Epic's dude-bro-in-chief, Cliff Bleszinski announced the good news a few hours ago via
Twitter (Yes, a few hours ago, I don't spend all my time on Twitter, ok?):
Gears of War 3 has gone gold. It's finished. Done. Assuming the world doesn't end or the economy doesn't collapse (both of those are totally possible, btw) ,
Gears of War 3 will hit its scheduled release date of September 20th, so get your pre-orders in, schedule a lobotomy that day so you can take off work, sell the kids on Ebay, or whatever you have to do to unburden yourself in preparation.
In the meantime, go
here,
here,
here,
here, and
here to see what we've been saying about
Gears of War 3 this summer.