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Can The Headshot Be Replaced?
Headshots are ruining games. Think about the arsenal they give you in Splinter Cell. Think about the remote camera, the sticky mines, the grenades, and EMPs, and all this other stuff, shotguns and assault rifles…and you went through the entire game using the default pistol and then the upgraded version of the default pistol, ’cause ...
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Do You Know How To Play Torque Bow Tag?
No? Shit, son, you’re gonna have to learn on your feet then, because Labor Day weekend’s Gears 2 XP event is incidentally torque bow tag day, too. Proving to us that he’s mentally insane via a 25x XP event isn’t enough for Rod Fergusson, executive producer of the Gears franchise. Nope. “Labor Day Horde = ...
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Do You Have Your Gears 2 Wings Yet?
If not, you may want to get on that–Rod Fergusson, Gears of War executive producer, is teasing some sort of prize in Gears 3 for players who have attained the 100th level on Gears 2 multiplayer. “Trust me. Having your wings in Gears 2 will mean something to you in Gears 3. Nuff said,” notes ...
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Gears 3 Looks GOOD In Action
Normally, footage gamers see is not reflective of what we actually get to play: we’re plagued with an abundance of misleading CGI animation. There are, of course, some exceptions to this rule: Gears 3 is an example of a game that looks nearly as good in-play as it does in CGI. Don’t believe me? Just ...
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Carmine Might Be Saved! 'Save Carmine' Shirts Outselling 'Kill Carmine' Shirts on XBL
Look at this badass. Look at this fucking badass. That is NOT a guy you want to kill. That’s a guy you want on your team, a guy you’d probably stop to watch every time he decides to curbstomp someone. He carries a grinder with a single hand and he’s taking a chokeslam to an ...
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Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most Out of Gears Of War's Horde Mode
I had sworn to keep away from Gears after playing Battlefield, but the 20x experience event this weekend sucked me back in. Gears has a handful of map-packs, and some of my friends hadn’t gotten the respective achievements for them–the insane experience gain this weekend rekindled interest in attaining them. With the Horde overload from ...
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Buy Your Save/Kill Carmine Shirt Online
Those of you that will be casting your vote to decide Carmine’s fate, good news: you don’t have to buy your avatar fake clothes anymore, because the Comic-Con shirts have appeared online, and you can buy them here. If you’re going to buy one, I’d get on this fast because there are probably very limited ...
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Vanquish is Visceral
The last few days have seen a bevy of new information released for Platinum Game’s upcoming third-person shooter Vanquish, and we’re here to tell you all about the new details. “I wanted people to really feel the action going on during the game” said lead designer Shinji Mikami, in a recent fan-interview. This idea is ...
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Will Carmine Live? Or Die? You Choose His Fate For Gears of War 3!
This isn’t ‘vote or die,’ people, this is actually serious business. So, we have the Carmine curse, right? There’s one Carmine brother left, and we get to decide his fate. “It’s not easy being a Carmine. In fact, it’s often fatal—just ask Anthony or Benjamin. Oh wait, you can’t. They’re dead. With the release of ...
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Watch Gears of War 3's Beast Mode in Action
Honestly, I have no idea how I missed this clip during E3. Things of note: You see a new weapon in action. It shoots something underground, and this travels a short distance, and then explodes. This explosion can kill multiple enemies. Then again, can you name any special weapon in Gears which isn’t OP in ...
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Fable 3 Bigger than Gears, Crackdown, Halo, More
…according to dear ol’ Peter Molyneux, anyway. “Fable, because it is part-simulation, part-role-playing game, part-action-adventure… it’s got more voice acting, a bigger cast, more musical scores, a bigger, freer world – more so than any other game in the whole of Microsoft Game Studios’ portfolio, full stop,” he says. A pretty cheap shot, I think, ...
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Vanquish Gameplay Is Over-The-Top
More and more I realize the genius of this game: it is crunchy in every single sense of the word. Various things of note: slidy roadie run. Slo-mo action while in the air. A morphing suit. Giant mechs. Is it just me, or do the voices sound like the voice actors from Gears of War, ...
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In Praise of Being Praised
It all began in the confessionary. Graham was telling us how he almost stopped playing videogames forever (I don’t think he would though) when we started debating about how to algebraically measure a game. It eventually came down to issues related to in-game grinding, which led to issues related to grinding for achievement points. I ...
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Brumak Roar: This is How they do it?
CliffyB, probable father to dude of all dudes Nathan Drake, posted a link on his twitter of a video showcasing a motion capture take for his upcoming title, Gears of War 3. See it below: It’s a mocap for the Brumak, and it’s “menacing” roar. Now, I don’t know about you, but I had no ...
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Taking A Look at Hunted: The Demon Forge
We talk a lot about Gears here, and with good reason: say what you might about the game, but its influence on the industry has been great. Here, too, we see its influence: Hunted has widely been called a dungeon crawler for the Gears of War age. Take a look at this trailer to see ...
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New Gears of War 3 Enemies Detailed
Game Reactor has details on GoW3′s new enemy types, which we have reproduced for you here along with transcriptions of what the LQ descriptions on the images say. SAVAGE LOCUST: “Everyone is stranded now, even the Locust. Flooded out of their underground Hollow when Jacinto was sunk, some have become separated from what’s left of ...
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Taste Testing: Imulsion Energy Drink
Drink, drank. Today I became a man. By which I mean today I had an ‘Imulsion,’ an energy drink based off that yellow stuff in Gears that makes baddies extra….bad. Yes, if you did not perceive it yet, something is wrong with me right now. You see, I had this drink last night at around ...
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Gears of War Title Update 6 Drops Today
Adding to the long-list of game fixes and improvements which have dropped rather late in its lifespan, today marks the day in which Gears 2 receives its biggest title update yet. Introduced today are ‘social matches’ which allow players to drop in and out of matches that are in progress without penalty. However, players who ...
