Gears of War 3 Coming 2011

It is now official. The Xbox 360’s most popular shooter series since Halo has a release date penned.

Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski announced on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon that the game is indeed coming and will arrive April 8 2011. He also unveiled the new trailer which showed a female blonde character among other things. During the interview he said there will be new enemies called the “The Lambent” which are weird tentacle-like beings as well a host of new weapons. The release of the game is in April 2011 instead of late 2010 to avoid competition from Microsoft’s other big title, Halo Reach.

You can view the interview at the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon here.