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.

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.

“All-Time Greatest Game Hero (ATG) is GameSpot’s new interactive editorial feature that gives you the opportunity to determine, once and for all, who the greatest video game hero is. You will also have a chance to manage your own brackets based own votes and win prizes. If you have participated in CBSSports’ March Madness, you’ll know exactly what we’re getting at.”

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Gears design director Cliff Bleszinski took some time to talk to Destructoid about Gears of War’s iconic armor design.

Bleszinski was realistic when I asked what the space armor said about the characters or world it’s based in: “The armor on the characters in Gears of War implies that they’re incredibly strong, resilient, and that they’re shot at on a regular basis,” he said.

But it’s not all about bullets and brutishness. After several iterations, the Epic team settled with armor they felt was “iconic,” and did more than make the men look tough. It was used to reinforce the need to use the game’s cover system.

“We cycled on the armor designs a fair amount until we came to rest on the iconic ‘rounded chestplate/blue emissive’ look,” Bleszinski said. “As with all things in game development, it required many iterations until we found something we all felt was iconic. Above all, it made the characters feel ‘heavy’ so that when the player took cover he really felt like he was slinging a massive entity against a wall.”

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The Xbox 360 is due a dashboard update tomorrow, which is to include the previously-reported Gears of War style armor for your Live avatar…

I havent played much this week due to our internet being messed up.. ,but I did get some word from the other clan members on who should be this weeks “Addict of The Week”. For this weeks “Addict of The Week” We chose none other than…. WildCody123. Wildcody played some gears this week with some of the other clan members, and One of our Generals (KAMiKAZE). I think he deserves some reconition. He is funny as hell to play gears with.. Cody does this ring a bell man ****’in CHAINSAAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!!!

Congrats Wildcody123!

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.

On this year’s G-Phoria, G4’s annual fan-curated awards show, gamers everywhere cast their vote and selected Gears of War 2 as the year’s best shooter. Was there ever any doubt?  Check out the G-Phoria Best Shooter results page for a rundown on the nominees, as well as the video showing Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski accepting the award.

The latest Gears novel, Gears of War: Jacinto’s Remnant, hit bookshelves last week. Epic has a video interview with the author Karen Traviss. She talks about her writing process, what it’s like to work within the Gears universe, and much more. Check it out [Here]

Siliconera has a brief interview with Gears design director Cliff Bleszinski on the recent Japanese launch of Gears of War 2…

How do you feel about the Japanese version of Gears of War 2?

Cliff Bleszinski, Lead Designer: They actually did a really good job casting the voices. Marcus sounds like, you know, how a Japanese version of Marcus would sound like and Cole Train always translates hilariously into other languages. [In an impression] It’s Cole Train woo!

It’s fun to play. It’s fun to see the subtitling and everything like that. We do have a share of Japanese fans out there and we’re glad we could fill the promise of letting them play Gears 2 in their local language.

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