For a while we’ve been hinting that we had a new project we’ve been working on. At last, it’s online and ready to go! Introducing The Gaming Rx, your source for all gaming on all platforms! Why did we create The Gaming Rx? Well, it’s easy to get burnt out on a game, now we have every game…including of course Gears of War / Gears of War 2. This site will remain up so anyone can access the wealth of information that is already here but in the future we’ll be spending most of our time posting in the new The Gaming Rx Forums.

Head over to The Gaming Rx and become a member!

Epic and Microsoft have teamed up to give gamers the chance to earn double experience points in Gears of War 2 this Labor Day weekend. There’s also the chance to play against Epic devs in a “Game with Developer” event taking place on Friday.

The event will run from Friday morning, Sept 4th till Tuesday morning, Sept 8th (Eastern time)

• Double experience for all Horde games and Public multiplayer games
• Winning team gets a 500 xp bonus in Public multiplayer
• Public Horde will default to Hardcore difficulty instead of Normal
•  Horde will be infected with Sires, just like the Ticker attack of July 4th
•  Hardcore Horde (Public or Private) will receive an extra experience boost (essentially double Hardcore will be the same as double Insane)
• The Game with Developer event will take place on Friday, Sept. 4th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). Look for the following Gamertags and send off an invite:

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Not enough sugar, caffeine and vitamin B12 in your life? Check out Boston America’s new licensed Imusion energy drink, inspired by the glowing goop from Gears of War. Unlike the yellowish fuel from the game, Imulsion does not turn drinkers into Lambent drones, instead giving them “a new form of tasty energy”.

Imulsion sells for $3 per 250ml can.

This message is to tell everyone one that is wanting to “join the clan.” We are not accepting any new members at this time. We will not be hosting any official competitions for a while (maybe ever) due to the amount of douchebags we’ve had to deal with in the past./lack of participation.. etc.

I still would like for all of the “Clan members” and well.. everyone else for the matter, to come and check back on this site for anything Gears. Even though we will not be doing anything “clan related” I will still keep the Gears of War Addicts site up-to-date as best as I can (prolly not quite as much ,but i will) this is still Gears of War Addicts…

My passion for video games has not died out.. Myself and the other Chairman have talked about a few ideas lately and may implement them soon. I’m not sure how any of this going to pan out.. but we will figure somthing out and will keep everyone posted.

Thanks,

         PWNiSH3R

Microsoft announced that Gears of War 2, one of the most critically acclaimed action games of 2008, will be getting its own Game of the Year edition

Set for release on September 1 for $39.99, this new edition includes the All Fronts Collection (including all 19 extra multiplayer maps), the Road to Ruin campaign chapter, and every achievement totaling 1750 Gamerscore points.

In a recent conference speech, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney revealed the development cost of Gears of War 2, putting it somewhere around the $12 million mark – a surprisingly modest sum for a current-gen blockbuster.

Tim also revealed that Gears of War 2 took 15 programmers and 45 artists over two years to create.

This weeks Addict was kinda hard to choose. There wasn’t one the clan member that stood out of rest. This week’s “Addict of the Week” is not just for this week alone, more of ever since she has been in the clan.. For this weeks “Addict of The Week” We have chosen xGWAx EdieKaye.

EdieKaye has been one the best clan members we have ever had. She is always on the site (which is what we like to see from the addicts.) She recently got her internet working to where she can actaully play with us as well. Shes not the best, but is a great sport and I know I speak for the clan.. I enjoy playing with her. Edie you’ve been such a great clan member, Thank you for all that you have done..

Congrats xGWAx EdieKaye

How do you become the Addict of The Week?

Each week on Sunday, the chairmen of Gears of War Addict will get together and decide who should be our Addict of The Week. We’ll base our decision on all sorts of things such as, who was most active on the website, who played the most, most improved, sportsmanship, among other things. If you have someone you’d like to nominate, leave a message on the forum or send any of us a message on Xbox Live saying who you’d like to nominate and why. These nominations will be taken into account when we are making the decision.

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More information will be added to this post as it becomes available.

This week was a pretty tough descion for me and the other Chairman.. After much debating on who should be “Addict of The Week” We decided to choose xGWAxBaGelEATER aka DraftyJordan. BaGelEATER was on Gears 2 alot this week. Even though I didn’ play as much as I would of liked to. When I was on he was either playing Gears with us, or he was playing with other clan members pretty much all week.

Congrats xGWAxBaGelEATER!

How do you become the Addict of The Week?

Each week on Sunday, the chairmen of Gears of War Addict will get together and decide who should be our Addict of The Week. We’ll base our decision on all sorts of things such as, who was most active on the website, who played the most, most improved, sportsmanship, among other things. If you have someone you’d like to nominate, leave a message on the forum or send any of us a message on Xbox Live saying who you’d like to nominate and why. These nominations will be taken into account when we are making the decision.

Gears of War is awesome yet it never hit the top of the live usage charts and it gets criticized like no other even after 4 title updates. If Epic could make the following changes/additions, I think this would easily be atop the usage charts and dive deeper into the hearts of the average gamer.

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