Gears of War 3 Now Offically Announced With A Trailer

Cliff Bleszinski appeared on Jimmy Fallon's late night show, earlier today. Although, Cliff wasn't there just for laughs, he brought a pretty big announcement with him.
Gears of War 3 was announced, and along with it, a trailer entitled "Ashes to Ashes" was shown.

Aside from showing the trailer, Cliff also said that the games release date will "probably be around April 8th [2011]."
I'm not a huge Gears of War fan myself, but I can sure appreciate the series none the less. I'm a little disappointed that the trailer doesn't show any actual in-game footage, but if anyone can squeeze every last drop out of the Unreal engine, its the guys at Epic Games.
If you want more info on Gears of War 3 you're probably going to have to wait until E3, where I'm sure Microsoft's press conference will have some more Gears info.

No Epic Games Coming Out This Year

 Many people were expecting a Gear of War 3 announcement last week at GDC, considering the first two games had their debut at previous GDCs, but this year its a bit different.
We actually got some news from from Epic Games VP Mark Rein, that was the complete opposite at GDC this year.

 "We don't have any games coming out in 2010, so from a games standpoint, it's more about our customers' games, right? Already this year we've seen some pretty great games this year-- Mass Effect 2, Bioshock 2, and Arkham Asylum's coming out in 3D, the GOTY version, so that'll be kinda cool."
Even though Epic isn't releasing anything from their studio directly this year, you can be sure that they are hard at work on Gears of War 3, and of course their Unreal Engine.
Personally I thought that Gears of War 2 was pretty lacking in overall gameplay, and so I think its for the better that Epic isn't going to rush out Gears 3 this year. Then again, I'm sure Microsoft wants to give Halo: Reach as big of a spotlight as possible this year, and so we might see many other major releases getting pushed back a bit this year.

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