War, as the most played game on Xbox Live. That's according to Major Nelson's latest top-10 list of most played Xbox Live games, for the week ending on Sept. » MORE

»	Sep 28, 2007 Gears of War Still Dominates Xbox Live Major Nelson's latest top-10 list confirms that Gears of War is still the most played game on Xbox Live. 1. Gears of War 2. Call of Duty 4 (Beta) 3. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 4. » MORE

»	Sep 25, 2007 BAFTA Awards: Crysis vs. BioShock We've just learned that the contenders for the British Academy Video Games Awards have been announced and it seems both Crysis and BioShock (amongst other titles) are competing in the Best Game category. » MORE

»	Sep 03, 2007 TimeShift Demo on Xbox Live Xbox Live Marketplace (likely only the North American version) has been updated with a 582MB demo of Sierra and Saber Interactive's shooter, TimeShift. » MORE

»	Aug 20, 2007 Epic Buys People Can Fly, Working on New IP Epic Games buys a majority stake in People Can Fly, a Polish game development studio who are known for their fast-paced shooter game, Painkiller. People Can Fly have also been working with Epic on the PC edition of Gears of War. » MORE

»	Aug 03, 2007 Gears of War (PC) Footage Check this out. A new movie for Gears of War (PC) has just been released, showing off more footage from the upcoming PC version of Epic's popular shooter. » MORE

Jul 27, 2007

Gears of War PC Content Not Coming to 360
As a hardcore PC gamer in heart, you won't see me shedding any tears over this. Nonetheless, Xbox 360 owners who prefer their console over the PC won't be happy to hear that the additional Gears of War content that's going into the PC version won't be making it to the 360 as well.

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Jul 20, 2007

Details Surface on Silicon vs. Epic Legal Fight
Gamasutra has gotten hold of a copy of the lawsuit, revealing the nasty details in the dispute between Silicon Knights, creators of Too Human, and Epic Games, creators of the Unreal Engine 3, which they licensed to Silicon Knights for Too Human.

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»	Jul 17, 2007 Gears of War Online Only Via Windows Live C&VG bears the mildly disturbing news that in order to play Gears of War multiplayer and co-op on the PC, you will simply have to sign up to Games for Windows - Live. » MORE

»	Jul 12, 2007 E3 2007: Gears of War PC Hands-on After all the hype surrounding Cliffy B's next endeavor, Gears of War PC, we finally get a chance to witness the game first hand. Check out our impressions of the PC multiplayer build. » MORE

»	Jul 11, 2007 E3 2007: Gears of War PC New Content Everyone's raving about it, so here's the official word... finally. Gears of War, Epic Games' ridiculously popular shooter for the 360, is at long last heading to the PC (as you all know). » MORE

»	Jul 07, 2007 Gears of War (Vista) Footage Read it and weep. I know it's a slightly depressing thought, but here's the first footage (leaked GameTrailers.com E3 video that ended up on Youtube) from Gears of War running under Windows Vista. » MORE

»	Jun 09, 2007 Halo 3 Expected to be Bigger Than Gears of War Yeah, we pretty much knew that. Anyhow, the guys at GameSpy conducted an interview with Microsoft's Shane Kim on Halo 3. Here's what he had to say: GameSpy: Gears of War was very successful for you. » MORE

»	Jun 04, 2007 Gears of War Comic Book It appears Boom Studios is about to publish an official Gears of War comic book, beginning with a #0 issue in August 2007 - that's according to the latest Diamond Comics catalog. » MORE

May 02, 2007

Buy New Multiplayer Maps for Gears of War
Gears of War fans rejoice? ...Because you are faced with yet another lame selling of multiplayers maps for money. At least until September. "Quartet of new multiplayer arenas for Microsoft's sci-fi third-person shooter will cost gamers 800 Microsoft points ($10) until September 3, free after that.

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»	Apr 26, 2007 JoWooD to Invade Next-Gen Consoles JoWooD in their infinite wisdom has announced plans to port a bunch of their games, or rather to bring a bunch of their "commercially successful" properties to the next-gen consoles, the 360, PS3 and Wii. » MORE

»	Apr 10, 2007 Tiny, Tiny Bit on Gears of War Movie Every time I hear about a new game franchise turning into a movie, I immediately think of the one person destined to handle the task - Uwe Boll. I can't help it you see. » MORE

»	Apr 09, 2007 Gears of War Content Held Hostage Apparently, the much-delayed downloadable content for Gears of War is, according to Epic's outspoken VP Mark Rein, being held up by Microsoft, who actually wants to charge for it. » MORE

»	Mar 29, 2007 'Gears of War' Tourney Announced Online tournaments are a big thing these days. And so, "Gamers looking to prove they are among the best in the world at the multiplayer portion of Gears of War should start greasing up their chainsaws. » MORE

»	Mar 21, 2007 New Line Buys 'Gears of War' Movie Rights New Line Cinema received feature rights to Epic Games' highly successful X360 shooter Gears of War, with Stuart Beattie writing the adaptation and Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey producing via their Temple Hill banner. » MORE

»	Mar 12, 2007 Top 10 Played Xbox Live! Games In case you were wondering, here are the top-10 played Xbox 360 games for all you folks who are Live! enabled: Xbox 360 Top Live Titles 1. Gears of War 2. » MORE

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