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Now we can all buy new costumes for our avatars and feed Microsoft’s hunger for micro-transactions.
The other features include Avatar Awards which can be unlocked in certain games. A list of titles have not been provided but it will likely only be for newer games. Netflix functionality, queue movies from your Xbox 360 instead of [...]

I originally got the idea for this comic earlier this week but today the news about Rashard Lewis broke so I just had to put him in here.

So the new Gears of War 2 map pack came out yesterday and after playing a few matches I have to say I’m satisfied with the results. The Dark Corners map pack is priced at 1200 MS points and the All Fronts pack which includes Dark Corners and all of the past map packs is [...]

The smoke grenade knockdown has been converted to a cringe (stunned while remaining standing) now for about 3 weeks or more and I wanted to express how I feel about it. I know there are people on both sides of the fence and both have legitimate arguments. While some previously thought the smoke grenade was [...]

Word is out that Gears of War 2 will be receiving yet another set of down-loadable content. This time it comes in the form of the “Dark Corners” map pack which includes 7 new maps and an extra campaign mission. So far Epic has already released 3 map packs for Gears of War 2 and [...]

In this mornings announcement of the new Experience Ranking System and Snowblind map pack, Epic also including information about the new multiplayer auto-balancing system which will also be part of the new title update. The logic is simple, for every player that leaves or disconnects from a game one or more AI controlled players will [...]

Just announced earlier today, Gears of War 2 will be receiving yet another downloadable map pack. The “Snowblind” map pack will include 3 new maps and a remake of Fuel Depot from the original Gears of War. This will already be the third map pack released for Gears of War 2. No price has been [...]

The Gears of War update that we’ve all been waiting for is finally out but I’ve been too stupid to try it yet. After reading the description of the bug fixes and balancing changes on the official forum, I have to say I’m quite pleased. It seems to me like the guys at Epic really [...]

I got a chance to sit down and play with the Gears of War 2 Combustible Map Pack that was released earlier this week. Overall I think they’re a nice edition to the maps that shipped with the game. Again Epic trying to make maps where the environment plays a factor. On Flood the emulsion [...]