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Gears of War 3 Release Date Announced February 23, 2011

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When the first Gears of War game was released, I couldn’t play it. Not because I couldn’t get a copy, but because I didn’t have an Xbox 360. At that time, 66% of Xbox 360s started breaking for no reason and mine was part of that statistic. Also at the time, Microsoft refused to acknowledge they made a defective product and you had to pay for repairs and shipping out of your own pocket.

I was in the middle of waiting for a working 360 when Gears of War released. My friend Twitch (who you’ll be hearing more from later) was in the market for a new HDTV at the time and the TV store he was working at assured him he was more than welcome to test how his 360 played on the TVs. On the day Gears of War released, we went together to get a chance to play the game on the most expensive big screens at the time.

When we plugged into the home theater room and broadcasted our Gears of War session to the premium big screens, I think we ended up selling a few TVs. An elderly couple interested in a big screen DLP was relieved the images on it were from our game and wasn’t real. They told us they thought they were looking at the Iraq war.

Gears of War 3 will launch September 20th, 2011 exclusive to the Xbox 360.

Dead Space 2 Severed Coming March 1st February 23, 2011

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The first major single player campaign DLC for Dead Space 2 finally has a release date.

As previously reported, the game stars two of the main characters from the PS3/Wii rail-shooter Dead Space Extraction (Gabe Weller and Lexine) and you’ll be able to play as Gabe in this single player campaign.  You can also expect some familiar enemies from Dead Space that weren’t in Dead Space 2, like the twitch necromorph, to make an appearance..

I’m plenty excited to play this expansion.  The story in Dead Space Extraction was very well fleshed out and because of that the tension was much higher.   The four main characters, as well as the secondary characters, were all well written, and their voice actors’ performances capped this off (and it sounds like they’re returning).  I want to play this just to find out what happened to the old gang.

Dead Space 2 Severed is coming March 1st, 2011 for the Xbox 360 and the PS3 (March 2nd Internationally).  It will cost $6.99 US or 560 MS points.  You will need a copy of Dead Space 2 to play.

YouTube Changes February 23, 2011

Posted by Maniac in Site News.
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For those of you who have wondered why I didn’t post any content yesterday, especially after what I promised on the twitter feed yesterday, you can blame YouTube for that.

They give and they take away it seems. I had an account which in December was granted the capabilities to post videos in excess of 15 minutes. Yesterday, when I tried to upload the first part of the series I had scheduled this week (a video of 22 minutes in length), it was rejected due to length. It seems my ability to post videos of any length was quietly taken away from me by YouTube. I have to this point posted videos in excess of 30 minutes over the past two months which are still active, so why can I no longer post videos of a reasonable length anymore?

YouTube did not provide any explanation to why they took away my 15+ minute ability. My account is in good standing and has not been blocked. Nor did I post too many videos in excess of that time duration while I could.

Regardless, the fact I’m currently limited to 15 minute videos again will severely impact video uploads, and some series like “So, What Happened?” will have to be re-examined.

I wish I had better news to report, but I was planning an entire series this week which was already shot and partially edited (which I worked on with a new site contributor), and because of this it will have to be trashed.