This ‘making of Gears of War 3’ video was first seen at Comic-Con 2011. If you weren’t there, you can watch it here. Below we mean.
The Darkness II Comic-Con panel has said that there is a live-action feature film version of The Darknesscurrently in development. The film is being produced by Mandeville Films – the studio behind the Academy Award-winning The Fighter. According to Darkness creator Marc Silvestri: “This will not be a watered down version of The Darkness.” [Source]
Well, it wasn’t exactly like they had a ton of time left before the game’s September 6 release to run an open beta, so I suppose it’s no surprise that the open beta will kick off in the first week of August. While an exact day in that week was not given by Insomniac Games at Comic-Con, you will have…
The panel at Comic-Con 2011 discussing Gears of War 3 dropped a few interesting bits of information about the game which was featured alongside a reveal of an ‘American Chopper’ built Gears of War 3 chopper. Obviously.
Activision has already dated one if its three games at Comic-Con (Protoype 2 for April 24, 2012), and now two more of their games have been given release dates. X-Men Destiny arrives first on September 27th of this year, with Spiderman: Edge of Destiny landing on October 4th – also of this year. Those are most likely to be US…
Epic’s continued efforts to ensure we all have our Gears of War 2 wings by the time Gears of War 3 releases sees a 20x XP Event start today. As per Rod Fergusson’s tweet (nine hours ago): SDCC Gears 2 XP Event – 20x XP, Horde enemies with mixed up guns, starts tomorrow 9 AM EST till Monday
Activision has confirmed the releases date of Prototpe 2 as April 24, 2012. That’s still a bit of a wait if you enjoyed the original one, but at least you can enjoy the Comic-Con ‘Homecoming’ trailer so long.
The local media liaison for Xbox in South Africa have been kind enough to send us the full schedule of Xbox related goodies at this years Comic-Con. Sadly, they did not attach first-class (or even economy-class) air tickets to the event. We’re currently accepting donations.
Comic-Con 2011 is on this coming weekend, and Square Enix plans to show off some of their upcoming AAA titles – Dead Island, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Wakfu. Apparently (and somewhat surprisingly) the new Tomb Raider and Hitman will not be at the show.
In related news, Final Fantasy XIII-2 has a release window of January 2012.
Destructoid has put together this rather useful schedule of video game panels at this years Comic-Con in San Diego. For those not interested in comics or cosplay.