All hope isn’t lost for action games with guns in Japan. Acclaimed creator of Final Fantasy and now Blue Dragon, Sakguchi-san, said he is a fan of Gears of War. Also you Microsoft spent extra time to polish Epic’s game up with Japanese voiceovers and promote it with an interesting set of viral videos. To [...]

From March 30-April 1st the Hyatt Regency in Anaheim is going to be the home of a BYOC (bring your own computer) LAN party sponsored by Buy.com. At the event players can enter tournaments for the following games for $25 per person. Here are what games players can enter tournaments for:   Counter-Strike 1.6 Gears [...]

In the USA we’re lucky enough to get games localized in English. Japan isn’t always as fortunate to get games in their language. At times subtitles are slapped over English voice acting and a game is thrown on a shelf. Microsoft made sure that didn’t happen with Gears of War, they have a whole new [...]

At Microsoft’s CERO Z Game for Adults fiesta they premiered Gears of War, Riot Act (Crackdown), the Godfather and Vampire Rain to the public. Gamers over 18 could come to the event and try out the games at game stations. While this isn’t an official party for Gears of War, the CERO Z fest is [...]

Data straight from the NPD revealed that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was the top selling “next-generation” console in the United States this past holiday season. The 360 outsold the Wii and Playstation 3 combined in December. It also outsold all other next generation consoles in November and December. The increase in sales led to a 51% [...]

The two new maps “Raven Down” and “the Museum” are available now on Xbox Live. Before you log in and play watch this clip with Cliffy B talking about the two new maps. He gives some basic strategies and talks about the setting of each of them.

  Typically the CERO Z (equivalent to the AO ESRB rating) has been taboo, but instead of shunning it Microsoft is celebrating it. On January 12 in Akihabara’s UDX 3D Theater Microsoft is having an Adult Games Fiesta. At the event are six CERO Z games: Gears of War, Vampire Rain, The Godfather, Riot Act [...]

In only six weeks Gears of War managed to sell two million copies worldwide. That makes Gears the fastest selling Xbox exclusive game of all time. Besides making money on software sales Gears of War has increased the number of people who signed on to Xbox Live. Since the game’s launch paid registrations per day [...]

After an image from PC Gamer popped up with Gears of War box art and the Games For Windows bar over the box speculation begun that Gears was going to be a PC game. Gamerscoreblog explains that’s not exactly the case.   “Here’s what happened: These images were created using draft templates for the Games [...]

No game is perfect and Gears of War is no exception. Since the game appeared on store shelves last week glitches have been popping up on YouTube. One glitch makes pieces of the world disappear and reappear. Other glitches found in the game include a bug that grants unlimited ammunition and a problem with the [...]

  Maybe its hype is so great that it can never live up to it, but I felt that Gears of War was underwhelming. It was visually gorgeous, but it looked about the same as Half-Life 2 on max settings, only dirtier and grittier. One chapter in the single player campaign reminded me of the [...]

Something we missed out on seeing were the celebrities attending the party earlier that night. Apparently Lindsay Lohan, Kevin Federman and Jonathan Davis from Korn were around. We have some celeb pictures, Gamerscoreblog has a bunch more. Who wouldn’t want to see a deathmatch between Lindsay Lohan and Cliffy B?    

At the event I had a little time at the end of the night to try out the game’s single player mode and I taped a clip of the first movie in the game. Unfortunately there is no sound because it was shot in the middle of the party and the audio was wired into [...]

12AM PST on a Wednesday night. Most people are sleeping, but on Santa Monica Boulevard Microsoft is busing in gamers for the Gears of War launch party. After a truck ride to the crypt and playing a couple of multiplayer rounds I had a conversation with Preston Thorne the QA manager of Gears of War. [...]