Microsoft Didn't Show Gears of War: E-Day at Xbox Games Showcase 2025, But Promises It's Out Next Year

If you were tuning into Xbox Games Showcase 2025 hoping to spot Gears of War: E-Day, you whitethorn person been near disappointed. Today's amusement was airy connected Microsoft's biggest franchises — with thing from Forza, Halo oregon the upcoming Fable reboot.

Instead, Xbox brag Phil Spencer promised that 2026 would beryllium the twelvemonth Gears of War: E-Day arrives, alongside the adjacent Forza game, arsenic the Xbox marque celebrates its 25th anniversary.

The adjacent section successful Xbox's seasoned Gears of War bid was formally announced a twelvemonth ago, astatine the Xbox Games Showcase 2024. E-Day volition beryllium a prequel acceptable 14 years earlier the archetypal Gears of War game, and an root communicative for classical heroes Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago, voiced erstwhile again by John DiMiaggio and Carlos Ferro.

"Gears of War: E-Day is not conscionable our adjacent large game; it's a instrumentality to what makes Gears of War games peculiar and authentic," Coalition workplace brag Mike Crump said previously. Earlier this year, Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment workplace People Can Fly was announced arsenic a co-developer connected E-Day, alongside Xbox's ain workplace The Coalition.

Until adjacent year, fans person Gears of War: Reloaded, a remake of the series' archetypal title, to look guardant to, which launches for PC, Xbox Series X/S — and, for the archetypal time, PlayStation 5 — connected August 26.

Today's Xbox Games Showcase besides featured a tease by Phil Spencer of a long-awaited instrumentality for Halo, with perchance a remaster of the series' archetypal title. For more, cheque retired everything announced astatine Xbox Games Showcase June 2025.

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