{"id":14004,"date":"2011-09-13T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"gold-plated-gears-of-war-3-guns-back-up-for-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/14004-gold-plated-gears-of-war-3-guns-back-up-for-grabs","title":{"rendered":"Gold-plated Gears of War 3 guns back up for grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you missed out on those repulsive gold-plated Lancers and Hammerbursts during the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta in April, your career as a pimp-COG might not be over just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the US Air Force has sponsored a &ldquo;Golden Wings Week&rdquo; over the Gears of War 3 launch, and players going into the online trenches between 20-26 September will unlock the skins.<\/p>\n<p>I checked the press release&rsquo;s small print stuff, and you won&rsquo;t also unlock a US Air Force enlistment, so it seems pretty safe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gold_plated_lancer_907173325.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"339\" height=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is by far the biggest, most polished, and most ambitious game we&#8217;ve ever made,&#8221; said Epic&#8217;s Cliff Bleszinski. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been lucky enough to work on some big games throughout my career, but Gears of War 3 represents a crowning achievement for our team, and we can&#8217;t wait to share it with fans next Tuesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/13876-Games-Gears-War-midnight-launches-countrywide.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"BT Games is hosting a bunch of midnight launch events\">BT Games is hosting a bunch of midnight launch events<\/a> all over the country. I&rsquo;ll be at Cavendish, so come over and say, &ldquo;Hi Tarryn, I hate your articles&rdquo; or whatever.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/17610-Gold-plated-Gears-of-War-3-guns-up-for-grabs-during-launch-week\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Gold-plated Gears of War guns back up for grabs\"><strong>Gold-plated Gears of War guns back up for grabs<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing back the bling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}