Sat, Sep 10, 2011 | 18:05 BST
Report – Online retailer in Norway breaks Gears of War 3 street date
It looks as though Gears of War 3 was sent out to customers a few days early in Norway.
According to a report from Norwegian site PressFire, customers who purchased the game online through store Elkjop.no have reported, and sent in pictures as proof, that they received the game before its street date of September 20.
Microsoft issued a statement on the matter saying the broken street date was something it would “immediately” follow-up on.
“Gears of War 3 shall not, under any circumstances be sold before the launch date on September 20 and violations of this is something we look very seriously,” said Microsoft Norway.
The online store said it was “keen to keep these deadlines,” and was unsure how it happened.
“We informed Microsoft yesterday,” read a statement. “Now we [are] examining what has happened, so it does not happen again.”
You can read more on this via the PressFire link, which sent us the tip.
If any of our readers can speak Norwegian, it would be most helpful to us if they could make sure Google translated the original article for us properly. Thanks in advance.
Meanwhile, we’ll send Epic a mail.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Norway, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Epic Games, gears 3, gears of war, Gears of War 3
9 comments
#1
Pellesam
10/09/11, 6:21 pm
I am norwegian and the translation was pretty good. Unfortunately I didn’t pre-ordered from elkjop.no
#2
The_Deleted
10/09/11, 6:29 pm
Epic Failed?
#3
Quasar
10/09/11, 6:33 pm
the game yeah
#4
Stephany Nunneley
10/09/11, 6:37 pm
@1 Thanks for looking for me.
#5
Razor
10/09/11, 7:51 pm
This is Norway’s little treat for having to put up with all that cold weather
#6
minxamo
10/09/11, 7:55 pm
I saw it up on bitgamer the other day, this must be why.
#7
ItsFade
10/09/11, 11:46 pm
Stores in Norway always seem to leak the big xbox titles pre-launch. See Halo 3 and Halo Reach as well. It seems I pre-order from the wrong places here because it never happens to me.
#8
vicheous
11/09/11, 10:43 am
I live in Norway and get games before street date almost all the time for the PS3! My store told me it’s because i’m such a good customer
Norway FTW
#9
UKTomm
11/09/11, 11:15 am
‘The online store said it was “keen to keep these deadlines,” and was unsure how it happened.’
Bet you £20 it was intentional.