Gears of War auto-update is now available: thus, just switch on your consoles, put into the player the correct game DVD and wait for the update to be downloaded. What for?

Well, first of all there is the new Annex mode, a sort of "control the territory" mode in which gamers seize victory by keeping control over key map locations, or objectives, long enough to collect a winning number of points.

As Major Nelson has explained us, "Every map contains two to five identified objectives available for capture, with one objective active at a time. Objectives are based on map weapon-spawn locations and have a potential value of 60 points toward either team's score. Teams collect those points by maintaining ownership of an objective until all 60 points have been distributed. Every second that a team controls an objective, the team gets one point. When an objective falls to zero points, the next objective is selected at random."

Seems difficult to understand? Maybe the following video can be of help:

Gears of War - Annex Mode

However, the Annex mode is not the only reason the auto-update should be downloaded. Hereafter all the other minor adjustments to "Gears of War":

• VGA Cable Support: Monitor resolution widths greater than or equal to 1280 now render as letterbox. In particular VGA users running at 1280x1024 will now see the game in full 720p (1280x720) resolution in letterboxed form.
• Adjusted Assassination Multiplayer Gametype: Leader no longer has to unlock weapons and now has to be executed to die.
• Adjusted Boomshot: Splash damage to be more effective rendering targets down-but-not-out
• Adjusted Hammer of Dawn: Aiming will be more forgiving of moving targets
• Adjusted Roadie Run: Reduced frequency of accidently grabbing cover while running
• Kill Message Ticker: Ticker can now be seen while down-but-not-out and spectating
• General: Addressed a number of possible exploits in multiplayer

And now... let's restart the war...