Snowblind Map Pack

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Tehflakes
Posted May 4th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Snowblind Map Pack
The Gears of War team at Epic, has been really busy lately. They have released title update number 3 as well as the new Snowblind Map Pack for 800 MS points. The 4 maps included are Underhill, Grindyard, Fuel Depot and Courtyard.
First up from Gears of War 1 remade and updated for Gears of War 2 is Fuel Depot. This is basically the same map from GoW with a few changes, right away you’ll notice the map is now covered in snow. Secondly, there are a few added cars through...
Halo Mythic Map Pack and Halo Wars Event

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Tehflakes
Posted February 26th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
On Thursday February 19th 2009 in the west end of Toronto Xbox community members and Media gathered at the Gladstone Hotel to check out the Halo 3 Mythic Map pack and Ensemble Studios final game Halo Wars. Check out the venue below.
Jeff Rivait was on hand from Microsoft to give everyone a demo of Halo Wars. Unfortunately being very new to the RTS (Real Time Strategy games) I decided it was better off not to embarrass myself in front of everyone so I decided just to watch everyone play...
Gears of War 2 Combustible Map Pack Review

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Tehflakes
Posted January 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
On December 15th 2008 at the Spike Videogame Awards Cole Train made a special appearance where he announced the Combustible map pack for GoW2 that would be released that night at 12am PST and cost 800 MS points (10 Dollars)
Here is the launch trailer courtesy of 1up.com/Gamevideos
Gears of War 2 'Combustible Map Pack' trailer
I know I am bit behind on posting about the map pack but I wanted to have sometime with the 3 new maps before posting about them.
Flood:
Flood is a smaller map tha...
Call of Duty®: World at War Review

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Tehflakes
Posted December 4th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Call of Duty: World at War (aka CoD: WaW) is the follow up to the smash hit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare developed by Infinity Ward. CoD: WaW is developed by Treyarch Studios who brought you such awful titles like Call of Duty 3. CoD3 was one of the first games I played on my Xbox 360 and, well, let’s just say I didn’t keep the game for very long. With the huge success of Modern Warfare, Treyarch has learned the valuable lessons that made Call of Duty 4 so popular and what provided it ...
Scene It?: Box Office Smash

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Tehflakes
Posted November 19th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
For someone who isn’t a big movie buff but plays casuals games with his significant other, who claims to be a movie buff, last years Scene It: Last Camera Action was quite the hit in my household. This year’s version Scene It: Box Office Smash brings some new features, hopefully some DLC packs and most importantly a real chance to win at this game on a game to game basis.
There are 22 different puzzles or challenges, if you will; including a few new types of questions such as, Pixel...
Gears Of War 2 Review

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Tehflakes
Posted November 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am
The holiday season is upon us and that means for gamers it’s time for a vast array of Triple A titles to be released. Gears of War 2, developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios, was released on November 7th, 2008 to high expectations. The original Gears of War is one the highest rated games and best sellers on the Xbox 360. The original Gears did a lot right such as introducing a fantastic cover system that may have changed the way we play shooters for ever. On the oth...
Contest Time! Gears of War 2 T-Shirt!

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Tehflakes
Posted November 14th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Want to own this cool Gears of War 2 t-shirt that was given away at the Toronto Gears of War 2 Launch event? Well here’s your chance. All you have to do is take an in game photo, upload it to Epic Games and send us your best shot!
Official Tehflakes.ca Contest Rules
Contest commences at 19:00 p.m. EST Friday November 14th 2008 and concludes at 11: 59 p.m. EST Monday December 1st 2008
E-mail us at ryan@tehflakes.ca with the following information:
Your Photo (duh)
Your Name
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