Cliff Bleszinski has announced that Gears of War 3 will have some special unlocks that will bring a smile to the faces of Epic Games’ fans. If you have played other Epic titles like Shadow Complex, UT3, Gears and Bulletstorm, Gears 3 will recognise saves from those titles and unlock content in the game. We’re not exactly sure what the unlocks will be yet, but it appears they will cross Read More ...
Epic has officially lifted the lid on Infinity Blade, the first iPhone game to run on the Unreal Engine. This is the project previously known as “Project Sword”, a tech demo of which was released on the app store entitled “Epic Citadel”. It’s currently in development over at Chair Entertainment, the team that brought us Shadow Complex on the Xbox Live Arcade. They’ve been working on the game for about Read More ...
Epic Games has announced that there will be a multiplayer beta for Gears of War 3. The beta will hit some time in early 2011. Epic has confirmed that the beta includes dedicated servers for ranked and social matchmaking games, just like the full game (also announced today). Dedicated servers will stop the host advantage madness of previous Gears of Wars and will apparently level the playing field. It’s not Read More ...
In a weird move today, Epic Games and Microsoft have decided that Gears of War 3 isn’t going to make its originally planned release in April 2011. Instead, the game will now be released in Fall 2011 “to make it the marquee title for the holiday season” (as quoted by the game’s PR team). So if Gears of War 3 will be the marquee title of the Fall rush, that Read More ...
Epic Games has confirmed that the Gears of War 3 ‘Fate of Carmine’ campaign has raised $150,000 for Child’s Play. The charity event ended September 1st and now Clayton Carmine’s fate has been sealed and avatar shirts brought from now on won’t count to the end result. It’s not currently known if shirt sales from September 1st onwards will still contribute to charity. Here’s a video of Cliff Bleszinski and Read More ...
Apple head honcho Steve Jobs has confirmed that Epic Games is working on their first game for Apple platforms. He was joined on stage at Apple’s press conference by Epic president Mike Capps today to show off “Project Sword”. It is a first-person action adventure game and will apparently offer “epic sword battles”. It will also support Game Centre. Epic will be licensing Project’s Sword’s engine out for other iOS Read More ...
Gamers will decide whether Clayton Carmine lives or dies in Gears of War 3. From 29th July, Microsoft will release two different T-shirts on the avatar marketplace. All the proceeds from the shirts will go to the Child’s Play charity. As you may have gathered by now, one will be supporting his death, emblazoned with “Carmine Must Die” on the front. The other will say “Save Carmine”. Whichever shirt sells Read More ...
Epic Games has detailed the new Beast mode for Gears of War 3. Beast is essentially Horde but in reverse, you play as a Locust and have to fight waves of human foes. There will be different classes of Locust to play as, and as you play through you will earn tokens that can be spent on upgrading your character along a development tree. One example of this is that Read More ...
Cliffy B and some folks from People Can Fly came out to demo some live gameplay of Bulletstorm at the EA E3 press conference. The trailer contains the usual for an FPS: chaos, carnage, explosions, fire, and miniguns. The game is shaping up really well, and will be released February 22nd 2011 on the PS3, 360 and PC. With both Epic and People Can Fly on development and EA publishing Read More ...
Microsoft has announced that Grammy nominated recording artist “Drake” will be voicing Jace Stratton in Gears of War 3. Drake’s debut album “Thank Me Later” is released on June 14. His in-game character in Gears 3 is playable as part of the four player co-op campaign. “Jace is a central character in the comic books, so he was an obvious choice as a character we wanted to bring into the Read More ...
Epic Games has announced that they will be having a 6x XP week for Gears of War 2 during E3 next week. The game has seen less players partaking in multiplayer proceedings recently so it looks like this move is to try to bring them back. It will run from 9AM EDT June 14th until 9AM EDT June 21st.
Epic Games managed to make due with a trifold of promotions this week. First there’s a new title update adding ‘social matches’ to the multiplayer mayhem. This allows individual players or parties to drop in or out of ongoing games and yes this includes Horde matches. The other tiny little detail is you can only use this feature if you have all of the games map packs which is another Read More ...
Epic Games have released a new title update for Gears of War 2. This is the sixth update for the game, and adds Social Xbox Live Matches. They are available to players that have downloaded all the DLC map packs for Gears of War 2. Apparently, the All Fronts Collection DLC will be reduced to encourage more people to play it. Social Matches are joinable mid-game, and gamers are allowed Read More ...
Uber Entertainment has confirmed that it has licensed Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 for their upcoming title “Monday Night Combat”. The game is a class-based third person shooter that mixes combat and finishing moves with game-show esque challenges and rewards. Players can fight for cash, fame and endorsements in the career and online modes. Monday Night Combat is released later this year on the Xbox Live Arcade. “The Unreal Engine has Read More ...
Microsoft has announced that Gears of War 3 will be released on April 5th 2011 in North America and Asia, April 7th in Japan and April 8th in Europe. They say the game will be the “epic story finale to the “Gears of War” trilogy”. Epic Games are once again developing the 360 exclusive. The main focus this time round is the human race fighting to avoid extinction after their Read More ...
