Rumor: Gears of War: E-Day Targeting 2025 Release - News

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Microsoft is targeting a 2025 release window for Gears of War: E-Day, according to The Verge who spoke with sources (via Reddit). This was as of a few months ago, however, it isn't known if this is still the case. 

Xbox currently has three first-party games scheduled to release in 2025 - Doom: The Dark Ages, Fable, and South of Midnight.

Gears of War: E-Day is a prequel set during Emergence Day, the first day of the war with the Locust and features original protagonists, Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago.

The last mainline entry in the Gears of War franchise, Gears 5, released for the Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Game Pass in September 2019, and for the Xbox Series X|S in November 2020.

Gears of War: E-Day was announced during the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month for the Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass.

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Azzanation (on 15 June 2024)

2024 stacked, 2025 stacked, 2026 should be stacked.
Perfect Dark ill assume is 2025 also

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shikamaru317 (on 15 June 2024)

Well they have been working on it since 2019 presumably, 2020 at the latest.

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G2ThaUNiT (on 14 June 2024)

That would be a very welcome surprise! I was figuring 2026 to coincide with the franchises 20th anniversary. Jesus, coming up on 20 years already.......

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smroadkill15 G2ThaUNiT (on 14 June 2024)

Maybe have a Gears Collection for 2026. That would be sweet!

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G2ThaUNiT smroadkill15 (on 14 June 2024)

That would be a perfect culmination of the series with this new main entry. There's always been rumors that The Coalition has been working on multiple projects. Something like a Gears Collection, especially if they're remakes, would take a lot longer to make.

All while Gears 6 is no doubt in the pre-production phase and probably will be until E-Day releases

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Moseskyle83 (on 14 June 2024)

Suppose it makes sense as they got the world built already from gears ultimate edition so a lot of time was saved n now we get greatness even sooner

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SecondWar Moseskyle83 (on 14 June 2024)

Gears 1 Ultimate Edition is 8 years old at this point so I doubt they’d use too much of that as a basis for this game.
Same series sure but unlikely they’d just recycle levels from that game.

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G2ThaUNiT SecondWar (on 14 June 2024)

Not to mention this game takes place when civilization on Sera is still there. You could see from the trailer there's still full on cities rather than after a post apocalyptic event.

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Giggity_goo Moseskyle83 (on 15 June 2024)

its using unreal engine 5 will have to be rebuilt from the ground up but i suppose can still use alot of the older code to make it play the same

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G2ThaUNiT Giggity_goo (on 17 June 2024)

Why would they use older code? This is a completely brand new entry to the mainline series. It's not a remaster/remake or a spin-off.

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Leynos (on 14 June 2024)

Give me a disc!

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Pirateogta (on 14 June 2024)

I’ll guess 2027.

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kazuyamishima (on 14 June 2024)

I’ll wait for the complete version on PS5.

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SecondWar kazuyamishima (on 15 June 2024)

Not sure if you’re joking or not.
People were saying this back with the original series when Epic owned the IP, but Gears is one of MS’ tentpole franchises alongside Halo and maybe Forza. If they were to put Gears on PS that would likely signal them becoming a third party publisher and not a console maker.

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V-r0cK SecondWar (on 15 June 2024)

Could be a joke, could also not be.

There are rumors of a Halo remake for PS5. So if that's going around who's to say Gears can't as well. Whatever anybody thinks they know about MS should hold their breath, MS has become unpredictable this gen.

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SecondWar V-r0cK (on 15 June 2024)

If those rumours prove to be true I think that signals MS’s exit from the console market.

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V-r0cK SecondWar (on 15 June 2024)

The way I see it; they have been trying to exit the console market for some time now in their own way. They want everyone to jump onto Game Pass making consoles non existent and beating their competitors.

The latest Xbox Showcase had almost all of the announced games Day 1 on Game Pass making it seem irrelevant to even pick up any of their current/new Xbox Series consoles.

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SecondWar V-r0cK (on 15 June 2024)

Not really. If you’re a console gamer, you still need an Xbox to use Gamepass. Gamepass is what MS main differentiator at present but isn’t itself an indicator that its planning to quit the console market.

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V-r0cK SecondWar (on 15 June 2024)

There were also rumors few years ago that MS was making like a Xbox dongle where it was capable of just using GP and streaming games, like an Amazon Firestick. Or even talks of having Game Pass app preloaded on TVs like Netflix. All of which are more options to eliminate of actually purchasing a console.

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Hardstuck-Platinum kazuyamishima (on 15 June 2024)

I'm glad someone else said it. All those games at the Xbox showcase have a chance at coming to PS5 day one!

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