Gears of War 2 Update coming soon!!!

Mark Rein of Epic posted a blog about an upcoming Gears of War 2 update. Sounds like it fixes exploits and bugs but also adds new achievements. What is interesting to me is added achievements. I thought that a game was only allowed 1000 points of achievements. This got me to Google it up and I found from a Wiki (don't you love Wikis?):

On February 1, 2007, Microsoft announced on their Gamerscore Blog some new policies that developers must follow related to Gamerscore and Achievements in future releases.^[19] All games must have 1,000 Gamerscore points in the base game - the title can ship with fewer than 1,000 points, but anything added later must be free. Game developers also now have the option of adding up to 250 points via downloadable content (for a total of 1,250 points) - this content can be either free or paid. Xbox Live Arcade titles may add up to 50 points via downloadable content (for a total of 250 points). In special cases, Microsoft has allowed games to exceed this Gamerscore limit, with Halo 3 having a total of 1750 achievments points.

Well, I was proved wrong. Anywho, lets get back to the meat of this post. Here is part of Mark Reins' blog:

As I mentioned before the break we’ve been working on a major title update for Gears of War 2. This update will address bugs and exploits as well as add some new achievements related to downloadable content. We don’t have an exact date for it but all indicators are it will go live within January. If that changes we’ll let you know.

Full blog is here.

Joe