It seems like every time a AAA game announces its release date, everyone rolls their eyes nowadays. Announced earlier today, the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake has been delayed for a second time. Initially set to be released in January of this year, the game was originally delayed to March 18. Today, a tweet
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The holidays are nearly upon us which means that it’s just about that time to begin scrambling to decide what you should be getting for those closest to you. Luckily, if you have any gamers in your life that you’re looking to hook up with a sweet video game this year, we’ve got you covered.
Welcome back to our ongoing Game of the Year 2020 talks! If you didn’t previously hear about our new format in regards to Game of the Year when we launched the series earlier in 2020, essentially, we’re having our conversations about the year’s most prominent releases over the course of the entire year rather than
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
After bringing Nier Automata: Become As Gods Edition to the Xbox Game Pass library, Microsoft now has revealed the other titles that will be available through the service by the end of April. Gears Tactics is probably the most anticipated title of this month for all the Xbox Game Pass subscribers on PC. The game
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
This spring has been a tricky one for the release of new games, with several high-profile releases (including most recently The Last of Us Part II) being delayed in light of the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic has presented. However, one of April’s biggest releases, Gears Tactics, seems to be primed and ready for its debut
It has been quite a long time since we’ve had a new edition of Inside Xbox — there hasn’t been a new episode in all of 2020 — but at long last, Microsoft is bringing back the showcase that’s dedicated to all things Xbox tomorrow. Occurring tomorrow on April 7, Inside Xbox is set 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
The Game Awards were held today, and with it came a plethora of new trailers and game announcements. In case you missed the show or are just looking for a summation of the games present, here is a list of everything shown off at The Game Awards: Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 X-Men DLC Revealed Gambit,
Coming off of this year’s release of Gears 5, the series’ future is looking especially bright and full of possibility. Aside from the mainline installments of the franchise, this also includes several new spin-offs on the horizon, with the upcoming Gears Tactics officially set to debut this spring. During The Game Awards 2019, Microsoft officially confirmed that Gears
After being briefly revealed back at E3 2018, Gears Tactics, the spin-off strategy game set in the Gears universe, hasn’t been seen or heard from whatsoever. At long last though, it seems as though The Coalition and Microsoft are finally ready to break that silence and show more of the game in just a few short
Yesterday, we reported that hardware company Razer had recently listed 9 new titles that would supposedly soon be receiving mouse and keyboard support for the Xbox One platform on its website. The only questionable part of this story was that it wasn’t backed up by a formal announcement from Microsoft and the team at Xbox, which
Late in 2018 at Microsoft’s X018 event live from Mexico City, the initial slate of Xbox One-compatible games that could utilize mouse and keyboard were unveiled with the promise that more titles would be added down the road. Well, now according to hardware manufacturer Razer, it seems like some of the biggest first-party releases–and some
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.
One of the bigger announcements that Microsoft had last week at E3 was the reveal of Gears 5, the next installment in the long-running Gears of War series. As many noticed though, the title was clearly missing the usual “of War” from the title that had been present in every other game in the series up until this