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  • GOW crew gets busy in Hollywood graveyard

    by 
    Richard Mitchell
    Richard Mitchell
    10.26.2006

    Is anything funnier than sacrilege? We think not. The peeps over at Gamerscore Blog have posted some pictures from last night's Gears of War party at the Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles. Above we see CliffyB -- "Scratch Master Cliff," as he likes to be called -- laying down some fat beats ... inside a mausoleum. Apparently, the acousitcs are fantastic. It looks like Hollywood's spirits got some revenge, though. See how after the break.

  • Cliffy made you a mix tape! (Win this "Mad World" disc) [update 1]

    by 
    Vladimir Cole
    Vladimir Cole
    10.26.2006

    Gears of War game designer Cliff Bleszinski signed just 15 discs like the one shown above, then someone over in the mailroom screwed up and mailed us one of them, so we're giving it away to a lucky reader before they realize the mistake and issue a recall. On the disc: Some muddy art, a "15 of 15" designation, our incriminating fingerprints, drool, and what must be CliffyB's siggy. In the disc: the excellent "Mad World" trailer in full Emo-HD glory, all 60,073 KB of it (filename: Gears_of_War_Mad_World_60_Second_Version_ESRB_720p30_51_8Mbps.wmv). The choice of Gary Jules' downtempo version of Tears for Fears' "Mad World" was inspired, lending the trailer a freshness rarely seen (or heard) in the oft-trite marketing of console shooters. Microsoft evidently recognizes that this is a pretty special trailer, because they've made it an exclusive download for paying Xbox Live subscribers and plan to air it on TV and in cinemas, according to Xbox Live's Major Nelson. To win this disc: