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Gears of War 3: The Browner it gets, the angrier it becomes!

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(ZP Lays into Gears 3; didn’t really jive with Yahtzee apparently. Hasn’t stopped it selling like it had a recipe for gold out of lead inside it.) The week my Dad passed was extremely weird for me. Besides the obvious reasons, Gears 3 had come out and I got the big whoo-de-doo edition that has all this weird physical crap about Marcus’ father. I’ve got some sort of engraved COG award, old photos, Last Will and Testament, newspaper articles, etc. Really really creepy in terms… Continue reading →

Gears of War: The TOTALLY NECESSARY Board Game

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(Nothing says “I understand what the shooter demographic needs” quite like a board game of a video game.) No, seriously. This is for real. Gears of War: THE BOARD GAME. Novelizations were already a stretch, but they’re actually decent game nerd fiction. It’s not remotely important to the “story” of Gears in the way that Mass Effect’s books dance between the narrative within the franchise’s massive universe that much bigger, but if you’re entertained by a hopeless struggle of humanity against peculiar critters then shit…… Continue reading →

Gears of War 3: The WTF Edition, now with more flag!

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Gears 3 hits this September and since it’s both the conclusion of a trilogy and the only big name Microsoft has left exclusively in the stable anymore with Bungie as Activision’s bitch now and the Halo franchise floating around without its anchor developer or any significant sign of life aside from Servers still being online; Microsoft and Epic want this to be huge. Extra HUGE. So akin to Halo REACH, there’s a tier of special editions now: Normal (comes in a case!), Limited (comes in… Continue reading →

Silicon Knights V. Epic Games (cue fight music)

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(There’s scary stuff in the woods of the legal system, without any other developers backing their play Silicon Knights stands alone against one of the most powerful Developers in the world as their five-year-plus long struggle takes both entities before a trial by jury.) Silicon Knights: innovators, geniuses and game designers. Also, occasional plaintiffs. SK has had a longstanding feud with Epic Games over the ass-backwards distribution/support of the Unreal Engine that they just HAPPENED to work into Gears of War while Silicon Knights was… Continue reading →

Gears of War 3: On chainsaws and friendship

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(I wish I could enjoy ANYTHING as much as this guy…) Gears of War is an acquired taste up until the point that you figure out how to aim your weapons and how to fillet your way through dudes using a monstrous chainsaw bayonet. Walk with me guys as I fondly look back on some grisly acts done in the name of friendship, more videos and nostalgia after the cut…