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Gargantuan Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War 3 launches today, and developer Epic Games has promised to release substantial downloadable content.

Epic will, post launch, be "constantly" working on title updates for the shooter. The team released six for Gears of War 2.

Epic is also working on downloadable content, including new maps and new "co-operative experiences".

In an interview with The Telegraph, Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski confirmed that Gears of War 3 campaign DLC is also planned.

It will not, however, feature series stars Marcus and Dom.

"One thing I can tell you is that you're not going to see Marcus or Dom or Cole in it," he said.

"I believe that DLC should be unique and cool, like Lost and the Damned, Gay Tony, Mad Moxie's Underdome Riot. All those kind of things. DLC's the place where you play and have fun. So that's one thing that's an indication of where things may be going in the future."

Microsoft sells a 2400 Point Gears of War 3 Season Pass, which grants buyers a 33 per cent discount on the first four DLC packs.

Meanwhile, Guy Welch, a Microsoft senior product manager, said he expects more than four million will be playing Gears of War 3 by the end of the week. 75 per cent of those, Microsoft reckons, will play the cooperative and multiplayer modes on Xbox Live.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-20-gears-3-story-map-and-co-op-dlc-planned

wow, so they do expect Halo: Reach launch numbers

You have to take into account the amount of people who don't actually own the game who will be playing it. Rentals, playing at a friends, ect.

ya as already posted by players played they don't mean games sold. For example halo 3 has had 23million unique gamertags play the game and it obviously hasn't sold that much.
http://www.bungie.net/online/default.aspx

im sorry but there is no way gears can get 4m in it's first week! it will take 2/3 weeks for that and not even all of them will be playing online

@ Yo John, no vast amount will have rented the game or lent it to friends in the space of 5 days.
@Enrageorange, again Halo 3 has been out how many years though? Gears will have had about 4/5 days.
@Kowen, that's why it's based on preliminary figures, it counts expectations as well.

I will get dlc. go gears!