Emergence Day Promos All Day Long
As a reminder, the Xbox Live Emergence Day promotions begin today. Here is a quick recap of the events:
Leaderboard tournament: The 24-hour leaderboard tournament winner receives a one-of-a-kind Gears of War branded guitar as well as an automatic bye to the finals of a global Gears of War tournament planned for 2007.
Hourly sweepstakes drawings: Prize giveaways mean you could win one of several Samsung HT-P29 Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound Systems.
Gamer pic and theme: Score the exclusive free Gears of War gamer pic and theme, only available on Emergence Day.
Game with Fame: Play with legendary heavy metal band and Gears of War fans Megadeth, the game’s lead designer Cliff Bleszinski, and other members of the Epic Games team.
New videos: Check out the never-before-seen videos including a special Emergence Day transmission from Cliff Bleszinski.
MTV Special: Watch the MTV “Gears of War: The Road to Launch” sneak preview.
As you can see below, the Live downloads are now up and ready for everyone. No sighting of the MTV Special content, yet.
As far as the Tournament is considered, currently the leaderboards for Ranked Play have not been reset yet as of this writing at 3:00AM CST. I’m sure they will sometime soon and I’ll update this post accordingly.
[...] On a related note according to Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, the patch that was released the first time you powered Gears of War was to fix an issue with the Leaderboards. He told us that information while playing online with him during the Emergence Day Promo on Saturday. We did capture some gameplay videos during this, so I may edit together a Mark Gets Owned and Mark Owns All montage of video clips. Depends on how good the footage is, I haven’t watched through it all in some time. [...]