180°

Official Microsoft Release - GoW Annex - Update Video and Description

Officially coming out April 9th, 2007 at 7:00 PM Eastern

Here are more details for the upcoming update straight from the Microsoft email,

In Annex, gamers seize victory by keeping control over key map locations, or objectives, long enough to collect a winning number of points. Every map contains two to five identified objectives available for capture, with one objective active at a time. Objectives are based on map weapon-spawn locations and have a potential value of 60 points toward either team's score. Teams collect those points by maintaining ownership of an objective until all 60 points have been distributed. Every second that a team controls an objective, the team gets one point. When an objective falls to zero points, the next objective is selected at random.

VGA Cable Support: Monitor resolution widths greater than or equal to 1280 now render as letterbox. In particular VGA users running at 1280×1024 will now see the game in full 720p (1280×720) resolution in letterboxed form.

Adjusted Assassination Multiplayer Gametype: Leader no longer has to unlock weapons and now has to be executed to die.

Adjusted Boomshot: Splash damage to be more effective rendering targets down-but-not-out

Adjusted Hammer of Dawn: Aiming will be more forgiving of moving targets

Adjusted Roadie Run: Reduced frequency of accidently grabbing cover while running

Kill Message Ticker: Ticker can now be seen while down-but-not-out and spectating

General: Addressed a number of possible exploits in multiplayer
Alternative Sources:
Gears of War Update - majornelson.com | By: DaKing240
Also here - gamerscoreblog.com | By: Hooded Vendetta
Also here - majornelson.com | By: Hooded Vendetta
DaKing240 - contributor
Published: 818 days 2 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 
 

Multi
Xbox 360 Outselling Wii 2 to 1 In The UK
Multi | News
Negative Gamer: Is Nintendo's runaway success starting to slow down? Sales figures released at the Annual General Meeting of The GAME Group suggest...

Xbox 360
New Xbox 360 Portable Revision 5
Xbox 360 | Images
Ben Heck: "A few months ago I announced that I would be building a few more Xbox 360 portables, and well, here's one now! While it looks simil...

Multi
GameBoyz: Fight Night Round 4 Review
Multi | Review
GameBoyz writes: "EA Sports Fight Night Round 4 stands as arguably the best boxing game available on next generation consoles. The visuals are...
10°

Xbox 360
EPIC Games banning complainers
Xbox 360 | Article
"Earlier today I received a report that EPIC Games was banning people on their official forums for making suggestions on what to change in the...
About N4G
N4G is a social game news site that covers the game industry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
More Info... | Submit News