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Cliffy B: Borderlands is the Diablo of the FPS generation

You know who likes Borderlands? Clifford Bleszinski! The Epic Games designer has spoken incredibly highly of Gearbox Software's "roleplaying shooter," going so far as to compare it with the class...
Rumortoid: Playable female character in Gears of War

So you may have noticed the severe lack of women in the Gears of War universe. There's Dom's wife, that other woman who keeps yelling at you over the intercom and I think I saw one running for he...
Bleszinski talks 'Dark Corners' campaign DLC

“Dark Corners” isn’t a traditional bit of downloadable content. The upcoming Gears of War 2 DLC will be multiplayer heavy as per Epic Games standard, however, nestled underneath...
BioWare's Muzyka: RPGs and shooters are blurring genre lines

Speaking with Wired.com, Bioware co-founder Ray Muzyka mentioed that he thinks that genre lines are "a vestige of the past," explaining that "a lot of the best shooters are RPGs as...
Cliffy B blames tech for bald space marine overload

Have you ever wondered why this generation's games are full of bald space marines in brown and gray environments? Of course you haven't, but don't worry, Cliffy B explains it all -- a bit like Cl...
Call Cliffy B whatever you want

Cliff Bleszinski has a reputation as a bit of a wanker, partly because he decided to stop calling himself Cliffy B, which some people took to be a mark of arrogance. According to Cliff, however, ...
Thank Christ: Cliffy B still likes Gears of War

Put down that razor, don't swallow that poison and for the love of God pull that hosepipe full of carbon monoxide out from your car window! Cliffy "Don't call me Cliffy B" B has reveale...
Cliffy B parody gets stomped on by Epic and Twitter

If you're anything like me, you enjoyed the frequent updates that came via "Cliffy B's" Twitter, as he'd recount stories of bench pressing employees, Cliffy-Punching Mark Rein, and havi...
Sam's Club goodies: Locust Drone bust and GOW2 autographed copy

Are you looking for some insane Christmas gifts for Gears of War 2 fans? Yeah, I'm not either, but just in case there's a few totally dedicated fans of their game of choice out there, we'll share...
Cliffy B's tubgirl faceplate

Uh ... okay. It's hard to type when your face is planted squarely in your palm, but you are looking at the pixelated version of what must now be Gears of War 2 designer Cliff Bleszinski's most pr...
Rumortoid: Cliffy B to create survival horror next

The blood isn't even dry on Gears of War 2 and we're already hearing about Cliff Bleszinski's next game. Quarterman of EGM has already heard that Cliffy's next game is a survival horror, says 1UP...
No Brumak attacks at LA Gears of War 2 launch, exciting nonetheless

While I was at home playing Gears of War 2, and Colette and Mr. Destructoid were hitting up midnight launches in Florida, Destructoid Los Angeles community members were holding it down on the Wes...
Gears of War 2 instruction manual contains preface by designer Cliff Bleszinski

We're one day away from the launch of Epic's Gears of War 2, an event which we're calling "Emergence Day 2: The Emergening." Many fans will stand in line at midnight launches to get the...
Epic (hehe) Gears of War 2 launch party in Los Angeles tomorrow night

Do you live in the Los Angeles area? Are you excited about Gears of War 2? Do you have nude pics of Cliffy B taped over your bed? If you answered yes to these questions then this is the event for...
Bleszinski misses the point of Mirror's Edge, demands more guns

Gears of War 2 developer Cliff "Don't Call Me CliffyB" Bleszinski has been sharing his thoughts on all the latest releases, marking out the games that have caught his eye recently. In p...
Bleszinski wants casual gamers in GoW 2, Wii disappearing ray yet to be invented

As a hardcore gamer, I would like to think Cliff Bleszinski and I have a special relationship. His vision for games, primarily the Gears of War series, shares much in common with what I desire fr...
Cliff Bleszinski thinks visionaries don't get industry respect

I once attended an interesting talk from game designer Ernest Adams who suggested that until game designers get the same level of recognition and respect as movie directors, then games still have...
Cliff Bleszinski calls Call of Duty-like development cycles 'soulless'

Cliff Bleszinski has no intention of farming out Gears of War. In an interview with Develop magazine at a recent press event, the designer spoke against the multi-developer approach to producing ...
Bleszinski isn't exactly the biggest fan of the PlayStation controller

In a recent engagement in London, Cliff Bleszinski candidly revealed that he wasn’t the biggest fan of the PlayStation 3 controller. In fact, one can even use the word “hate” an...
Cliffy Bleszy shows off Gears of War 2's multiplayer

Unreal Tournament 3 is set to come out next week for the Xbox 360 and it looks like Nick Chester totally called it. The exclusive Gears of War 2 video coming with Unreal 3 got put on to the Inter...
1UP talks Gears of War 2 multiplayer, posts video, we watch

After playing Gears of War 2, lead designer Cliff Bleszinski believes we'll want to become vegetarians. I'd actually tried doing that for about ten years and let me tell you, no videogame is ever...
Gears of War movie to be directed by Len Wiseman

It's been revealed that Len Wiseman, of Die Hard 4 and Underworld fame, will be directing the upcoming Gears of War flick. The film's target release date was originally summer 2009, but it's been...
Cliff Bleszinski ditches his nickname, gamers everywhere weep gently

Earlier today, game designer Cliff Bleszinski told MTV Multiplayer that he's opted to drop his world-renowned nickname, "CliffyB." The reasoning behind this controversial decision? He s...
Cliffy B: the current PC model is broken

When one hears the name Cliffy B, the words Gears of War are most likely to follow it up -- and you really can't fault anyone for that association. After all, Gears was the first game that truly ...
Will Gears of War movie be EPIC? Script writer talks about 'enormous' film

Stuart Beattie, the script writer working on the Gears of War movie adaptation has some ambitious hopes for his latest project. Beattie is planning to portray the backdrop of the planet Sera enti...
Cliffy B shares his thoughts on BioShock

Arguably one of the most popular faces of the games industry, Epic's Cliffy B, has recently shared his thoughts on the critically acclaimed, much beloved and Destructoid-approved BioShock on his ...
Cliffy B loves them chick flicks

I hate Gamespot. When I run a multi-million dollar Web site that's one of the most visited locations on the net, I'm pretty sure I'm going to think of a better question to ask the greatest develo...
Cliffy B loves them chick flicks

I hate Gamespot. When I run a multi-million dollar Web site that's one of the most visited locations on the net, I'm pretty sure I'm going to think of a better question to ask the greatest develo...
Cliffy B loves them chick flicks

I hate Gamespot. When I run a multi-million dollar Web site that's one of the most visited locations on the net, I'm pretty sure I'm going to think of a better question to ask the greatest develo...
Cliffy B loves them chick flicks

I hate Gamespot. When I run a multi-million dollar Web site that's one of the most visited locations on the net, I'm pretty sure I'm going to think of a better question to ask the greatest develo...
Weekend Destructainment: Hey baby, want a Screw Attack?

I had the pleasure of meeting Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig from ScrewAttack at E3 last week. We were at the Bethesda party and we got to talking about their videos. They brought up their E3...
Gears of War screenplay treatment appears, I type things

Latinoreview, the same site who managed to expose a point-by-point run-through of the Halo screenplay back in 2005, are apparently in possession of the treatment for the upcoming Gears of War m...
Gears of War: annex, respawns, and more coming directly

The goodies included in the latest free update for Gears of War have been revealed, and not only will you get a completely new mode, bug fixes, and an easier method to unlock your "Seriousl...
CliffyB to exec produce GoW movie; maybe there's hope for this one ...

CliffyB, the man behind such Epic hits as Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Gears of War has apparently been tapped to be the executive producer for the upcoming Gears of War movie. Whether that mea...
Epic cleans up at D.I.C.E. awards show; proclaims they 'beat the Wii'

While getting Game of the Year awards from Web sites and other gaming publications is all well and good, getting recognition from your peers holds even more weight. At the 10th Annual Interact...
Gears of War: 3 million sold

Microsoft announced today (via press release) that their killer app for the 2006 holiday season, Gears of War, has now sold an impressive 3 million copies. That's 3 million in just 10 weeks o...
Destructoid Editor's Choice Winners of 2006

Welcome to the new undisputed benchmark of awesome-because-we-said-so: Destructoid Editor's Choice Awards. (So fresh and so clean, clean.) The greatest. The worthy. The games sitting on the ...
Epic Games is now hiring

I know many Dtoid readers would love to one day make games, and that some readers are already doing exactly that, but for those of you fresh out of college  with game design degrees and unsu...




 
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