The Gears 2 map pack is just around the corner and unfortunately it is highly unlikely that we are going to be able to download it without faking a VPN. As such I wouldn’t recommend even bothering as most of your friends won’t have the pack and it just feels wrong spending money on something that isn’t easily available to …

[Update] If you are here because you can’t find the map packs on the PSN click here PS3 Map Pack Delayed For Some People Before anyone says anything, yes, the upcoming Call of Duty: World at War map pack has actually, after what must have been hours of brainstorming, been named “Map Pack 1”. The new map pack from Treyarch …

Call  of Duty : World at War will get its very first map pack come March. Four new maps – Three standard multiplayer and one for the game’s ridiculously fun cooperative Nazi Zombie mode. Available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 the map pack will add add “Nightfire,” “Station,” “Knee Deep” and “Verrückt (Zombie Asylum).” While there were many World …

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 …

While a lot of us are still hurting from the sting of not receiving the map pack codes in South Africa, a few images have popped up on Flickr that show someone playing Gears of War 2 on a never-before-seen multiplayer map. The new map looks to be some sort of take on the whole sunken-city idea and could be one of many that are already in the works as DLC. Once again, there is no way to tell if us South Africans will even have any access to them, so maybe we shouldn't get our hopes up. Pics after the jump. [Thanks to Poddle for the tip] You check the full gallery by clicking here.

I really hope that I get proven wrong on this one because if I don't, it will be a pretty sad piece of news for us South Africans. As you all know, a few South Africans have been able to get their hands on copies of Gears of War 2 a few days early. I got the chance to speak to someone who has already gotten a copy and has played a sneaky multiplayer session with a few other of the lucky folks who got it early as well. The problem is that none of them could find the "Flashback Map Pack" code in their Gears of War 2 boxes. Say it ain't so. More after the jump. While there is a small chance that the early copies didn't have the codes, I very highly doubt that there is any difference between those copies and the ones that will be available on Friday. If this is true, it may mean that South Africans are going to completely miss out on the recreated maps from the original Gears of War. The truth is that South Africa isn't officially supported for Xbox Live but one would think that because we get the same stock as Europe, we would have the codes packaged in. At this point I am just sincerely hoping that the guys I spoke to were just hopelessly blind and couldn't find the codes that are actually there. Problem is that it isn't really likely. If we are lucky, the maps will become available over Xbox Live to everyone after a short while, even though a lot of South Africans will need to resort to special measures to bypass the region block on all of the Gears of War 2 content.