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In preparation for the release of their Gears of War action figures, NECA just launched the official GoW series one website complete with photos, some making-of shots and a weapon breakdown as well. Simply point your browser in this general direction to view all all the Gears action figure goods and to begin the action figure envy process. Also, Figures.com has a quick and dirty writeup about NECA’s upcoming GoW products, including what’s headed our way with the second series and (pro-hint) there will be Carmine.

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Epic fans hoping for a little pre-release Locust-slaying action will be disappointed to hear that no demo is planned for Gears of War 2. The first taste of the roadie-running action title will have to come when the full version is released sometime in November.

According to associate producer Tanya Jessen, producing a demo takes valuable time out of a game’s development cycle, and with a two-year turnaround for Gears 2 a demo was simply not feasible. The first Gears of War also lacked a demo version, and with recent reports that demos aren’t as great as publishers think they are, we have to trust that the folks at Epic know exactly what they’re doing.

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Normally, it’s Epic Games’ Mark Rein that’s throwing down the console-related taunts but, during an IGN interview at the New York Comic Con over the weekend, Epic Games’ President Mike Capps dropped a chainsaw into the Wii. Now, one could argue the IGN interviewer provoked Capps’ response with lines like, “Come on, why are you buying this system?!” but Capps held his own, comparing sales of the Wii to a virus: “So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they’ve showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on.”

Before you get all upset, Capps’ followup remarks put things into better perspective. When asked if Epic will ever make games for the Wii, he matter-of-factly replies, “No, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech.” Considering the incredible success Epic has had developing for the Xbox 360 and, to a lesser degree, the PS3 consoles – not to mention its incredibly lucrative engine-licensing business – is it any surprise that the independent company is quite content where it is?

[Via Megatonik]

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RED is really going all out at NAB this year. In addition to that Scarlet 3K “pocket” camera, the RED ONE is getting seriously one-upped by the new top-of-the-line RED EPIC. This 5K camera has a full-frame S35mm Mysterium X sensor, and pretty much matches 35mm film resolution — RED ONE topped out at 4K. FPS is limited to 100, which is to be expected with all those pixels to handle, but other features match that of other RED cams. Of course, the promise of the RED ONE “rendering obsolescence obsolete” has been slightly trampled by EPIC, but the good news is that RED will allow ONE customers to trade in their cameras for a full $17,500 credit towards the EPIC when it ships in 2009. Price? About $30,000.

source:engadget