During game 5 of the NBA playoffs last night, Bethesda held their big pre-E3 press conference. While there were few surprises (indeed, Dishonored 2 was suspected to have been leaked a few nights prior), there was some amazing stuff on display. This morning, Microsoft held their press conference. While many could guess their lineup, Microsoft had a few big surprises as well.

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The Gears of War franchise was this console generation’s surprise hit. While everyone was busy waiting for Halo 3, Gear of War’s cover-focused gameplay, fun multiplayer, and beautiful Unreal Engine powered 3 graphics took gamers by surprise and made its way into many an Xbox 360 owner’s console. A fourth entry in the series, Judgement was released a few months ago, but many fans still prefer the classic third installment, and for good reason. It wraps up the trilogy in style.
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All killer, no filler.

These are all the videos from the Microsoft press event, minus the staged introductions from the executives.

Enjoy, and post your thoughts about any of these videos in our comments section!

aDam, Ernie, Zac, and Zero go off topic for an hour.

We’ll talk about Black Friday, Wikipedia, Rugrats, Super Mario, Saints Row The Third, Gears of War, Batman, and much more.

Let us know if you think this episode was not as good, just as good, or better than previous episodes. Because we didn’t plan this one at all and if we can avoid that in the future, we can save a lot of time.

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Direct Link:Powetcast 110: Information That Doesn’t Matter

End music: “i’m gone” by Kenna

Captain Genius said “We should have done a Halloween show!” but what he didn’t realize is he was saying this in the middle of October so we had plenty of time to make one. And here it is!

We talk some regular news for the first half and then dish out Halloweens Cool Beans! Also, Smurfs.

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Direct Link:Powetcast 108: Hello, Ween.

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Less than 3 weeks away from release, Epic Games has released a final trailer for the final game in the Gears Of War trilogy.

Just as they did with the “Mad World” and “Last Day” trailers, we have some very somber and calming music over a chaotic back drop. The song here is “Into Dust” by Mazzy Star.

Gearheads will finally get to play out Delta Squad’s last mission on September 20. If for some reason you did not play the previous games, you have wasted the last 5 years of you life. But its not too late, since Epic has released a “triple pack” that includes the first two games and all the expansion packs and maps for $30.

Gears 3’s multiplayer beta show the immense promise of the third act of the Xbox shooter series.

But the campaign is going to deliver hard. Marcus’ father is alive and the 3 sides are colliding in a major way. See the humans, the Lambent, and the Locusts tear everything up.

The original Gears Of War made a big splash with a trailer that featured Gary Jules’ subdued cover of “Mad World” and similarly the song “How It Ends” by Devothcka in the Gears 2 spot was more somber than exciting.

Gears Of War 3 pulls no punches. Its “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath and it kicks as much ass as the footage it scores.

In this exclusive footage from the Gears Of War Beta Test currently underway on XBox Live, Powet.TV has learned of a popular returning feature from previous games in the series.

And because no sequel is complete without new unexpected features, we have a whole new target to run after on the Old Town map.

With furniture and wildlife destructible, will Delta Squad ever deafeat the Locusts? Pre-Order Gears of War 3 today!