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Karen Traviss announced as Gears of War 3 writer

News by Johnny Cullen Contributor

Published on April 13, 2010

It's been announced that novelist Karen Traviss has been chosen as the main writer on Gears of War 3.

Traviss is a sci-fi writer who has worked on Star Wars books, but has also worked on several of the spin-off novels from the Gears universe.

The game's lead designer Cliff Bleszinski made the announcement in an interview with Meristation.

"She has a very, very good way of getting inside these characters heads from a novelist's kind of standpoint. She really understands who they are, and she's going to really be doing a good job of breathing life into these characters as well as the new ones."

Gears of War 3 was announced earlier this morning on US TV. It'll release on April 8, 2011 in the UK, with a US release on April 5, 2011.

The first trailer for it was also released today, which you can get here.