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Here’s A Neat New Trick.

Here’s a neat new trick. You can run the Unreal Engine 3 real-time tech demo Epic Citadel in a web browser. Get a “Nightly” version of Firefox. Then go here. This HTML5 FAQ explains more. How high can you get the framerate?


Gears Of War: Judgment Gets New Maps And Multiplayer Mode Next Week

New competitive environments will be coming to Epic Games’ latest Gears game when the Call to Arms map pack drops on April 2. It will include three new areas — Terminal, Blood Drive and Boneyard — and a new multiplayer mode called Master at Arms.


Here’s Gears Of War’s Top Designer Going Bald For A Good Cause

I may be bald, but Cliff Bleszinski is both unemployed and bald. But I wouldn’t worry about the former lead designer of the Gears of War series. He’s been doing alright for himself since leaving Epic Games, and this weekend he pulled in enough dough — $15,000, the highest contributor in this fundraiser — to make good on a promise to shave his head.


‘Warzone’ Multiplayer Is On Gears Of War: Judgment Disc

Earlier this week Gears fans figured out how to trigger Warzone — it has to be done from a private team deathmatch, while hitting the A and B buttons simultaneously in the match’s parameters menu.


This Is Running On A PlayStation 4 In Real Time, According To Epic

You may have seen this graphics demo before. It shows off the Unreal Engine 4, the next-gen graphics tech from the company behind Gears of War, Infinity Blade and the graphics engine that runs a lot of modern PC and console games. But if you saw it before, you saw it running on a PC. Now you can see it running on Sony’s next console.


Impressive Unreal Engine 4 Graphics Demo ‘Infiltrator’ Leaks Early

This is a tech demo called Infiltrator that the people at Epic Games have been showing to reporters and developers all week at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. Is it a game? Or just a way to show off what the Unreal Engine can do for next-gen video game graphics? I’m not sure.


Six Critics Consider Gears Of War: Judgment Fresh, Frantic And Fun

Gears of War has been around for a while now — seven years, with Judgment being the fourth game in the series — and it seems the franchise is not ready to slow down just yet. Most reviewers agree that the gameplay is exhilarating, the story is tight, and the war-torn world is prettier than ever.


Gears Of War: Judgment: The Kotaku Review

Our Gears of War: Judgment review has been updated with a multiplayer segment as well as an overall verdict on the game (finally). To sum: you might have a better time picking up Gears of War 3 instead.


Gamer Comedian Finds Ways To Make Gears Of War: Judgment Funny

We’ve already seen Kumail Nanjiani making jokes about video games, that’s what a comedian who loves his hobby (and lots and lots of video games) does.


The Rise And Fall Of SuperDaE, A Most Unusual Aussie Game Hacker

The first thing that ever puzzled me about the man I used to know as SuperDaE was that he didn’t sound Australian.


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