And the information just pours in.. Barely hours after the E3 announcement that Gears of War will be coming to the PC this September, Microsoft has gone all out to promote the game with a slew of new details. Here’s all the official information straight from the horse’s mouth. Yes, you heard right, I said DirectX 10! So you can bet your bottom that the PC version will stomp all over the Xbox 360 when it comes to visuals, and thanks to the new content, even Xbox 360 owners who were simply looking at a better looking port job with Lost Planet last month now have a reason to pick this up for their PCs as well.

Check out more features, the first PC screenshots, the PC video and the larger box shot after the jump.

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At the E3 Conference being held by Microsoft right now, MS’ Shane Kim has just confirmed that Gears of War will indeed be coming for the PC, as will the cutesy sandbox game Viva Pinata. Gears of War head honcho CliffyB is demoing the game right now and the game is said to have five new chapters for people to play with, including new boss fights. So that explains the Brumak fight in the leaked video.

On a good note though, the game will come out for the PC “this holiday season” and will feature co-op using the new Games For Windows Live service. And thankfully, this will NOT require you to upgrade to Windows Vista to play it. Whee, what fun! Finally, someone at MS realized thrusting Vista down everyone’s throat isn’t such a good idea.

Great, bring out the big guns coz we will be taking the Brumak down soon this year!

Gears of War for the Xbox 360 has garnered its fair share of attention (not to mention tonnes of awards, rabid fans and followers, and oodles of moolah for Epic Megagames), but then so did Halo for the Xbox. What’s the relation? Only the fact that the big-daddies of action gaming were slated to be made into motion pictures. Fresh from the moving tale of a giant CG ape falling for a woman (and vice versa…take that Bollywood!), Peter Jackson was to be the Executive Producer for the massive project, which has unfortunately entered into production limbo. However, Gears is still charging forth, like an over-adrenalized COG soldier through a horde of Drones. While a release date still hasn’t been announced, the folks over at LatinoReview.com claim to have gotten their hands on the script for the Newline Cinemas release. Aware that most people who’d wanna see the movie would be tempted to spoil themselves silly, only a third of the total script (the treatment weighing in at a total of 22 pages) is provided.

Written by Stuart Beattie (Collateral, Pirates of the Carribean: At World’s End) the flick doesn’t simply restrict itself to the Locust Wars– it also showcases a fair bit of history surrounding the Pendulum Wars, along with Marcus’s early relationship with his father, Adam Fenix. Also, much like the videogame it’s based off of, Gears of War The Movie will feature an awesome amount of headshots, carnage, bloodshed and tough-talking in between bouts of war ranting and displays of human emotion. Those who wish to check out the script treatment can click here.

(Source: Gamespot)