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Gears of War Global Xbox Live Tourney


Show the rest of the world exactly how good you have become. Sign up between March 29th and April 29th to compete on Xbox LIVE® against some of the best Gears of War® gamers in the world. You will participate in 3 vs. 3 or 4 vs. 4 ranked matches for four intense weeks of leaderboard play.

Prizes

Grand Prize
Rank as one of the top 11 individual finalists on the global leaderboard and you'll receive a trip for you and a guest to Prague.* There, you will compete against the best of the best in the Gears of War Tournament Grand Finals.

Be one of the top four finalists from your country and receive an invitation to compete in your nation's 2007 World Cyber Games National Championship.**

Secondary Prizes
Secondary prizes include an Xbox 360™ Package (Xbox 360 Pro console, "Viva Piñata™" "Project Gotham Racing® 3," "Xbox LIVE Arcade Unplugged Volume 1," "Kameo" and a 12 month Xbox LIVE subscription), as well as "Gears of War" bonuses like shirts, faceplates, etc.

Details
  • Register before April 29th 2007
  • Official Play will be happening
    from April 9th - May 6th
  • Winners to be announced in May
  • Tournament Grand Finals will take
    place in Prague, Czech Republic in July
  • Gears of War Global Xbox LIVE Tournament
    is brought to you by the World Cyber Games
 
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Upcoming Gears update fixes glitches & adds gametype

Posted Mar 30th 2007 5:05PM by David Dreger
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, Multiplayer, Gears of War

DAKing240 let us know about pretty big news for you gearheads out there: Mark Rein dropped into the Gears of War forums to leave a couple tidbits for fans. The next update for the game is currently in certification and he'll have more news for us next week. What he said this week, though, was very promising. For starters, there will be a bunch of glitches fixed, 720p support for VGA users running 1280X1024 and most importantly, a new gametype. Called Annex, Mark says that he's gotten great feedback so far on the new mode, and can't wait for us to get our hands on it. So, you think this new gametype will coincide with the Global Tournament?
 
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Insomniac Games bod Brian Hastings has responded to critics who have complained that the company's PlayStation 3 launch title, Resistance: Fall of Man, isn't as good-looking as the Xbox 360's Gears of War. In a tirade titled "10 Reasons Why PS3 Will Win This Console Generation", Hastings was keen to explain why Gears trumped Resistance in the visuals department.

"Sometimes people ask us, 'If Resistance takes 14 gigabytes, why doesn't it look better than Gears?'" began Hastings. "Well, for one, Resistance didn't support texture streaming, so we had to make choices about where we spent our high-res textures. Resistance also had 30 single-player chapters, six multiplayer maps, uncompressed audio streaming, and high-definition mpegs. That all added up to a lot of space on the disc.

"Starting with Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction we are supporting texture streaming, which will make the worlds look even better, and will also consume even more space on disc. Gears of War is a beautiful game and shows off the highest resolution textures of anything yet released, partly because of the Unreal Engine's ability to stream textures," he continued. "This means that you can have much higher resolution textures than you could normally fit in your 512 MB of RAM. It also means that you’re going to chew up more disc space for each level.

"With streamed textures, streamed geometry and streamed audio, even with compression, you can quickly approach 1GB of data per level. That inherently limits you to a maximum of about 7 levels, and that’s without multiplayer levels or mpeg cut-scenes. There’s no question that you can always cut more levels, compress the audio more, compress the textures more, down-res the mpeg movies, and eventually get any game to fit on a DVD. But you paid for a high-def experience, right?"

So there you go - why Gears is prettier than Resistance, straight from the horse's mouth. What do you lot think?
 
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