The “Break it Down” Blog

3D Realms + EPIC = DNF Was a Guerilla Marketing Scheme (The Chair Story)

Laurence Hartje just sent me a link over to Charlie Wiederhold’s blog where he reiterates the “Chair Story”. We were talking about 3D Realms’s announced death and thought things started to sound fishy when Laurence sent this along. At first glance “The Chair Story” sounded stupid, but it was from a 3D Realms insider from back [...]

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Gears of War 2 Lancer Pre-Order Available at Amazon

Ever get the feeling that people weren’t taking you serious as a badass? Perhaps an older brother is constantly picking on you, even though you’re both well into your thirty’s? Thankfully a product is now available that will show everyone just how macho you really are. Exclusively though Amazon.com, Epic Games and Microsoft are proud to [...]

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Microsoft Buyout of Epic?

Ruh-roh! Maybe the booth orientation at GDC is more about Microsoft expecting to buyout Epic and not a Gears of War 2 announcement? Either way, I’m excited to see Microsoft buy Epic, destroy it forcing them to make 10 Gears of War titles (like Halo) then split it off again in 8 years after everyone fucking [...]

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Gears of War 2 Coming Soon?

Whilst trolling the interwebs for new games coming out of the 2008 Game Developers Conference, I happened to notice Epic and Microsoft getting cozy together on the floorspace. And after doing some looking, it looks like Amazon has a product page for “Gears of War 2″… I wonder if they know something? If It’s true i [...]

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Gears of War PC Problems

IGN’s Gears of War for the PC review reveal a few interesting tid-bits… namely fuck you Microsoft *cough*, sorry I mean, namely that Microsoft has gotten EPIC to require an Windows Live Gold account ($50/year) for full multiplayer functionality, including online co-op play. So if you just sank $60 on this game and want to [...]

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