So I was playing around online just now and was talking to a buddy of mine who lives in canadia(canada for those of you who are actually canadian LOL) and he was telling me that he had a section under his "spotlight" section of the dashboard that said thanks for participating in the Gears 3 beta here are some training missions to partake in to get you ready for the release but when he went to play them and he couldnt. I checked my dashboard and had no such thing. Has anyone else seen this or know anything about it? Was it something that got released to the dashboard before it should have (not saying anything like that WOULD ever happen LOL)
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Gears of War 3 Training Missions
07/08/11 10:19 pm | #1
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Re: Gears of War 3 Training Missions
07/08/11 10:38 pm | #2
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Has anyone else seen this or know anything about it? Was it something that got released to the dashboard before it should have (not saying anything like that WOULD ever happen LOL)
I haven't seen this yet but it does sound like one of those times when something got posted on the dashboard before it was supposed to.
I'm excited now, I'll be anxiously keeping an eye out.
Re: Gears of War 3 Training Missions
07/09/11 1:38 am | #3
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yeah tell me about it....like i know my buddy and I always talk about stuff that is on one of our dashboards that isnt on the others but usually its him being behind on the cool stuff on the dashboard so just thought it was odd that he had something that i didnt
Re: Gears of War 3 Training Missions
07/09/11 2:19 am | #4
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I noticed that on the dashboard today as well. I didnt really look into it that much but it was definitely on my dashboard. And yes Im Canadian 
Re: Gears of War 3 Training Missions
07/09/11 3:41 am | #5
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I haven't seen anything like that on my dashboard. If it was something that slipped out earlier than it was supposed to, it wouldn't be the first time that something Gears 3 related made it onto the dashboard early.
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07/09/11 8:04 pm | #6
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so apparently crawford has confirmed it....looks like it only leaked out on the canadian xboxs....definitely odd
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07/09/11 8:21 pm | #7
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Im going to summarize what it all says here:
First glance at the dashboard tile:
-Gears of War 3
-Play training missions online
-Contest plus pre-order offer
Clicking on that tile to bring up more information:
-Gear up for war tile
-Can't wait for Gears 3?
-Play training missions online
Further into that tile:
Kill time playing online training missions at gearupforwar.ca & win!
The top 5 gamers who complete all 3 missions in the fastest overall time have a chance to win an all expense paid trip to Toronto & will be the first to play Gears of War 3 at an exclusive event!
Preorder the game now and play at gearupforwar.ca
Moving over one tile it shows 3 mission tiles. Mission one is unlocked, mission two will be unlocked on the week of July 18th, and mission three will be unlocked week of August 18th.
Thats basically it, there is also tiles for all the current gears 3 trailers and avatar items / dashboard themes.
Judging by the words an all expense paid trip to Toronto... Im guessing this is for us Canadians only.
EDIT: I went to the site and its only on the computer that you can access these missions.
First glance at the dashboard tile:
-Gears of War 3
-Play training missions online
-Contest plus pre-order offer
Clicking on that tile to bring up more information:
-Gear up for war tile
-Can't wait for Gears 3?
-Play training missions online
Further into that tile:
Kill time playing online training missions at gearupforwar.ca & win!
The top 5 gamers who complete all 3 missions in the fastest overall time have a chance to win an all expense paid trip to Toronto & will be the first to play Gears of War 3 at an exclusive event!
Preorder the game now and play at gearupforwar.ca
Moving over one tile it shows 3 mission tiles. Mission one is unlocked, mission two will be unlocked on the week of July 18th, and mission three will be unlocked week of August 18th.
Thats basically it, there is also tiles for all the current gears 3 trailers and avatar items / dashboard themes.
Judging by the words an all expense paid trip to Toronto... Im guessing this is for us Canadians only.
EDIT: I went to the site and its only on the computer that you can access these missions.
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07/10/11 3:09 am | #8
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Well, that interwebz address confirms that it's for Canadians only. Anything that ends with .ca is a Canadian-specific domain name.
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