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One Year Passed…Thank You March 4, 2011

Posted by Maniac in Site News.
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It occurred to me just a few moments ago that today marks exactly one year since I actvated this website, and my obligatory Hello World post confirmed that.

It has been one heck of a year.  There have been articles, videos, news, controversies, secessions, revolutions, but more than that there have been games, games and more games.

I don’t really have anything further I want to say about the site or my thoughts on the past year right now, but if anything there are a few people I want to thank, this is mostly in chronological order.

Matt Jersey – For contributing the awesome banner you see above you, thanks a bunch Matt!

diskreader117 – For being the first person I knew who was willing to be IN FRONT of a camera.

anachronos – For being a great friend and mentor for the past ten years, and for all your contributions to the site, if you ever want to go to E3 Ruben, you just have to ask.

E3 Expo – For letting me in.

The Unknown Cameraman – For being an enigma, and a damn good handheld cameraman.

And finally…

Thank you to all the site regulars.  You’ve seen my articles and videos and you just keep visiting!  I hope to be seeing more of you.

Gears of War 3 Beta Dated March 4, 2011

Posted by Maniac in Game News.
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Microsoft has announced that the beta for the highly anticipated Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War 3 will activate April 18th for people who own the Xbox 360 version of Bulletstorm and April 25th for everyone else.  It will end on May 15th.

Unusual to beta tests, Epic promises that certain stats and goodies earned from the beta will carry over to the final version of the game.  Playing any match earns you a beta tester medal for your profile.  Finishing a match before April 24th will earn you the Hammerburst Weapon, finishing one match during the week of April 25th will get you a Flaming Lancer weapon, the week of May 9th will get you the Flaming Gnasher Shotgun.

There will also be other goodies.  Completing 50 matches will get you an exclusive trashball Cole multiplayer skin.  You will need to play 10 more matches with it on to unlock it for the final game.

Finally there will be the exclusive Golden Lancer which is unlocked for playing 90 multiplayer games.  To keep it in the final game, you must kill one hundred enemies with it while unlocked.

Epic has also announced the game will come in three versions.  The standard edition for $59.99 US, the Limited Edition for $79.99 US and the Epic Edition which will cost $149.99 US.  I’ll post up more details about these editions as they are released.

Gears of War 3 is coming September 20th, 2011 exclusive to the Xbox 360.