Gears of War is unanimously one of the flagship titles for any of Microsoft’s consoles. To date, the franchise combined has sold over twenty-two million copies – grossing in just over $1 Billion dollars. With this acquisition, Microsoft hopes to continue giving the fans even more Gears of War games and merchandise. Currently, there are four Gears of War titles but it’s likely we can expect to see more news on this soon – perhaps E3? We...
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Gears Of War Free Now, Via Games with Gold
Microsoft’s Games with Gold campaign keeps chugging along like the little engine that could. This month is no exception as one of the big hitting exclusive games, Gears Of War – released Nov. 7th, 2006, will be free from December 1st through December 15th. When Gears Of War was first announced, it dropped the jaw of many gamers. It spent its fair share of time in the Top 10 leaderboards of Xbox Live gaming activity and rightly so. While...
Continue reading...Gears of War: Judgment VIP Season Pass Announced
As with the trends of modern day gaming, not that I’m a huge fan of some of these deals, Epic Games announced today that Gears Of War: Judgment will be receiving the Season Pass treatment. Saving you approximately 20% if you were to buy them all separate, the Season Pass will include six multiplayer maps, two new modes, new weapons, armour skins and weapon skins. Here is a more detailed list for what is in the Judgment Season...
Continue reading...Cliff Bleszinski Is Saying Goodbye To Epic Games
The co-founder of Epic Games, the company behind the Gears of War and Unreal Tournament franchises, Cliff Bleszinski, is finally leaving his comfy office seat. It seems that, like Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka of BioWare, Bleszinski is deciding to write a new chapter in his life story. Founder of Epic Games Tim Sweeney states, “In 20 wonderful years with Epic, Cliff Bleszinski has grown into a true design luminary, and his contributions to the Unreal and Gears series...
Continue reading...Gears Of War: Judgement Trailers Show Off Free-For-All
Gears Of War: Judgement is set to release early next year, March 19th to be exact. To get you excited about the next installment in the Gears franchise we have a couple new videos showing off some deathmatch action.
Continue reading...Gears of War: Judgement Arrives March 2013
The collaborative effort between Epic Games & People Can Fly to bring a fourth Gears of War title to the Xbox 360 will all payoff when the game is released next March. Appearing on G4’s Xplay Twitter account Epic’s Rod Fergusson let the word out that the game is due to be released in less than 8 months time. Gears of War: Judgetment was revealed at this year’s E3 and follows Baird and Cole prior to the...
Continue reading...Gears of War 3 Contest
We’ve decided to reboot our Gears of War 3 contest. In retrospect, starting such a contest in the first week of our existence was a bad call. Also, the requirements and the mountain of legalese were probably unhelpful. Here is the new setup for the contest. We’ll give away 3 copies of Gears of War 3 once we’ve reached 500 likes on Facebook. After that number has been reached, people will have a few days to enter...
Continue reading...Shadow Complex and Indie Bundle Giveaways
We’re going to mix things up a little today. For starters, we’re giving away two copies of the XBLA game Shadow Complex. You’ll find those codes hidden in our articles or on Twitter. Also, we’ll be giving away a few indie bundles today via our steam group (2 indie gala bundles and 1 Indie Royal bundle). Finally, be sure to check out our Facebook page for additional giveaways. Here are the instructions for redeeming XBLA codes: Sign...
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If there is one thing we at Broken Joysticks love besides video games, it’s creativity. Good films, timeless literature, mind boggling abstract paintings, and performance artists covering themselves with live fire ants rarely fails to stimulate our right brains. However, it recently came to our attention that driving Chainsaw Bayonets into the necks of locusts is also stimulating. This realization, which sparked a prairie fire in the staff’s collective unconscious, convinced us to combine the two. Thus,...
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