[Update: The Maps are officially region blocked in SA again. Sucks to be us.] Microsoft have just announced that the Snowblind map pack for Gears of War 2 has gone live on Live. I quickly moved off to my Xbox 360 to go and see if they are available in South Africa, even for a short while, so that anyone …

Microsoft’s global product manager Guy Welch has announced that Gears of War 2 has in fact managed to sell a massive 4 million units over the last 2 months, doubling the sales pace of the original. While I am very happy for them, I cannot help but feel a little upset by the fact that there are so many small …

Some news has made it’s way to us via a tip from one of our readers (Thanks Loki) that the Gears of War 2 Flashback map pack has now become available for download over Xbox Live Marketplace. While some of you may be ecstatic that you will finally be able to download the maps ( with the help of a …

Just a short while ago, Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games wrote a post on the official Gears of War 2 forums wishing everyone a happy new year but more importantly announced that the long awaited patch for Gears of War 2 is finally on it’s way. The post is quite long and details quite a lot of issues …

By now, most of you are all aware that Epic has just released a new map pack for Gears of War 2 called the “Combustible Map Pack”. In a move that has gotten a whole bunch of Gears of War fans pretty riled up, Epic decided to release them a mere month or so after the release of the title …

It’s a public holiday day today which means we can blow work off and get down to some hard core gaming. To celebrate this fact Epic has released a brand new ste of maps for Gears of War 2.. Only two problems really. 1. I highly doubt Epic knows that it is a public holiday in SA today  2. This …

A pretty humorous easter egg in Gears of War 2 has recently been discovered that is sure to bring out a few giggles. This easter egg gives everyone a cowboy hat like Dizzy’s and the results are quite strange to say the least. Epic have said that they chucked it in for fun during a time of pressure so don’t …

Nick published an article last week about how Resistance 2 only debuted at number 10 on the UK charts, well everyone was pretty convinced that the only reason it was number 10 was because it had only been out for a single day when the charts were compiled. Fast forward a week and we see something slightly disturbing… Resistance 2 …