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Brown Badasses Are Back: Gears Of War 3 Campaign Screens

11:40PM August 16, 2011 | Joel Johnson

I recently got myself in a bit of hot water by mentioning I wasn’t all that excited for Gears of War 3. I didn’t mean it as an insult. It’s just that there are a million interesting new games coming out this year that hold the promise of new experiences, while Gears is going to be more, well, Gears. More »


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Cliffy B’s First Game Was A Sequel

10:30AM July 16, 2011 | Owen Good

“Just stumbled upon my first real game I made…on disk,” writes Epic Games’ design director and the creator of the Gears of War series. Weighing in at a whopping 1.44 megabytes is The Palace of Deceit II: The Dragon’s Plight. We’re awaiting a gameplay trailer, Cliff.


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Notch Will Get That For You, Cliffy B

6:00AM June 12, 2011 | Owen Good

Epic Games and Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski have made a ton of money. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson carries around a little bit of scratch himself. We’re pretty sure both had no trouble making their escapes from Los Angeles after E3.


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Cliffy B Implies No Master Chief/Gears Crossover Because Microsoft Is ‘Kind Of Squeamish’

11:30AM April 30, 2011 | Owen Good

Epic Games characters have appeared into other games before – Lost Planet 2, for example. The studio’s willing to consider any reasonable tie-in with its own games, too, so you’re not the first to wonder how awesome it’d be to have a Master Chief skin in Gears of War. More »


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The Real Cliffy B Meets The Real Fake Cliffy B

11:30AM March 5, 2011 | Owen Good

At left is the bona fide Cliff Bleszinski, design director for Epic Games. At right is Twitter’s Fakecliffy_b – the spoof account run by Matthew Rex Downham, himself a designer of iOS applications and games. Real Cliffy B and Fakecliffy_b met, at last, at GDC 2011. More »


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‘I Made A Video Game Where You Can Blow Out A Man’s Asshole’

5:00AM January 8, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Hear Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski utter the words that could one day appear on his tombstone in the latest instalment of Bulletstorm’s Bulletpoints video series. Not safe for work, unless you work at a proctologist office. More »


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Cliffy B: Heavy Rain Missed Its Chance With The Ladies

12:30PM November 5, 2010 | Owen Good

Joking that women “love two things in life, queso dip and true crime”, Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski told a podcast that he felt Heavy Rain missed out on bigger sales by not marketing itself more to the fairer sex. More »


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Shirtless Old Spice Man Explains Joys Of Shirtless Gears Of War Play

11:00AM July 14, 2010 | Michael McWhertor

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What questions burn within the big brain of Gears of War designer Cliff “Clifford” Bleszinski? “Does the huge dude in those Old Spice commercials do everything with his shirt off?” is one. The deodorised one responds, praising shirtless Locust chainsawing. More »


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Gears 3 Doubles Up On Co-Op Campaign Mode Multiplayer

1:20AM April 14, 2010 | Mike Fahey

Two-player campaign mode co-op? Please, that’s so Gears 2. According to an update from designer Cliff Bleszinski, the recently revealed Gears of War 3 will feature twice the multiplayer co-op campaign mode of its predecessors. More »


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Bleszinski: Borderlands Is Diablo For A New Generation

11:00AM November 8, 2009 | Owen Good

Continuing today’s theme of “Devs Commenting on Other Devs,” here, for a change, is Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski weighing in with something polite about Borderlands. More »