Xbox Games Showcase Followed by the Gears of War: E-Day Direct Airs June 7
You held the line, now get ready to lock in. Join us on June 7 at 10am PT at the Xbox Games Showcase for the Worldwide Reveal of Gears of War: E-Day , then stick around for the Gears of War: E-Day Direct immediately following the show for a deeper look into the brutality and horror of Emergence Day. Learn more here
Hello everyone! Another This Week in Gears awaits us, our first since Operation 8! Versus Event: Vampiric FFA For this week, we'll be activating Vampiric FFA! This event is all about 14-player Free for All with one mutator active. · Vampire: You only heal when dealing damage, this presents the opportunity to go on an absolute rampage if you keep winning your fights. Note : For this event, the T…
Hello everyone! Operation 8 Drop 1 arrives tomorrow! If you want more details on this drop, you can find our Reveal News post here! Now, let's see what lies ahead! Versus Event: New Map Rumble To kick off Operation 8 – Drop 1 we are creating a special playlist that will allow you to play on our newly released maps, Tomb, Ephyra, and Ritual. You can expect to play Control and Capture the Flag, a…
Hello everyone! The time has come to talk about Operation 8! This post will cover everything you can expect to see when the operation goes live on Tuesday, August 3rd. Trailer Before you dive into the full post, check out the Operation 8 trailer! Characters Bernadette Mataki Sergeant Bernadette "Bernie" Mataki is a legendary sharpshooter who fought for the COG in the Pendulum and Locust Wars. W…
Hello everyone! A new week, and with it comes another This Week in Gears! Versus Event: Freeze Dodgeball Our final event for Operation 7, lasting two weeks, Freeze Dodgeball is a variant of the classic Dodgeball game mode. All damage dealt will freeze, and each kill brings back a dead teammate. Respawns in this mode are extra fast. Medal NameDescriptionStars Stone Cold Killer Get 50 Elimination…
Hello everyone! Another This Week in Gears awaits! Versus Event: Torque Bow Tag Nothing fancy here… Torque Bow Tag returns for a special Versus event playlist! There are no mutators, no bots and this game mode is all down to your skill with a Torque Bow. Like the childhood game just with less touching (no melee) and a little more on the line…like instead of being "it" you blow up. Torque Bow Ta…
Hello everyone! It's time, once more for another This Week in Gears fresh off the back of Operation 7 – Drop 2! Versus Event: Mercy 1 v 1 A throwback to Gears 3, this Versus Event is all about you versus another player. Set on the 2 v 2 Mercy map, this throws you into the Mercy Church to try and secure the victory. Oh, and of course the Gears 3 filter is enabled for this. A special medal group…
Hello everyone! The time has come to talk about Operation 7 – Drop 2! This post will cover everything you can expect to see when the operation goes live on Tuesday, June 29. Trailer Before you dive into the full post, check out the Operation 7 – Drop 2 trailer! Characters Jasi Tak Jasi Tak is an expert pilot whose laid-back attitude belies a fearless spirit. When Colonel Hoffman requested Tak's…
Hello everyone! It's time, once more for another This Week in Gears! Versus Event: Vampiric FFA Our run of mutator-based events resumes with a two-week special event which runs up all the way until the end of Operation 7 – Drop 1! This event is all about 14-player Free for All with two mutators active. · Vampire: All damage provided heals you, this presents the opportunity to go on an absolute…
Hello everyone! It's time for another This Week in Gears! Versus Event: Control SSG A new event in this Operation, this is all focused-on Control, with the following loadout in play. Shotgun, Snub, Grenades (SSG). We very much look forward to seeing how these matches go as we know that dedicated communities have run their own matches with these settings. This event will run for one week . Featu…
Hello everyone! With Operation 7 well under way we're back with another This Week in Gears. Versus Event: Golden Gun with mutators! Golden Gun is a team-based event where you are given one gun, your Golden Gun, you can only blind fire it, should you hit an enemy you'll instantly kill them! Miss… and you'll have to deal with an extremely long reload time so make your shots count! This isn't your…
Hello everyone! Operation 7 lands tomorrow! If you haven't already, check out our deep dive on Operation 7 . Now, let us see what we will be playing. Versus Event: OSOK – Exploding Headshots Not just any OSOK event, with the latest updates allowing us to use mutators in PvP for OP7, we are bringing to you OSOK with exploding headshots and a Movie Poster filter. Feel like an action star in this…
Hello everyone! The time has come to talk about Operation 7! This post will cover everything you can expect to see when the operation goes live on Tuesday, May 18. Trailer Before you dive into the full post, check out the Operation 7 trailer! Characters Hana Cole Holding advanced degrees in biochemistry, toxicology and chemistry, Hana Cole is a gifted scientist who takes an unconventional appro…
At The Coalition, we pride ourselves on delivering the best possible Gears of War games and the best possible game performance using cutting-edge tools like Unreal Engine. We wanted to update our fans on both of those things. Thank you to all the fans out there who have been on this journey with us. During a worldwide pandemic and working from home, the team launched a first strategy title, Gea…
Hello everyone, Operation 6 Drop 2 is now live! Operation 6 Drop 2 Jump into Gears 5 now and honor the heroes of Gears in the latest update. In case you missed last week's posts, we outlined the main changes and updates coming to Operation 6 Drop 2. Check them out below: · Operation 6 Drop 2 – Reveal · Operation 6 Drop 2 – TWIG Operation 7! While this is the last major update for Operation 6, w…
Hello everyone! It's time for our special drop 2 This Week in Gears! Versus Event: Execution 2.0 A new variant of the classic Execution game mode, Execution 2.0 adds an objective ring after 2 minutes to decrease stalemates. If a team captures the ring or eliminates the enemy team, they win the round! This Versus weekly event will run for two weeks and alongside a special medal group. · Well don…
Hello everyone! The time has come to talk to you about the second drop in Operation 6. This post will cover everything you can expect to see when Drop 2 releases on Tuesday, April 13th. Trailer Before you dive into the full post below, watch our special Drop 2 trailer! OP6-D2 trailer! Characters Chairman Prescott Richard Prescott served as Chairman of the COG through most of the Locust War. Inf…
Hello everyone! It's a very exciting week here at TC, so let's dive right in! Versus Event: Bunny Hunt Bunny Hunt continues this week! A reminder, as a variant of Guardian, you'll spawn in with Longshots and will have one objective, kill the enemy bunny leader! To celebrate this event, we have a special Medal group you can complete, which will grant you an appropriately themed Easter skin, the…
Hello everyone! New week, new this week in Gears, let's get going! Versus Event: Bunny Hunt With Easter being very close, we have a special Versus event for you, Bunny Hunt. A variant of Guardian, You'll spawn in with Longshots and will have one objective, kill the enemy bunny leader! To celebrate this event, we have a special Medal group you can complete, which will grant you an appropriately…
Hello everyone! A new week means we have a new This Week in Gears! Versus Event: Hyper Dodgeball Hyper Dodgeball returns! Eliminate the opposing team to win. Every kill brings back a dead teammate. Remember as its hyper that means respawn times are 2 seconds, so expect fast and frenetic action with each respawn in the mode! To celebrate this event, we have a special Medal group you can complete…
Hello everyone! It's time for another edition of This Week in Gears! Versus Event: Luck of the Draw It's a special time in Ireland as St Patrick's Day is this Wednesday! To celebrate we'll be hosting a special Arms Race Luck of the Draw event in-game! In this mode you'll have to kill the enemy using almost every gun in Gears, every three kills will change your team's weapons to a random gun in…
Hello everyone! It's time for another edition of This Week in Gears, our first one a week after the launch of Operation 6! Tour of Duty – Boost Before we dive into this week, we wanted to talk about the issue last week that recently resulted in an issue where boost wasn't granting double stars upon completing your daily challenges. We deployed a fix for the issue at the end of last week, and we…
Hello everyone, Operation 6 is now live! Operation 6 Jump into Gears 5 now and honor the heroes of Gears in the new update. In case you missed last week's posts, we outlined the main changes and updates coming to Operation 6. Check them out below: · Operation 6: Reveal & Timing changes · Operation 6: PvE & PvP · Operation 6: TWIG Upcoming Character skins With the store updating each week throug…
Hello everyone! We're less than 24 hours away from the launch of Operation 6 and have some added details coming your way. Operation 6 Trailer Drops Today Watch the trailer now ! Versus: Control Control is based on King of the Hill but with some changes, while the main objective will be to capture an objective area, you will be required to stay inside the area to score points for your team, addi…
Starting on March 2, Operation 6 will introduce some fresh multiplayer variants and we're excited to share those with you today! Versus: Control With PvP, we are going to be introducing a new featured Versus game mode to kick off Operation 6, we are calling this mode Control . Control is a new spin on classic ring-based modes but with some changes. The main goal is to capture a large objective…
Hello everyone! The time has arrived to start talking about Operation 6! Two Drops per Operation Based on feedback from the community, we spent the holiday period reorganizing planned Operations to give you more content more often. This change will see the length of our operations shortened from 16 weeks to 11 weeks . Additionally, we know that you've all loved us releasing mid-operation conten…
Hello everyone! With a new week comes another This Week in Gears! We know last week was a little rough – a reminder that we have a post about the Re-ups here . Versus Event: Arms Race Take down your opponent with every gun. Completing three kills changes your team's weapon. Get three kills with the final weapon to finish the match and defeat your enemies. Hope you know how to handle the big gun…
Hello everyone, Yesterday we released our re-up update across Gears 5 . When we released the update, we split it into two parts: · Part 1 was to update everyone's accounts to the correct re-up and level, as well as introduce the new re-up xp requirements per level. · Part 2 would then provide the retroactive awards for re-ups you'd gained previously. As we started on part 2, we ran into a servi…
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