Rumor: Gears of War 2 'Dark Corners' DLC to be revealed this week

by David Hinkle { Mar 24th 2009 at 2:22PM }

Oil up that Lancer, Gears of War 2 fans, because we've got a juicy rumor you'll want to dig your chainsaw into. One very thorough user over at the Gears of War forum deduced via Geoff Keighley's Twitter and an alleged Asian product page (pictured) that the Gears 2 DLC train won't make its final stop at Snowblind. It appears the train will keep chugging along to its next stop, "Dark Corners," which may be announced during GDC09 this week.

The above image says that 'Dark Corners' will be arriving in April some time, after Snowblind, but that's really all we have to go on right now. We'll be sure to update as soon as we have more information.

Tags: dark-corners, dlc, epic, gears-of-war, gears-of-war-2, rumor, rumors

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Marcus @ Mar 24th 2009 2:27PM

better start revving my chainsaw!!!!!!

Ryguy226 @ Mar 24th 2009 2:31PM

Dear god, the latest one hasn't been out yet and already there is word that the very next one will be revealed. Ugh, too many DLC packs for this game already, think they should start offering the first one for free :)

Ogden2k @ Mar 24th 2009 4:09PM

I agree.

Ahmedz @ Mar 24th 2009 2:31PM

for the love of god NO MORE!

I still have FlashBack, Combustion and Snowblind to buy and Microsoft Points aren't easy and cheap to get over here >__>

WRE @ Mar 24th 2009 3:01PM

But can't you just add points over Live?

Ahmedz @ Mar 24th 2009 3:08PM

I need an American Credit Card since my account is US >__>

Heimbachae @ Mar 24th 2009 3:26PM

i don't think gears has any understanding of what "good timing" means. releasing 3 map packs within the year of launch what do they think this is rock band!?

Alex @ Mar 24th 2009 5:42PM

Flashback was free with a new copy of the game. Or one that had been traded in and not redeemed. But the second is not very likely.

Vcize @ Mar 24th 2009 6:04PM

So wait, you're one of those people from another country playing with a US account so when the game selects you as host it makes it laggy as crap for all of us to the point where we can barely make our way out of the spawn after 5 minutes?

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Ahmedz @ Mar 25th 2009 4:08AM

Fuck You.
It's not our fault Microsoft didn't make Xbox Live and Marketplace official to the Middle East aswell.

Cole @ Mar 24th 2009 2:31PM

Im more interested in the Halo Wars pic right there... hope that means DLC for that!

Felipe @ Mar 24th 2009 2:43PM

same here

joeybeast @ Mar 24th 2009 2:51PM

it's advertising the demo.

TakeCTRL @ Mar 26th 2009 3:23AM

@ joeybeast

thanks for crushing our dreams.

RookieJr @ Mar 24th 2009 2:32PM

Jeez, another one?
I love playing Gears 2 online, despite the issues, but I did not buy the first map pack.

I will not buy the one coming out next

And I will not be buying this one.
Seriously, 10 bucks for a few new maps is not a good deal to me. The $30 you spend on these packs could have been better spent on some great XBLA games like Braid or something.

roger @ Mar 24th 2009 2:56PM

Same here, I refuse to pay for any map pack unless there is something new given like the COD:WAW pack that has a new kick @$$ zombie mode.

meth0dical @ Mar 24th 2009 4:17PM

@roger
did you just say "new zombie mode"...?
isnt it just a new map for the existing zombie mode...? so didnt you basically just buy a map pack...?

...?

Markez @ Mar 24th 2009 2:34PM

Is it going to be just maps I wonder?

joeybeast @ Mar 24th 2009 2:55PM

The characters following "Dark Corners" is the same as "Snow Blind" and it means map pack.
And it means map pack.

ZenGaijin @ Mar 24th 2009 2:34PM

Man what a difference that patch makes, this game went from horribily broken to not quite as good sequel.

EtOH @ Mar 24th 2009 2:44PM

So today's patch really did work this time? I have yet to update the game.

ZenGaijin @ Mar 24th 2009 2:46PM

It compliments the way I play I was never one to run up and melee people. So now there is a delay before you can pull off a melee outta roadie run.

This makes the game focus more on shooting and less on bum rush tactics.

Jambi_Bum @ Mar 24th 2009 3:11PM

The patch really did help a hell of a lot. I've been playing all morning. Before the patch I could probably only play 2 hours at a time before it drove me insane. It's not quite as good as Gears 1 multiplayer, but it's finally good fun again.

joeybeast @ Mar 24th 2009 2:50PM

That's what it said.

HT UK @ Mar 24th 2009 2:52PM

Dustin is gonna be happy!

EtOH @ Mar 24th 2009 2:54PM

It would be tighter if it was free.

baby sea tuna @ Mar 24th 2009 2:54PM

Moar campaign plz.

Hyams @ Mar 24th 2009 3:21PM

Well, there's a rumour that they're planning on releasing campaign DLC. So ... maybe?

Mister Bogus (Mr. ESC) @ Mar 24th 2009 3:29PM

Yeah me too I hate online games,you would too if you had an ungodly amount of lag.

(Except for Battlefield and tf2 since I pwn at those games)

Screw map packs I would pay 1200p for a new Campaing DLC.

4dSwissCheese @ Mar 24th 2009 3:01PM

I'm with those who are saying that this is too much DLC too fast. When I'm playing with a group of friends, there's always a few who don't have the maps, so we hardly ever play the new maps, which means even fewer of us buy the next new set of maps.

The Halo 2/3 approach would be better - slow the rollout of the DLC, cut the price or make it free in 6 months once the next map pack comes out. That way everyone ends up with the maps eventually, so they actually get played a bunch.

Markez @ Mar 24th 2009 3:12PM

For the more casual GoW2 multiplayer fellow, it's kind of nice in that you might get to play on a wider variety of maps with more seasoned people who don't necessarily have everything absolutely memorized yet.

Conor @ Mar 26th 2009 2:48PM

Well said.

In A World (XBL) @ Mar 24th 2009 3:04PM

GOW1 maps that still aren't DLC for GOW2
(I've highlighted my candidates for Dark Corners):

Bullet Marsh
**Clocktower**
Escalation
Garden
Mausoleum
Old Bones
Process
Raven Down
**Rooftops**
War Machine

OWENR22 @ Mar 24th 2009 5:24PM

I think War Machine and Raven Down are more likely to be in it, they always seemed to be pretty popular when i played on Gears 1. Personally I'd like to see Mausoleum and Old bones. That would be sweet. I love those maps.

Vcize @ Mar 24th 2009 6:07PM

ROOFTOPS!!!!

But seriously, as much as I love Rooftops, War Machine and Mausoleum are by far the most popular Gears 1 maps left over and I would think are most likely to make the cut.

Why on Earth did they bother porting over Tyro instead of those two?

David Hinkle @ Mar 24th 2009 11:33PM

Nobody loves Escalation as much as I do :(

Conroi @ Mar 24th 2009 3:16PM

I did not enjoy GoW2 - I played it for a good hour and gave up. It just didn't feel right to me...I guess I'll pick it up again on eBay or something.

BUGz @ Mar 24th 2009 3:26PM

its not a map pack its a single player add on epic mar rein confirmed it over at the forums!

CannabisPrime @ Mar 24th 2009 4:15PM

Too bad it's already been translated numerous times to read "Map Pack", eh?

Sylvanus @ Mar 24th 2009 3:40PM

whoa, if this is single player, that would be amazing!

Sylvanus @ Mar 24th 2009 3:57PM

dang, now people in the forum are saying they think it's maps as well. that sucks

BUGz @ Mar 24th 2009 4:16PM

yeah mark rein posted saying it was a a campaing add-on

Jarvis Slacks @ Mar 24th 2009 4:45PM

I'm not buying anything until they do a major update to Horde. New Horde-modes, new dudes, new something. This is retarded.

Janko @ Mar 24th 2009 6:29PM

My goodness ... the games of avtoportal

Janko @ Mar 24th 2009 6:33PM

Games at ... http://www.infoslo.com/igre123.html

Heimbachae @ Mar 24th 2009 8:54PM

TERRIBLE UPDATE EPIC, WAY TO F UP ONCE MORE. game is on the shelf until next update. i don't want to PAUSE for a second when i get out of a roadie run, is that REEEEEALLY how people do it? come on epic wtf.

forestofdeath @ Mar 24th 2009 10:33PM

EPIC, stop it. no matter how often you try and force feed me GeOW 2, i won't bite.

zackery @ Mar 26th 2009 1:57AM

The new Gears ranking system is going to ruin this game because it will take away everything that matters in the game and ruin online play.

Please read this

"Gears of War 2 New ranking system and why it fails"

http://www.thisisawebsite.info/2009/03/25/gears-of-war-2-new-ranking-system-and-why-it-fails/

Brad.Gow @ May 9th 2009 1:32PM

there is going to be new maps achievments and a new chapter in campaign that sees marcus return to locust hollow and introduces an all new stealth mode.

cant wait ..

add me on Xbox live x X BR4D X x

and we shall play gears 1 or 2 its up to you :D