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Gears of War: Judgement Officially Dated

No more of this “sometime in March” hogwash, folks. Developer People Can Fly, under the guiding eye of Epic Games, are bringing the Locust slaughtering prequel to our Xbox 360’s on March 19th, 2013.

Just as 343 Industries is injecting fresh blood into Halo, PCF is tossing new ideas into Judgement like grenades, hoping to transform the terrain. A character class system, a varying narrative dependent on your difficulty, a quicker pace to the action, and the mash-up of Beast Mode and Horde Mode into one out of control offering called OverRun all go towards setting Judgement apart from the main series and giving it an identity unto itself.

First quarter next year is filled to the brim with AAA releases, but I think it’s safe to say Gears of War: Judgement will stand tall in 2013.

Greetings and hello’s, friendly gaming readers not phased by this block of text.  Welcome to a very special morning edition of the Roundup.  Once again, the Roundup serves as a gathering of news and happenings that The Red Herb missed out on because I’m a terrible human being.  And boy howdy, did I miss out on a lot of shit.  After a slew of conferences Monday, the E3 show floors filled with attendees yesterday – most united under the pen of journalism –  ready to get their mitts on the hottest upcoming games and the newest innovations in video game technology.

Me?  I was at work.  The Herb’s not exactly what’d you call a “paying gig,” so I had to while away the hours not streaming E3 goodness directly into my brain.  Because of my plight, I wasn’t able to cobble words in real-time and throw them at all the awesome, stupid, and stupidly awesome things we saw yesterday.  But don’t think I’d let that bastard news get away from me.  I may be late to it, but I’d sooner die face down, naked in a ditch than let these announcements go another second without me being mildly sarcastic about them.

I’ll have to be brief; my assholey-ness bitterly succinct.  Here goes – welcome to our first ever E3 Roundup ™.

Howdy, fellow gaming connoisseurs, E3 has officially begun and Microsoft was the first company to kick off the showcase.  After watching the SmartGlass presentation, I came away with the feeling Xbox wants to take over every last device I own in my house.  I’m really, very excited for E3 2013 where we’ll see the unveiling of Xbox Integration Chips planted into our gray matter so that I may browse my apps with a simple scream.  But I’m getting ahead of myself, let’s take a look at what actually mattered at the show, in this year – the games.

Rev your lancers for the proper announcement of Gears of War: Judgement.  Apparently starring younger versions of our favorite muscle-headed COGs Cole and Baird, Epic Games is handing off development duties to People Can Fly (you may recall their previous dick joke opus, Bulletstorm, from early last year).  The title screams prequel and the quasi-finality of GoW3 supports this theory (besides, look at those baby faces up there – these guys definitely have lighter kill tallies than when we first met them in 2006).

Both Monday’s Microsoft conference and July’s Game Informer will shine some iridescent Imulsion light on this installment, so stay alert, gears.