Tag Archives: Gears of War 3

If you play games long enough, you start to notice a lot of similarities. “Hey, these games sure have a lot of chest-high walls.” “Wow, there sure are lots of games with zombies.” And so on. One thing you’ll also begin to notice is how many video game characters share …

Virtual pioneers In this digital age, society seems increasingly content to equate being first with being the best. So here–let me just preempt everyone reading this by saying “First!” right here and now. Of course, that won’t stop anyone; people just want to feel like they’re experiencing something before anyone …

So this one time… The flashback is a fairly standard narrative construct. In fact, it’s so frequently used that it’s become a rather dull cliche. Some games get around this by simply making the content of their flashback sequences flat-out brilliant, masking the hackneyed nature of the technique by filling …

We already know that there’s a new Gears of War (opens in new tab) game on the horizon. But speculation over the developer has been surrounded by conjecture and hearsay. Well, while the conjecture can’t end completely, we do now have official confirmation that Bulletstorm dev People Can Fly is …

Epic’s patched (opens in new tab) Gears of War 3 with the new Title Update 4, fixing a number of bugs that continued to mar the shooter’s sizable online component. It’s also left plenty more bugs rampaging unchecked for you to shoot on sight – but those are all “bugs” …

Blockbuster has always been a slow moving beast. When competition started offering movies by mail and streaming options it eventually followed suit, though it took its time doing so. But now, with its main competitor on the ropes for the first time in years, it is ready to pounce. In …

We won’t tease you for longer than this sentence – Gears of War 3 is awesome. The campaign is epic, with action sequences that are more intense, weapons that are more powerful, enemies that are more formidable and heroes that are more relatable than ever before. The multiplayer is extremely …

Entering Calibur11’s COG Armor Suit giveaway is as simple as picking up a Gears of War 3 Vault on launch day, digging out the entry code, and entering it at Calibur11’s website. Fans can also skip the purchasing part altogether and obtain a free code on the site after September …

Gears of War 3 is the end of a trilogy: you know that, no spoilers there, that’s how we do things nowadays. But if lots of people buy the title (and they will, thanks to an impeccable pedigree/advertising budget larger than the GDP of many countries), that’ll be a sign …

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