Fri, Apr 09, 2010 | 12:23 BST

360 dashboard shows Gears of War 3 for April 2011 release [Update]

Gears 3 DB

Update: Looks like its been pulled. We just checked if it was still there, but it ain’t no more.

Original: Gears of War 3 is apparently official: a window on the 360 Dashboard shows it as such.

The outing has also apparently confirmed the game for an April 2011 release, as previously reported, with the title set to “conclude” the story that started four years ago.

This comes as lead designer of the series Cliff Bleszinski is set to announce a new Epic title on US TV; this has already been heavily tipped to be Gears 3.

It was due to be announced by now – Bleszinski was set to appear on Jimmy Fallon’s late night TV show in the US last night – but is now on hold until Monday.

Thanks, AGB.

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24 comments

#1

Bulk Slash
09/04/10, 11:49 am

I’m surprised it’s not going to get another Christmas release, presumably they’re going to use the extra time to add more features.

#2

Droid
09/04/10, 11:49 am

Wow, talk about early advertising. The world could have ended before that date.

#3

xInFeRnO
09/04/10, 11:52 am

@2 Lmao. This must have been a slip-up for the announcement CliffyB was going to make? If it was, MS sure f**ked up that one.

#4

mojo
09/04/10, 11:57 am

haha. someone forgot about the dashboard update.
reveal succesfully spoiled.

#5

ybfelix
09/04/10, 11:58 am

Well, it’s really NBC’s fault, now their surprise is spoiled

#6

Patrick Garratt
09/04/10, 12:00 pm

“Whoops.”

#7

daytripper
09/04/10, 12:02 pm

internet meltdown?

#8

Soong
09/04/10, 12:08 pm

“with the title set to “conclude” the story that started four years ago.”

Gears of War had a story? Really?

#9

V_Ben
09/04/10, 12:10 pm

Cliffy B Gonna Stab Somebody :-D

#10

Blerk
09/04/10, 12:13 pm

Ha ha! Foot, meet bullet! :-D

It’s nice to know that you can always rely on each division at Microsoft not having a bloody clue what’s going on around it.

Anyway, Gears 3. Hurrah! Let’s see some media.

#12

AHA-Lambda
09/04/10, 12:25 pm

HAH YES!!!

And april makes sense anyway with halo reach, natal and fable 3. Killzone 3 vs gears 3 in april then? ;)

#13

David Sarkisjan
09/04/10, 12:31 pm

It seems Epic is uneveiling two titles at once. Gears of War 3 published by Microsoft, and a new-IP, presumably FPS shooter “Bulletstorm” developed by People Can Fly, rumoured to be published by EA.

#14

Gekidami
09/04/10, 12:34 pm

The Locust queen is Marcus’ mother. There, i’m calling it.

#15

AHA-Lambda
09/04/10, 12:42 pm

@14 – I agree lol :)

#16

Blerk
09/04/10, 12:43 pm

And Dom’s his brother. Which makes the fact that they’ve been secretly bumming each other for the last two games all the more wrong.

#17

mington
09/04/10, 12:50 pm

so like, what was the two indistinguishable races of locust kill each other all about?

i wish the first one had more story
and i wish the second one had less

#18

theevilaires
09/04/10, 1:23 pm

Hope its even better than the last one and they fix the online so it doesn’t take 2 hours to play a game.

#19

Bringit
09/04/10, 1:27 pm

Do you have a US Xbox then Johnny?

#20

Blerk
09/04/10, 1:31 pm

You can easily have a US account on a UK Xbox. I got one by accident because Microsoft are retards.

#21

mington
09/04/10, 1:33 pm

@19 just need a US silver account innit

start by creating a fake hotmail account saying you live in america, then create an xbox profile with it

although here isn’t much difference between the US and UK nower days, they used to get demos and trailers earlier

#22

Johnny Cullen
09/04/10, 1:46 pm

@19 My Xbox is a UK one. You can get a US Live account if you know where to look and how to get it done.

#23

mington
09/04/10, 1:52 pm

up, down, left, right, hold A, press start

#24

Mike
09/04/10, 4:04 pm

haha!
Oops!

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