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Gears of War 3 Gets Leaked, Law Enforcement On the Case

by Harry Monogenis, posted on 04 July 2011 / 5,696 Views

Video games getting leaked onto the Internet aren't anything new. So far this year we've seen the likes of Killzone 3, Crysis 2 and Bulletstorm all finding their way onto torrent sites. These games were all just severeal weeks away from public consumption, however Gears of War 3 has now been leaked several months before its release.

Footage of the leaked build has spread like wildfire on several sites, but particularly YouTube. The leaked build appears to contain a playable version of Gears of War 3's singleplayer campaign. Said videos contain spoilers, lots of spoilers, so it's advised that fans of the series avoid searching for Gears of War 3 specific videos for now. YouTube have already begun taking down several of the videos.

gamrFeed got into contact with Microsoft and they provided us with the following statement:

We have seen the reports of Gears of War 3 content being propped on the Web and working closely with our security teams and law enforcement to address the situation. This content is not from a final build and is not representative of what fans will enjoy when the game launches worldwide on September 20, 2011.

It's not known at this time who's responsible for the leak, but some are beginning to wonder if this was an inside job. Could someone from Epic Games (for whatever reason) be behind it? Let us know what you think in the comments below.


10 Comments

brendude13
brendude13 (on 04 July 2011)

HOW!? Were the developers playing frisbee with a beta disc or something?

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ThePS3News
ThePS3News (on 04 July 2011)

Epic games just did an Epic fail. :)

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mundus6
mundus6 (on 04 July 2011)

These early leaks on Xbox only work on very specific Xboxes called Jtag. Since there is currently no way to Jtag Xboxes with a 2009 update or later, its only very old xboxes that has this (if they are still alive). So i don't think there will be more than a couple of thousand players though. If this was a regular leak, this would be huge though.

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DEADLY SINNERS
DEADLY SINNERS (on 05 July 2011)

This happens all the time Why do people act so surprised.

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usrevenge
usrevenge (on 05 July 2011)

mundus you are completely wrong... you can mod any xbox disk drive to read any disk. the purpose is to allow home brew, but it also allows piracy. the big news and pathetic thing here is that this means most if not all of GOW3 is complete. epic might be pulled a HALO ODST where the game was complete in APRIL then released in SEPTEMBER, no work was done in between those months....

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DEADLY SINNERS
DEADLY SINNERS (on 05 July 2011)

He said J-tag and he's right and wrong at the same time.

If this single player is leaked and can be put on a disk then yes flashed consoles can play it however if it is not then chances are only flashed consoles can play it.

To add he's completely right about what's needed to J-tag a console all consoles can be flashed but not j taged

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dirkd2323
dirkd2323 (on 05 July 2011)

its a in side for for sure, how else would content of the entire single player campaign get out, something of this size , an entire game had to come from inside, I dont see how else it could of happened

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WiseOwl
WiseOwl (on 05 July 2011)

The leaks are getting out of control and for what, to let everyone know something before time. I would much like to play the game then have the spoilers tell me about it.

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spynx
spynx (on 05 July 2011)

Gears 2 also happened to be leaked , so i'm sure it's an inside job.

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spurgeonryan
spurgeonryan (on 04 July 2011)

Wow! I just barely saw this before I signed off my computer (never vgchartz). That is crazy that this has happened! Who thinks it will be a big hit for this game?

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