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#gearsofwar They won't call it Gears of War 4 and they don't call it Gears of War Karting, so what in the world is the name of the new Gears of War? More »

#jazzjackrabbit From 1991's ZZT to Gears of War, the history of Epic Games is sprayed across the walls of one particular staircase in the company's North Carolina offices. More »

#epicgames My trip to North Carolina to attend the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh last week was a ruse, a feint. My real target was a (mostly) unassuming office structure in the Raleigh suburb of Cary, the birthplace of some of the greatest games of the past decade. More »

#watchthis Unlike in-game marriages, real-life marriages can be problematic when video games are involved. More »

#deadspace A lot of games set out to tell engaging stories. Some use a narrator, lots of cutscenes or branching dialogue systems. Others embed plot points in the environment. Success rates vary, of course. But what's the worst storytelling in video games? Why, Gears of War, says Dead Space story producer Chuck Beaver. More »

Epic Games may be best known for the awesome Jazz Jackrabbit, but it seems like they’re ready to move on to other things. Other things on the PC, apparently. Epic’s newly teased PC-only project has, in all seriousness, been a long time in coming. ”We might be working on a PC-only title,” Epic president Mike Capps said during a PAX panel (via Joystiq). Bleszinski then drove the point home in his trademark chainsaw-gun-like fashion. “Let me say that again: we are working on a PC game.” Apparently, it’s an unannounced project, so that probably rules out the Minecraft-inspired Fortnite. Epic’s staying tight-lipped beyond that, but for now “existent” is a step in the right direction.

Free-to-play Unreal Tournament? Why, that would just be wild speculation…

#unrealengine The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using the Unreal Engine to create simulations and other training programs, BBC News reports today. More »

#gearsofwar It's not only smaller, younger developers who have to worry about cloning. Idea theft is on the minds of the people at Epic Games, too. Even though they make big, burly games like Gears of War and Bulletstorm, the developer still sees themselves as an indie, said Epic CEO Tim Sweeney. People could try and do what Epic does, he offered, but the studio's titles have size on their size. More »

#thehorror If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face. More »

#gearsofwar You can already play with, erm, collect action figures from Epic Games' hit sci-fi shooters. But if you've wanted to set up any vehicular battles with transports from that universe, you've been out of luck. That's about to change. More »

#papercraft Some time ago we shared the papercraft wonder that was Leo Firebrand's Fallout 3 homage: the laser pistol. Paper (and some papier-mâché for the gun handle) alone yielded a believable piece of the post-apocalypse. More »

#xboxlive This announcement oughta go over like a turd in a punchbowl. Seems that on Jan. 1, Xbox Live is taking guns away from all avatars. That is according to Epic Games' community manager, who in a reminder to Gears of War fans said that if they don't have the Lancer or Hammerburst avatar props, they better run go get strapped because all guns are verboten after the new year. More »

#gearsofwar New skins? Yup. Fresh maps to battle it out on? Check. But, on January 17th, the third update to Epic Games' best-selling shooter will brings a new multiplayer mechanic that'll seem very, um, familiar to players of the Call of Duty games. More »

#fortnite They teased it earlier this week and tonight on the VGAs, the makers of Gears of War 3 revealed their newest game. Called Fortnite, it appears to expand on the fortification/tower defense mechanics introduced in Gears of War 3 with an all-new art style that leaves the gritty, steroidal look of previous Epic games behind. We'll have more on Fortnite when we learn it. More »

#gearsofwar All you Kremlinologists who like to parse secrets out of video clips are SOL on this one. The teasing's strictly of the verbal variety as Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski hints an all-new game during a promo for the upcoming Spike Video Game Awards. Viewers don't get much to work with, other than clips of Gears of War and Infinity Blade games. With sequels for both of those franchises recently released, we can probably rule out. In the tweet that Spike's Geoff Keighley sent out earlier today, the game was called "a surprise new franchise." All Bleszinski says is that it's an "entirely fresh new experience" which seems to indicate that it'll be a new franchise. Hmm. More »

#gearsofwar A student in Milton Keynes, England paid a full bus fare for Marcus Fenix. No, really. Carrying home a life-size cardboard display of the Gears of War protagonist, Liam Sheridan was told by the driver his monthly bus pass didn't cover his companion. More »

#gearsofwar RAAM's Shadow, the second downloadable extension to Gears of War 3, is due to arrive Dec. 13, but its six new multiplayer skins have already been exposed through the game's character-selection stage. More »

#dlc There's an argument, a very good argument, that whenever a game launches with downloadable content alongside it, that's a bad thing, because that content could either have gone into the game itself or the energy spent making it could have been used making the game better. More »

#callofduty Fending off challenges from Gears of War 3 and Battlefield 3 during their launch weeks, Call of Duty: Black Ops at last met its match this past week—in its successor, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. More »

#gearsofwar Triforce, the same guys behind that awesome 1:1 Mass Effect rifle, are also releasing a 1:1 weapon from the Gears of War universe. More »

#xbox720 The next Xbox hasn't been announced. There have been hints and rumors, but nothing official. Regardless, it is coming, and game designers, like the rest of us, have a laundry list of things they want. Gears of War Cliff Bleszinski is no different. More »

#gearsofwar Animation team Kooberz Studios figured, you know, all LEGO ever cover is kid's franchises. There's never anything with real gore in it. So they whipped up their own LEGO Gears of War video. More »

#gearsofwar All this time, I'd thought that there'd nothing more satisfying than the close-up carnage of the Gears of War franchise's signature weapon, Surely, nothing could surpass ripping a Locust or Lambent attacher to shreds with the chainsaw bayonet of the Lancer gun. But there is such a thing, friends. More »

#fineart There's an established, if corny description of the art of Gears of War: "destroyed beauty". I don't like typing it, I especially don't like hearing it. Beauty doesn't need to be defined like that because even the most smashed up thing in the universe can be beautiful if someone simply thinks it is. More »

#walmart Reader billdcon spied Resistance 3 and Gears of War 3 hot-bunking a PS3 kiosk at his local Walmart. "Not pictured, people asking for Gears for PS3, and Walmart employees actually looking all around to try to find a copy," says billdcon. We'll believe him. More »

#gearsofwar LEGO builder extraordinare PLUM B has built this life-sized replica of a Gears of War Lancer rifle that doesn't just look the part, it shoots the part as well. More »

Gaming's reached a turning point. Western games have more realistic graphics and physics than Japanese games. This isn't good or bad. It's true. More »

#gearsofwar One of Mexico's largest newspapers apparently turns to Google image search for its graphics as much as the next guy, as evidenced by this lovely picture of Gears of War 3 for the PlayStation 3 found inside today's issue. More »

#gearsofwar Gears of War 3 is full of surprises. The game has multiple easter eggs and hidden secrets, but now we are bringing you the most ridiculous of the bunch in an easy-to-follow video. Watch our guide to see Cole's innocent moment of joy amidst the carnage. Have fun! More »

#gearsofwar3 We already knew you could turn on mature language and gore filters for Gears of War 3, but here's a look at how that language censor works in action. More »