{"id":11812,"date":"2011-05-19T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"23-million-people-suffered-the-chain-o-shame-in-gears-of-war-3-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/11812-23-million-people-suffered-the-chain-o-shame-in-gears-of-war-3-beta","title":{"rendered":"23 million people suffered the chain o\u2019 shame in Gears of War 3 beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Gears of War 3 public multiplayer beta has gibbed its last grunt, and Epic Games has released all the important numbers about it in loving memory.<\/p>\n<p>According to the announcement, 1.29 million players took part during the four-week period, clocking up a pretty impressive 249 years of game time over 11 million matches. That&rsquo;s also 927 million frags, 131 million executions, 23 million deaths by chainsaw, and 23 billion bullets fired.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&rsquo;s more &ndash; 4.9 billion ribbons and 291 million medals were also awarded, 435,000 players unlocked the beta-exclusive Thrashball Cole skin, and 234,000 blagged the beta-exclusive and totally kitsch Gold Retro Lancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An overwhelming success &#8211; we can&#8217;t thank the fans enough,&#8221; says Epic&rsquo;s Cliff Bleszinski. &#8220;While the beta was a fun way to give players an early taste of our game, it also provided us with invaluable feedback to help us refine and polish Gears of War 3 to ensure it&#8217;s truly the culmination of the trilogy we promised to the fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The game&rsquo;s scheduled to drop in September, and has already passed 1 million preorders worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number crunchin\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}