Mon, Oct 20, 2008 | 19:15 BST

Gears of War 2 leaked

Gears of War 2 has started popping up on torrent sites as a 6.7Gb download.

In a word, “Whoops.” Obviously, you need a chipped box to play it, but this is unlikely to go down well with Microsoft and all its vengeful legal ninjas. Like, at all.

The game’s retail release is November 7.

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12 comments

Gekidami
20/10/08, 7:19 pm

I dont know… I’ve got people buddied on LIVE that have had FarCry 2 for some time now and nothings happened to them, then again, FC2 isnt a Microsoft game…

mortiferus
20/10/08, 7:19 pm

How lame… Why do these pirate chumps always get the cool stuff first?!

morriss
20/10/08, 7:21 pm

I’d like to be an all vengeful ninja.

Herlock
20/10/08, 7:35 pm

Like Far cry2, Fallout 3 and Fable 2 and more…
Blame PC!

David
20/10/08, 7:37 pm

Wankers the lot of them.

Smartypants
20/10/08, 8:00 pm

I can confirm it’s region-free! Fuck YEAH piracy!

(I’m still going to buy it on launchday, in case anyone was wondering)

Quiiick
20/10/08, 9:07 pm

Are game-news outlets obliged to inform that yet another game has been made available to be pirated? I dunno …

Smartypants
20/10/08, 9:32 pm

No but it’s nice of them to do so

rainer
20/10/08, 9:42 pm

Yeah’s that is a weird new trend, its no secret the Xbox 360 could be chipped but its major news on all the blogs if a big game leaked even though it happens all the time.

Probably something to do with those trying to paint the consoles as vulnerable to mass piracy like the PC only that’s a load of horse manure. A browse of some of those trackers only shows a few hundred downloading, if it were a PC release it would be in the thousands to tens of thousands.

It’s not like Microsoft is too worried about it anyway the unwashed masses are too stupid/afraid to mod the 360 so only the hardcore pirates on the 360 do it.

The RROD actually had a silver lining to it making folks wary of tampering with the console, of course ignoring the DVD as a vector of attack was monumentally stupid on MS’s part. Probably not until Xbox 360 2.0 ships will they try to close that hole.

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airdom
20/10/08, 9:48 pm

heh, even if i had a modded xbox, I wouldnt download this. im gonna buy it when it comes out like everyone else!

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cachucha
21/10/08, 12:05 am

Thanks 4 the info! gonna download ^^ (jk but people are more aware of that now XD)

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MesserWolf
21/10/08, 7:33 am

It wasn’t exactly a secret , and the news is important because this could impact on retail sales