After much speculation, Epic Games finally came forth and revealed their latest title; Gears of War 3. Now, we don’t have much information about the game other than that it will be out in April of next year and that there will be underwater combat and mechs. However, what we do have for you is the above trailer that was shown off during the game’s unveiling on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

The quality isn’t the greatest but it will do until we find a better quality version.

When Nintendo first announced the brand new 3DS everyone rolled their eyes at the thought of walking around with those ridiculous 3D glasses on. However, after they announced that you won’t be needing those 3D glasses, people started to pay more attention. And, ever since, people have been wondering how exactly Nintendo is going to pull it off, but Hitachi has a solution for them.

What you see above is a diagram showing how their 3.1″ IPS LCD display works. Apparantly, there are slits in the actual LCD that make the image appear 3D without requiring you to use the glasses. Other specs of the screen include a resoltuion of 480 x 854 and a contrast ratio of 1,000:1.

There’s no telling if this screen will actually appear in the 3DS but considering Nintendo has worked with Hitachi in the past, we’d say there’s a pretty good chance.

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When it comes to DLC, PS3 owners have been getting shafted as of late. First, with GTA 4 and more recently with Modern Warfare 2. Well, luckily PS3 owners only have to wait a bit longer for the GTA 4 DLC as Episodes from Liberty City will be hitting North American shelves on tomorrow and European ones on Friday.

For those who don’t know, this is the pack that includes both The Ballad of Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned.

Now, where is GTA 5?

If you were hoping to continue rocking out to Green Day with DLC, you’re going to be disappointed. It was just announced that there will be no additional DLC whatsoever for Green Day: Rock Band.

Harmonix explains why there won’t be any Green Day DLC but there was for The Beatles:

“One of the reasons we could do open-ended DLC for The Beatles is that it’s all tiny clips, and we could just reconfigure them for different songs as needed — and dreamscape backgrounds similarly had that.

With this, we’re really creating sculpted experiences for every single song; there’s an animation that plays all the way through, pretty much. That’s something that’s not really practical to do open-ended. So we decided we were going to make DLC just about finishing 21st Century Breakdown, using the DLC that was already out.

That created a great three-album game, and also let us give each of those [six DLC tracks] unique assets, more than we could easily pack into a DLC pack. Those songs have their own video-wall assets, their own [motion capture].”

Bummer.

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I’m sure most of you are probably rolling your eyes at the title but I thought this was funny so I had to tell you — The cover art for Mean Girls was just released and if you’ve seen the movie you’ll know that its star, Lindsay Lohan, was missing.

Now, there’s no telling exactly why Miss Lohan didn’t make the cut, but we’re just going to assume it’s her poor public figure.

Again, I just think it’s funny.

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It seems that Infinity Ward is on on a slow decline as it was just announced that 2 additional longtime employees have departed the studio. First up is Jon Shiring, a programmer over at Infinity Ward who has been with them for almost 6 years. Additionally, Mackey McCandlish, a designer who has been with Infinity Ward for 8 years has left.

There’s no telling why they left but I’d say it has something to do with Activision being, well, Activision. I wonder if they will join Respawn Entertainment? Let’s hope so.

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Did you know that there was a Halo MMO in the works? Yeah, the guys over at Ensemble Studios who were responsible for Halo Wars were actually working on an MMO codenamed Titan. Well, as you can probably tell the game never got out of development and information has just surfaced that tells us why.

According to Ensemble’s Dusty Monk:

“[Microsoft] were looking really hard at the Nintendo Wii and they were really excited by the numbers that the Wii was turning. So part of this changing of the guard at Microsoft came along with the changing of the attitude to this very expensive, very long and very protacted $90 million USD project we were working on. To cut a long story short, Titan was closed down.”

So what say you? Would you have played a Halo MMO?

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is one of the most played online shooters, and DLC has always been a good seller for the Call of Duty franchise. With “Stimulus Package” for Modern Warfare 2, the DLC brings 5 new maps, including two popular maps from the original Modern Warfare. For $15, it’s quite an expensive map pack, but is it worth the money? Read on to find out.

First of all, $15 is a lot to justify only five maps, and when two of them are remakes from Modern Warfare 1, the deal is looking even worse. And quite frankly, it is. While the maps are good in and of themselves — they’ll certainly satisfy MW2 junkies — the price tag is a bit too hard to swallow. So what do you get for $15?

You get three new maps, Storm, based in a warehouse location, Bailout, set in an apartment complex, and Salvage, which is set in a salvage yard and is clearly the most uninspired of the three. The maps are all well balanced and easy to figure out, that’s not to say they are simple, but if you’re used to MW2′s maps, you’ll feel right at home. The two remake maps, Overgrown and Crash, will certainly be appreciated by fans of the first game — they’re just as cool and just as popular as they were two years ago.

However, considering that you’re spending $15 — a quarter of the price for a retail game — the Stimulus Package isn’t that good of a deal for three new maps. Even $10 would’ve been pushing it, and it’s clear that Activision is trying to see just how far they can push the envelope. But if you’re a die hard MW2 player and wish to relive the old maps in particular, you’ve probably already bought the DLC. If you’re not an MW2 junkie and only play occasionally, skip this DLC, or wait until it goes on sale.

Sure, games in the past have allowed you to mate with non-playable characters and then have babies, but have you ever dreamed of mating with an actual (virtual) person? Well, in Fable 3, you can. It was just announced that players will be able to have sex with each other in the co-op mode and then have babies of their own.

I can see this turning into something really, really weird.

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“No pictures!”, is probably what Kane & Lynch would be yelling on the new Kane & Lynch 2 box art. It looks pretty sweet and realistic, and more importantly, looks original. What do you guys think?