Gearheads of War

Hey Guys,

Some new info I found on the Modern Warfare 24/7 site (They get credit for putting it all together) MDK even managed to get into the questions on Twitter with 402, props to him.
Anyways, a few new tidbits and clears some things up about the game.
Less than a 45 days to go I believe?

Cheers!

Hellllloooooooo,

I found this site last week, I'm sure many of you have seen it and checked out the videos, (they're different from those on IGN and such, much much much better IMO) but may be some haven't seen them!! :)

Anyways, have a look, lemme know if anyone's found any other sites, i'm crawling the internet for info....also a little excited for November.

Also note, that there is information about weapons and some of the multiplayer, all of which is publicly known but compiled nicely, if you DO NOT want to know about anything multiplayer, don't hit the link. Just a warning so I don't ruin it for anyone.

Modern Warfare 24/7

Anyways, what'd you think?

Not sure if anyone's actually read this yet, but I had a good laugh at it.
Someone who was upset about not being flown to Valve to see the new L4D2 Campaign and a modder is flying Gabe and Eric the Project Manager to Australia to preview it there at his home.
Valve employees donated money, haha. Imagine an April's Fools in their office.

"Fly Gabe Newell" Raises $3000

That started about a week ago, apparently they're confirmed it with Valve and everyone involved, they're actually going. I'm impressed with the Valve heads for actually following through and planning on going, don't think many other studio's give their fans the time of day like Valve do.

Gabe's going Airborne.

Anyways, may be someone else has more info on this, I'm just reading it on random sites. I'm curious if anyone has more details :)

Hey All,

I know not everyone is interested in ODST, but definately a very well done trailer for live action. Hopefully this is the very lowest bar set for video game movies that are in the pipeline.

WTF Happened with the matchmaking in Gears 2.

I love the game, the campaigns great and online has been pretty good if you manage to get into a game but honestly, how did they f*** up the match making so that it takes 10 minutes to find a match. Seriously was there no testing done?

OMG This needs to be fixed because its f***ing terrible. End of rant.

Hello All,
As evidenced I don't post much, but I thought this was just grand, I'm actually on my third run through and still laughing. Listen to his buddies motivation its great.

Anyways, hopefully this brightens up someones day, definately did for me. Enjoy! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm2LY1y0F0s

Post some links in the replies, I'm in a laughing mood for some reason. :)

Whether or not you own a PS3, there's a pretty good chance you caught wind of the Metal Gear Solid 4 release last week. There's also a pretty good chance that you are at least familiar with the series. Perhaps you even know that Solid Snake, protagonist of the series, has a habit of hiding in barrels and boxes. There's one thing we know for sure though, and that is that Battlefield: Bad Company developer DICE definitely knows about the series. In a new video the soldiers of Bad Company poke fun at the longstanding Metal Gear convention. In short, it's pretty damned funny. Find the video after the break.
(Xbox360fanboy)

STORY:
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/06/17/bad-company-makes-fun-of-solid-snake/
VIDEO:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35147.html

I saw this and just had to share it with everyone. Just hilarious in my books.

There is also some new photos/scans in very high resolution on X3F. Here is a link to a story about the new Flamethrower [Not to the scans, those aren't linked, you'll have to look at X3F to find those.]

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/05/27/gears-2-flamethrower-other-weapons-spotted-in-scans/

While browsing the Web today I found some interviews from 'The Escapist'

There is a couple cool interviews regarding Gears 2 with Cliff, Rod the producer, Tim Sweeney CEO and President Mike Capps. They sit in on a meeting about Gears 2 plus video of the studio and some pictures aswell.

I wish we had one of those pantries at work, look at all the Snacks!!! Hopefully this hasn't already been posted, I did not see it. Anyways enjoy, they are all good reads if you have the time.

PS. Life-size CARMINE statue is awesome!

Tim Sweeney and Mike Capps:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_149/4896-Epic-s-Rainmakers

LINK:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/14/rumor-360-dashboard-update-to-support-game-installs-motion-se/

Some of the features include.

• Introduce a group chat (4) for Private Chat and conferences through Video Chat.
  
• Option to remove payment information from gamertag.
  
• Option to disable invites from non-friends or all players.
  
• Option to donate Microsoft Points to anybody with a Windows Live ID.
  

"We have been fighting Sony's promises from the day we entered the market. Three years ago at E3 they showed what PS3 games would supposedly look like with the Killzone 2 video, that we are now learning will ship four years later. That means that we will have shipped Gears of War and Gears of War 2 before they can even get Killzone out the door."

"Think back to GDC 2007 when Sony promised to leap ahead in online with the Sony Home unveil. Here we are two years later and multiple delays for a product that has appears to have little to no buzz. Where are the achievements? The friends list integration across all games? Where is the long-promised video store?"

"Where are all the other products using and networking with their Cell chip? How come Blu-ray did not result in better games? What happened with Sixaxis and rumble? Where is the complete 1080p game library we were promised? If Blu-ray, as they said, would be such a catalyst to PS3 console sales, then why have PS3 sales over the past couple months not seen any lift since the format victory?"