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Gears of War for Windows Title Update

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Gamers who signed in to Gears of War for Windows after 12:30 PST today likely noticed that a new title update is available for the game. The update addresses the Games for Windows – LIVE update issue (which I posted about some time ago) as well as fixes some various performance issues. So if you were curious – there you go. Have fun!

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Gears of War for Windows

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We’re happy that these friggin’ COG have something better to do than annoy us here in the office.  Now that Gears for Windows is out, they can leave us alone.  Here is our latest video showing just how much of a pain they are to work with…

Also, for those PC gamers who didn’t know about it, we have a monthly Games for Windows newsletter with a bunch of information, and some good deals!
You can get $10 off of Gears for the PC at Best Buy, you can enter to win a Toshiba gaming laptop, AND you get a pretty cool Gears of War screensaver just for signing up.  Not too shabby.

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Gears of War and the Games for Windows — LIVE Update

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Today is a great day for Windows gamers! Gears of War finally ships on Windows today, with full support for Games for Windows — LIVE and, with Windows Vista, DirectX 10! The game retails for an MSRP of $49.99, and for that you get five new campaign chapters, a new “King of the Hill” multiplayer mode, three new multiplayer maps, a robust game editor, and incredible high-res graphics that take even the Xbox 360 visuals to the next generation. Plus, the game is packed with all the content previously released on the Xbox 360 – seven multiplayer maps and the “Annex” game mode.
You’re probably anxious to play, but wanted to let you know of a small problem (fortunately, with an easy fix). When you first play Gears of War for Windows, an automatic update to Games for Windows — LIVE will be downloaded. But after the update is downloaded, you’re [...]

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Gears of War for Windows Now Available

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Happy Tuesday!
Gears of War is now available at fine retailer near you or on the interwebs. I have to say that I was extremely impessed by how awesome the game looked and played at the internal event that Nelson posted about on Friday. Though he did forget to mention me brutalizing Chris with the chainsaw. Which is probably good, because then we would have to talk about Chris tooling me in Crysis…
From the media alert for Gears:

In addition to retaining all of the content from its Xbox 360 counterpart and all previously released downloadable content (seven multiplayer maps and the Annex game mode), “Gears of War” for Windows will feature exciting original content, all-new Achievements to unlock and ultra-high resolution visuals, including support for DirectX 10. Five new campaign chapters expand upon the riveting story (including an epic battle with the fearsome Brumak), and the action-packed multiplayer offering is bolstered with three exclusive multiplayer maps, [...]

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As promised, here are the results of our Gears of War Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest.
I was very happy you guys did such a bang-up job.  These are amazing!
If your pumpkin is featured here (even m3mnoch who’s GoW Pumpkin entry was from last year) please send me an email to GSBlog@Microsoft.com.

Fulci Zombie
Fulci Zombie

NIN 013
NIN 013

IX Twig XI
m3mnoch

CyrixTviruS
saltymongoose

Neo Vexx
 

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Gears of War for Windows ships on Tuesday November 6th in the US, but just because it arrives after Halloween doesn’t mean you can’t get into the mood now!
You may have seen the Pumpkin Templates on Xbox.com, but those aren’t the only choices for you to use when carving your pumpkin this Halloween.

You can turn just about any photo into a Pumpkin stencil by making it black and white, and adjusting the contrast/brightness to highlight the lights and darks.  There are some pretty good tutorials over at Photoshop Tips, and Home Logic Halloween.
In the spirit of Halloween, we have provided a few images (top) to make stencils out of (we gave you a head start on the bottom) in hopes that we can see some cool Gears of War themed pumpkins.

We have a few incentives to give out to folks who do a great job on the Gears of War Pumpkin [...]

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