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Gears of War: Judgment Reapers of the Week – Week 2

Reaper_MedalEach week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community.

Our new group has been chosen!  The first group are members of the Epic Games Forum moderation team who are back for another week one of our valued community members from Brazil. Rounding out the group is a favorite Community artist, Alvaro in Chile. We also have two UK Reapers signed up and we’ll announce them later today or tomorrow.

Each will will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags.

You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla and Fl4k.

Cher – USA – Gamertag: CherLeigh
James – Australia – Gamertag: IxI Zap IxI
Ruben – Italy – Gamertag: Nc DarkAp89
Gnashes – US – Gamertag: Gnashes
Alvaro – Chile – Gamertag: Dizzy Boomero
Eugene – Taiwan – Gamertag: yakitori420
Paulo – Brazil – Gamertag: paulohmarques
Shaun – UK – Gamertag: eX Shauny

Follow the Reaper_Tracker for hints where they will be. Thanks to Gnashes and Bizkitdoh for the feed and good luck slaying the Reaper! If you would like to nominate someone to be the Reaper, you can post in THIS thread or on Twitter using the hashtag #GearsReaper.

Posted by Flak Apr 01, 2013
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The Voice Actors Behind the Gears of War: Judgment Characters

Many of you have been asking who the voice actors are for the Gears of War: Judgment characters. In this installment of the Gears of War series, Baird, brought to life by Fred Tatasciore, takes center stage. Fighting beside him is his friend Augustus Cole, voiced by Lester Speight. Rounding out Kilo Squad is Paduk (Chris Cox) and Sofia (Ali Hillis). Be sure to check out “Gear Talk” for question and answer sessions with Cole and Baird! Learn more about Kilo Squad HERE.

Other cast members include Carolyn Seymour who voices a perfectly evil Queen Myrrah, Michael Gough who takes on the role of the humble Carmine and Laura Bailey as the smart aleck, Alex Brand.

Below is a full list with links to pages about this talented bunch!

fredFred Tatasciore (Baird) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Tatasciore

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851317/

lester_speightLester Speight (Cole) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Speight

http://www.lesterspeight.com/

chrisChris Cox (Paduk) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cox_(actor)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184963/

 aliAli Hillis (Sofia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Hillis

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385029/

bruceBruce Thomas (Loomis) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Thomas_(actor)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858573/

michaelMichael Gough (Carmine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gough_(voice_actor)

http://www.michaelgough.com/

johnJohn DiMaggio (Marcus) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DiMaggio

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224007/

carlosfCarlos Ferro (Dom) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ferro

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0274967/

carolynCarolyn Seymour (Myrrah) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Seymour

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786809/

alexLaura Bailey (Alex Brand) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bailey_(voice_actress)

http://www.lizardbee.com/

Posted by Flak Mar 27, 2013
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Epic to Host GDC Drop-In Hours, Oculus to Release Custom UDK

It’s one of our favorite times of year: The annual Game Developers Conference has kicked off, and we have loads of news for everyone this week.

Drop In, Come See Us!

Unreal Engine 4 on IGNDuring each day of the GDC exposition (Wednesday, March 27, through Friday, March 29), Epic is hosting dedicated drop-in hours from 10 – 11 a.m. PDT at our booth in the business center, North #BS322.

These time slots are specifically designed for independent developers and teams who haven’t already secured an appointment to stop by and chat with one of our dedicated territory managers about any questions regarding Unreal Engine technology.

GDC attendees who show up for drop-in hours will be entered into daily raffles for state-of-the-art NVIDIA GTX TITAN graphics cards, which are virtually and physically flying off shelves.

We encourage folks to check out NVIDIA’s booth, South #1602, which is showcasing Epic’s very own Samaritan and Elemental demo content along with a sneak peek at what we’re presenting behind closed doors this year. The entire GeForce wall highlights the progression of our next-gen technology! As a heads up, NVIDIA will have a special reveal from us at their booth on Friday starting at the opening of the expo and running throughout the day.

The Future of VR Is Unreal!

oculus-rift-prototype_800.0_cinema_640.0Today we announced that Oculus VR will release a custom version of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 (UE3). The special UDK release will ship during the first week of April, giving all Oculus developers award-winning Unreal Engine tools for day one support, right out of the box.

In addition, as Oculus is now a member of Epic’s premier UE3 Integrated Partners Program (IPP), we are providing UE3 full source licensees with the Oculus integration code at no extra charge.

Oculus is showcasing two fantastic Unreal Engine demonstrations at GDC this week as well. The first is Hawken, the incredible mech shooter from Adhesive Games, who started out building their game and easily upgraded to a full source UE3 license. The second awesome VR experience that must be seen to be believed is Epic Citadel – our expanded snowy version as demonstrated by Oculus on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

There’s never been a better time to be an Unreal Engine developer. We’ll have more to share with everyone soon throughout the week. Stay tuned and be sure to follow @UnrealEngine!

Posted by Flak Mar 26, 2013
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Gears of War: Judgment Reapers of the Week

Gears ReaperTwo weeks ago, we posted about a new character skin in Gears of War: Judgment, the Gears Reaper. The Reaper has special abilities and physics so he’s not very easy to kill. If you do manage though, you will be rewarded with the Reaper medal and custom weapon skin!

Each week, members from the Gears of War community will be chosen to be the Epic Reaper. Members will be chosen based on their contributions to the community.

We have chosen our first Reapers from the community! The first group are members of the Epic Games Forum moderation team, the Epic Games Forum Clan and one of our valued community members from Brazil. Each will will receive a set of custom Gears of War: Judgment dog tags.

You will still also be able to find some of the developers from Epic Games playing as the Reaper as well as Raczilla and Fl4k.

Cher – USA – Gamertag: CherLeigh
James – Australia – Gamertag: IxI Zap IxI
Ruben – Italy – Gamertag: Nc DarkAp89
Cat – UK – Gamertag: Hurricane Cat
Al – UK – Gamertag: DJ CARNIV AL
Paulo – Brazil – Gamertag: paulohmarques

Follow the Reaper_Tracker for hints where they will be. Thanks to Gnashes for the feed and good luck slaying the Reaper! If you would like to nominate someone to be the Reaper, you can post in THIS thread or on Twitter using the hashtag #GearsReaper.

Posted by Flak Mar 25, 2013
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Gears of War: Judgment Lesson Series – The Ticker

island_sniperArCtyC and Skyllus are at it again – making fun informative tutorial videos to help the Gears of War community. In this video, Skyllus walks, er ticks us through some of the new Locust mechanics in the Gears of War: Judgment mode, OverRun. The Ticker is one of the most valuable classes in your attack against the COG’s defensive.

From ArCtyC: Welcome to the first episode of our Gears of War Judgment Lesson Series for Overun. I’m Skyllus and I’ll be going through all of the Locust classes for Overrun. This video features the Ticker and covers how to maximize points, deal with Engineers, eat grenades, and general gameplay tips.

Be sure to Follow Skyllus and ArCtyC on Twitter!

Posted by Flak Mar 21, 2013
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