For the past couple of years, we’ve seen Xbox enhancing its first-party studios through acquiring a number of major studios such as Ninja Theory and Bethesda/Zenimax. However, the company has also created what it calls a “AAAA” studio known as The Initiative that has been confirmed to be working on a reboot of Perfect Dark.
Gears of War
The roots between WWE and the Gears of War team appears to run deep. Last year, the team added Dave Batista as a skin in Gears 5. Now, Big Dave isn’t an active WWE Superstar, spending more of his time yacking it up with that crew that guards the universe or whatever. However, the newest
After a short break due to a wild summer of video games so far, we’re back with our next iteration of our ongoing “Making a Video Game Hero” series. Thus far, we’ve tackled the Action-Adventure, Platformer, and Sports genres. Today, we dip our toes into the shooter side of things. Now, usually these experiments have
While last fall saw the release of Gears 5, the next mainline chapter of the series, Gears Tactics has released several months later with an entirely different take on the franchise. While traditionally Gears of War has always been about third-person shooting (and Funko Pops), Gears Tactics instead brings the series into the style of
The lineup of big releases for this spring has spread through a lot of different genres, from intense action games like Resident Evil 3 and Half-Life: Alyx, to platformers like Ori and the Will of the Wisps, to sprawling RPGs like Final Fantasy VII Remake and Persona 5 Royal. However, this week seems to be the time for strategy
In the last few weeks before I started up Gears Tactics to review, I had played through Gears 5 since I hadn’t quite gotten to it when it released last fall. Since it’s been some time since playing Gears of War 4, I felt familiarizing myself with the gameplay elements of Gears again would be
In a recent Polygon article, Splash Damage, the team behind Gears Tactics, gave some cool insight into how the turn-based strategy game came to be. In working with Tyler Bielman from The Coalition, the team was able to put together a rough board game design and work from there. Of course, this isn’t an incredibly
The Coalition and Splash Damage are collaborating to tell a new story within the beloved Gears of War universe. Gears Tactics is a turn-based strategy game and a prequel to the main franchise. Starring Gabe Diaz, the father of Gears 5 protagonist Kait Diaz, you will control his squad as you hunt down Locust leader
Gears Tactics, the very first Gears game featuring turn-based strategy gameplay, is just around the corner and Microsoft has summarized the upcoming experience in a new trailer. Originally revealed during E3 2018, Gears Tactics will finally make its way to Steam and Microsoft Store later this month. Known as the first Gears of War spin-off
I always thought that the addition of Batista to Gears 5 was a little out of the ordinary. While yes, he has been an advocate to play Marcus Fenix in the potential movie adaption of the series. However, there wasn’t really any connection to the game rather than that. To top that off, I always
More and more developers are bringing their titles to the PC marketplace. Halo and Gears of War are finally available on Steam, and even Spyro has made the move over to PC with the Spyro Reignited Trilogy. That’s Sony and Microsoft accounted for, but what about Nintendo? If you want to play a Fire Emblem title on PC, for example, chances are it’ll
Following yesterday’s news that The Coalition studio head Rod Fergusson would be leaving the developer to go to Blizzard, another prominent figure associated with the Gears of War franchise has offered to make his own knowledge of the series available to Microsoft, if they so desire. Over on Twitter recently, Cliff Bleszinski, the lead designer of
Having worked on every entry in the history of the Gears of War franchise, The Coalition’s studio head Rod Fergusson today announced that he is leaving the developer to begin a new venture elsewhere. Fergusson made the surprising announcement over on Twitter this afternoon where he revealed that his time with The Coalition has now come to
If you’re looking forward to the upcoming Microsoft titles Gears Tactics or Ori and the Will of the Wisps then you can prepare for their release right now by pre-installing them on Xbox One and PC. Today, Xbox posted on the official Twitter account for PC Game Pass that Tactics is available to download for the preparation of
Originally revealed last year, the upcoming Gears Pop! condenses the intense action and thrills of the Gears series into a far cuter, mobile-sized package, and now it appears that you’ll soon get to experience it for yourself. During Microsoft’s E3 2019 press conference, a new trailer for Gears Pop! was shown to give a look at the charming
Microsoft and Universal’s Gears of War movie has been in development since 2016, but like several video game film adaptations, not much has been heard about it since its initial announcement. That being said, The Wrap learned today that the Gears of War movie has received a brand new writer: F. Scott Frazier. While F.
Monster Hunter: World has easily been one of the most popular games of 2018 so far, and Capcom has been fantastic with dealing out new content regularly since release. According to one noteworthy developer though, there’s one new monstrous addition that he’d soon love to see in the monster hunting title. Earlier today, The Coalition’s Rod Fergusson,