Gears of War 2 fans have something to be excited about with next week’s Comic-Con in San Diego, even if they can’t attend — actually it might be better if you can’t. Check this out: Rod Fergusson, the executive producer of the Gears of War franchise for Epic games, posted on his Twitter account about 24 hours ago a little deal for multiple experience for Gears of War 2.

“Ok, here’s my bribe. The SDCC XP event will be # of my followers divided by 500. So 4000 followers means 8x XP”

The first actual gameplay footage from Epic Games’ much-anticipated sequel Gears of War 3 was shown off at E3, and my-oh-my is it looking pretty insane.

The amount of goodies and news coming out of the convention is completely absurd, and though we’ll be bringing you a portion of the really exciting stuff, make sure you head over to G4 for any and everything that unfolds pretty much as it happens! They actually have so much going on right now that my computer doesn’t seem to be able to handle their site, which makes getting these gems to share with you pretty tough. Because of this, we’ve adapted to the situation!

First of all, you all need to immediately go out and purchase the new fitness revolution, the Shake Weight, and use it 24 hours a day until Gears 3 comes out. That’s the only way that your arms will be up to par. After you’ve confirmed your order, head to the other side to see the crazy first look at gameplay!

Confirmed! Looks like that leaked ad for Gears of War 3 that was seen on Xbox live the other day spoke the truth. Cliff Bleszinski, design director at Epic Games, appeared on The Jimmy Fallon show this week, and confirmed that Gears of War 3 will launch next April. Epic has since given a firm release date of April 5th.

A trailer had appeared online briefly, but was immediately taken down at the request of Epic Games. When it’s officially released, we’ll have it here.

This will be the third and final installment of the popular Gears of War video game series, which is exclusive to Xbox 360. The end of Gears 2 hinted that there may be something more sinister around than just the locust hordes. In the interview with Bleszinski, it was revealed what that more sinister enemy is: the Lambit. Bleszinski said that these are “kind of crazy tentacle monsters that can mutate while you are fighting them.”

We haven’t heard too much about the progress of turning the ultra-popular video game Gears of War into a major motion picture since hearing that Len Wiseman would be the man directing the project. Recently, Making Of had the chance to have a little chat with producer Wyck Godfrey, who was able to share a tiny little bit of information on where the film may be heading, including a decision which could make or break the project before it even begins.

Godfrey explained that they were working with Wiseman and that they had spoken with the gentlemen over at Epic Games who developed the series. It would appear that their big hurdle right now is whether they should jump right into the madness that we saw in the games, or if it would be better for them to do something of an origins story and show what things were like before the war with the Locust began.