According to recent interview with Cliff Bleszinski and Mark Rein from Epic, we can hopefully expect a Gears of War update before the end of December.
Speaking to Planet Gears of War, they were asked, "
What sort of things do you guys have in mind for downloadable content? Are there any plans to extend the single-player game as well as multiplayer?"
Lead designer of Gears, CliffyB responded, "
Xbox Live is an umbilical crackpipe that an entire generation of gamers are rapidly becoming addicted to. The versus is where we plan on extending the fun of Gears online and thus any continuation of the single player experience remains to be seen."
While Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, had this to say, "
The first update we do will be some housekeeping to take care of a few things we need to adjust. We hope to have that in the pipeline before too long. Unfortunately the certification group at Microsoft shuts down relatively early in December so we’re racing against the clock to try to get it finished and certified for release through the Xbox Live update system. Judging by all the great Xbox360 games that have been released recently these folks deserve to have a great holiday season!"
So if you, like the rest of us, have been getting those annoying "connection lost to host" problems, hopefully they should be solved just in time for the Christmas holidays and make for some even greater multiplayer GoW gaming, not to mention the VGA widescreen bug being fixed.
You can read the full interview
here.
