No love hoarded for horde mode

Gears of War 3 ranks in as one of this year’s personal highlights, alongside Deus Ex and Bulletstorm. There are a few plot holes, and in hindsight I don’t think the final boss would have been as impressive without the fancy lighting effects, but it finishes the trilogy off nicely. Would I have liked Gears …

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Gears gives way to FIFA

Predictably, FIFA 12 has pushed Gears of War 3 off the top of the UK chart this week. It has become the third biggest UK launch ever, with launch sales up 18% over FIFA 11. You may recall that we were mildly interested in seeing how well the PlayStation 2 version performed, considering that you …

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Gears of War 3

It pains us to say it, but there are developers out there who simply take on projects that are destined to be dire to save having to turf their staff out onto the streets. A fine example are studios signed up to make movie tie-ins on incredibly short deadlines, or asked to make a budget …

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Epic curb-stomps Codemasters

There’s no prize for guessing what game is at the top of the UK chart this week. You may not have guessed though that Gears of War 3 ranks as the biggest launch of this year so far, almost beating the launch week figures for Gears 1 and 2 combined. Codemasters’ F1 2011 makes a …

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Jeers of War 3

We’ve brought this week’s new release round up forward a couple of days as this week’s biggest release – Gears of War 3 – is being released today. A Tuesday, of all days. Reviews hit the ‘net late last week. The Official US Xbox magazine gave it a perfect score of 10/10 while the Official …

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E3: Microsoft didn’t give us a wave

And so the official name for Natal is now Wave. Actually, that’s a lie – it’s now Kinect, a word that Microsoft Word’s spellchecker really doesn’t like. So, the rumours of it being renamed as Wave turned out to be false. That said, it might have gone under the moniker of Wave behind the scenes …

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