Gears of War Realm

While North America, yes also including Canada, gets first grab at Gears of War on November 12, 2006, the rest of the international community wont have to wait too much longer to “Get their Gears On”. Vice President of Epic Games, Mark Rein, revealed in an IRC chat room the other dates for the game. Europe gets their Gears five days later on November 17th (that’s the same day as PS3 European release date BTW), Australia/New Zealand get it two weeks later on November 24th and Japan has a non-solidified day sometime in December.

Mark added that there sadly will be no demo of the game, atleast before the game launches. So don’t be holding your breath for a demo. He also mentioned a big event around Emergence Day, so I’m sure we’ll hear more about that in the coming months. He also claimed that Epic was not behind the messages on Xbox Live but rather that Microsoft was behind it. Also he stated that Epic is still hard at work focusing mostly on the single player experience, and are throwing in a few “jumping out of your seat” moments into the game. I know I personally can’t wait!

[Thanks to digg user estvir for the recap of the chat room events]