"Gears of War-2 level" Announcements at GDC

[The_root_of_all_evil]

"Gears of War-2 level" Announcements at GDC

Industry insider Geoff Keighley says there will be a blockbuster announcement at this year's GDC.

Geoff Keighley, from GTTV, obviously remembers that last year's keynote speech from Microsoft was the release of Gears Of War 2, and suspects (or knows) that something else is in the pipeline, and let this little Twitter out of the bag:

"Interesting to see Variety expecting no Gears of War-2 level announcements at GDC. They are wrong. Stay tuned."

GDC, if you've been living under a rock, is the Game Developers Conference 2009, which starts off the gaming industry's trade show tour. With luminaries like Peter Molyneux, Satoru Iwata & Hideo Kojima giving keynotes speeches, there's bound to be some of the most exciting gaming news of this year released.

The Escapist has a team on the floor at GDC, so stay tuned - many Bothans shall die to bring you this information (and further coverage)!

Source: VG 24/7 [http://www.vg247.com/2009/03/24/gdc-gears-of-war-2-level-announcements-to-hit-show-says-keighley/]

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[ThaBenMan]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

 

[Booze Zombie]

If only they'd announce a zombie RTS... if only.

 

[oliveira8]

Bet its Gears of War 3....doh!

 

[bad rider]

*dreams of annonuncement*

Epic spokesperson"Hey you know the buggy laggy multiplayer."
CliffyB *jumps out with his chainsaw gun* "We fixed it woooh!!"

 

[Brotherofwill]

Gear of War 2 level announcement called a 'blockbuster'? Not quite...
That's even less of an announcement than Sony's new physics gimmick

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

 

[Archaon6044]

with any luck we'll hear molyneux apologise for making such a shambles out of the end of Fable 2, and for not making it better than Fable: The Lost Chapters, or it's direct predessor

 

[bad rider]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

Far bigger than Gears of War 2.

Thats the problem, its such a low bar, I can't think of anything that would be likely to be on par with it. Kojimas new project? Bigger. Details on Trico? Bigger. The Ps3 price cut? Bigger. The only thing I can think he's reffering to is maybe Fable III.

Maybe they designed new pencils?

 

[John Funk]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

Far bigger than Gears of War 2.

Thats the problem, its such a low bar, I can't think of anything that would be likely to be on par with it. Kojimas new project? Bigger. Details on Trico? Bigger. The Ps3 price cut? Bigger. The only thing I can think he's reffering to is maybe Fable III.

Let's be fair, here. MGS5, Half Life 3 would be bigger (Half Life more so than Kojima). As much as ICO and SotC were awesome, though, GeoW is an exponentially more popular franchise.

 

[oliveira8]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

Far bigger than Gears of War 2.

Thats the problem, its such a low bar, I can't think of anything that would be likely to be on par with it. Kojimas new project? Bigger. Details on Trico? Bigger. The Ps3 price cut? Bigger. The only thing I can think he's reffering to is maybe Fable III.

Let's be fair, here. MGS5, Half Life 3 would be bigger (Half Life more so than Kojima). As much as ICO and SotC were awesome, though, GeoW is an exponentially more popular franchise.

Half Life 2 Episode 3 would be the announcement. Considering there is 0 info on the game still out, even a screenshot would be welcomed.

 

[Brotherofwill]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

Far bigger than Gears of War 2.

Thats the problem, its such a low bar, I can't think of anything that would be likely to be on par with it. Kojimas new project? Bigger. Details on Trico? Bigger. The Ps3 price cut? Bigger. The only thing I can think he's reffering to is maybe Fable III.

Let's be fair, here. MGS5, Half Life 3 would be bigger (Half Life more so than Kojima). As much as ICO and SotC were awesome, though, GeoW is an exponentially more popular franchise.

Well I don't think we are talking about GeoW 3 here, more like new maps. A new map-set announcement is about as low as it gets in the spectrum of announcements, I bet people would be more psyched about the new G-Force game than some petty maps.

You might actually be right about the Team Ico thing. The sad state the gaming culture is in could lead to more publicity for a couple of buggy multiplayer maps than for the potential gem that is the new Team Ico game.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

Far bigger than Gears of War 2.

Thats the problem, its such a low bar, I can't think of anything that would be likely to be on par with it. Kojimas new project? Bigger. Details on Trico? Bigger. The Ps3 price cut? Bigger. The only thing I can think he's reffering to is maybe Fable III.

Well, I dunno... you and I and a lot of others here at the Escapist at least don't think Gears is a big deal, but a lot of people do. I'd say it and HL are pretty even in terms of popularity.

 

[black lincon]

*dreams of annonuncement*

Epic spokesperson"Hey you know the buggy laggy multiplayer."
CliffyB *jumps out with his chainsaw gun* "We fixed it woooh!!"

And I still wouldn't believe him.

 

[oliveira8]

Sweet. Hmmm, I'm going to guess maybe... Half-Life (episode?) 3?

Hope to get some new Team Ico news, apart from that yaaawn at the GDC.

Far bigger than Gears of War 2.

Thats the problem, its such a low bar, I can't think of anything that would be likely to be on par with it. Kojimas new project? Bigger. Details on Trico? Bigger. The Ps3 price cut? Bigger. The only thing I can think he's reffering to is maybe Fable III.

Let's be fair, here. MGS5, Half Life 3 would be bigger (Half Life more so than Kojima). As much as ICO and SotC were awesome, though, GeoW is an exponentially more popular franchise.

Half Life 2 Episode 3 would be the announcement. Considering there is 0 info on the game still out, even a screenshot would be welcomed.

That doesn't mean anything - hell, I've already predicted the plot for the first episode, and asked people to bookmark it. Despite the fuss people will make about information we "learn", if you look at the others, you can really pick up what will happen.

Dude guessing the main plot of episode 1 wasnt a very complicated thing to do. Heck 1 year after HL2 or less there was a news about being a new Half Life game named Half Life 2: Aftermath were the plot was Gordon, Barney and Alyx escaping City 17. Very diferent of what might happen in Episode 3, cause theres no plot details on it. The only thing you can guess is that going to find the ship. From there you can deposit your Ep3 plot guess along side the other hundred I have read.