If you listen carefully, you can hear the screams of people from all over the country as they take chainsaw bayonets to the jugular. Or is that the screech of the chainsaw on bone? Yes, it’s probably that as I imagine it’d be hard to scream once your windpipe has been severed. Also: gross.

Xbox South Africa recently held a Halo 4 tournament which went down a treat with local gamers. Now they’re back with a super-manly Gears of War: Judgment tournament to counteract all of that overtly colourful Halo rubbish. We’re kidding – we love us some Master Chief as well, but Gears has been rammed down our throats largely thanks to Tarryn’s overt fanaticism and her insistence on how much fun it is to allow her to slaughter us all online. She’s very persuasive. And a little scary.

We received a press release informing us that anyone who wants to take part in this Gears of War: Judgment tournament can head over to this website to register. You have to be 18 or older, live in South Africa, be in ownership of a copy of Gears of War: Judgment, and have a valid Xbox LIVE Gold membership. If you can tick off all of those requirements, then you can enter either the Clan tournament or the Lone Wolf tournament. Did we mention there are awesome prizes up for grabs?

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Sticky grenades, people. This is stop-the-presses stuff. STOP THE PRESSES: STICKY GRENADES. See? Exactly. It almost makes up for the misspelling of “judgment”. Almost.

Oh yes, and here’s the relevant trailer:

Many of Microsoft’s high profile AAA titles find their way onto torrenting websites way before the game is due to release. This happened most recently to Halo 4, and it resulted in a plethora of spoiler videos hitting the interwebs weeks before the game was due to hit shelves. In 2011, a partially completed but playable build of Gears of War 3 was also leaked online. Both of these situations resulted in Microsoft issuing permanent bans to anyone caught playing the games online prior to street date.

Last night, an “apparently complete version” of Gears of War: Judgment was uploaded to the Internet; a whole month before the game’s 22 March release date. Naturally, Microsoft has unleashed the legal hounds and forensic investigators.

A Microsoft representative has made it clear that this latest leak will be treated like any other: if you’re caught playing the game online, your XBL account and Xbox 360 will be banned from Xbox LIVE forever. “Playing pirated copies of games, such as Gears of War: Judgment, is a violation of the Xbox Live Terms of Use and will result in enforcement action, such as account and console bans.”

Source: Eurogamer