“First to Play” New Gears 2 Maps? Yes Please!

As everyone in the “know” knows Twitter is fast becoming the place to find all your up gaming news in real time. It provides direct contact from devs/publishers to the people buying and playing their games. This was true when @dennya tweeted about an oppurtunity for people in the Seattle area. Appears that Friday May 15th, 2009 Epic and Microsoft are going to be previewing the new Gears of War 2 maps, named “All Fronts Collection“.

(contains) all of the Gears 2 map packs released to date—the Flashback Map Pack, Combustible Map Pack, and Snowblind Map Pack—All Fronts features the debut of Gears of War 2: Dark Corners, a collection of seven multiplayer maps and a never-before-seen deleted campaign chapter titled “Road to Ruin.” In this deleted scene, Marcus and Dom return to the Locust Hollow in an action-packed encounter that can be played guns blazing or silent and stealthy.

” from Xbox.com But you can play them early by going to this link on xbox.com and registering. You will need to be in the Seattle area next Friday night! I got my confirmation!