Xbox boss 'hopes to bring' Gears of War to Xbox One

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A key Xbox exec has addressed the future of the Gears of War franchise on Xbox One.

Speaking in an interview with Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, translated by DualShockers, Microsoft's Game Studios VP, Phil Spencer indicated that while the platform holder would like to see Gears return on its next console, the decisions is ultimately up to developer Epic Games.

"Gears of War is developed by Epic Games, and they've been our partners for a long time on Xbox 360," he said. "You should ask Epic Games about what they want to do.

"We haven't announced anything yet about Gears of War, but we hope to bring it to Xbox One in some form. However, there's nothing more I can tell you at this time."

Key members of the Gears of War development team, including series creator and Epic Games design director Cliff Bleszinski, are no longer at the studio. In October 2012, Bleszinski resigned from the Gears of War studio some two decades after joining.

This was followed by Epic Games senior producer Chris Wynn, who left to join BioWare's Mass Effect 4 team.

Gears of War director of production Rod Fergusson left the studio in August 2012.

A number of developers from Epic Games' Poland studio People Can Fly, which developed spin-off Gears of War: Judgment, also departed in October, before the resignation of board member and long-term consultant Mike Capps.

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III_XBOI_IIIPosted:

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platyui If they are going to make a new Gears of War they better make it like GOW 3 because Judgment was the worst GOW so far.


hopefully they will listen to consumer feedback and make it better


Yeah but the gears community is almost as bad as cod's. The devs won't be on the same page and you'll have another gears 2/ gow j catastrophe. All I want is a gears 1 update with dedicated servers and some new maps. All the original maps should stay as they'd just bring them back anyway. Gears 1 w/ updated graphics, dedicated servers, no actives, and a few new maps would suffice for me.

-CPPosted:

I cannot wait for the Xbox ONE GoW!

GaryPosted:

Maybe they will make a game called 'Gears Of War HD', it will have all 3 campaigns and all the multiplayer maps in one game. Now just think of how awesome that would be.

SwiftPosted:

My cousins would love it. One of my cousins could have went pro in the original GOW.

raefonPosted:

Yean kind of could not care, Gears of War has never been a game of choice.

UnevenPosted:

Sorry guys in the name of Polish Developers for making shit games (except The Witcher, that game is amazing) and new GoW will be better than GoW:J if Polish studios are not developing it :D (I am polish myself and I know our studios suck dick) :D

Michael1321Posted:

I have never really been a massive fan of GOW but i might actually start playing it

MYWAMPNOSEPosted:

Gears of wars has started to lose its touch in its later games

MonokumaPosted:

platyui If they are going to make a new Gears of War they better make it like GOW 3 because Judgment was the worst GOW so far.


hopefully they will listen to consumer feedback and make it better

_MarkPosted:

It'll be cool to see them bring back gow on the xbox one.