Rod Fergusson has announced on Twitter that he’s leaving The Coalition. Fergusson helped spawn the current iteration of The Coalition in 2014 when he was brought꧂ on to lead the continuation of the Gears of War franchise. 

Since then, he’s overseen two mainline Gears games, the 2016 soft reboot 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gears of War 4 and last fall’s semi-open-world Gears 5. Fergusson revealed his future plans, saying he’s joining Blizzard to oversee 𒈔the Diablo franchise. In a farewell tweet, he said his departure “is bittersweet as I lo🅰ve our Gears family, the fans, and everyone at The Coalition and Xbox. Thank you, it has been an honor and a privilege to work with you all.” 

Fergusson waxed nostalgic for his decade and a half of working on Gears, but added: “it’s time for a new adventure.” 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft has not yet a♉nnounced who will step into Fergusson’s place as the new studio head. 

In addition to the mainline entries,  The Coalition also helped with the development of Gears Pop, a mobile spinoff made in the image of the popular vinyl toys from Funko. In April, the studi♔o will launch Gears Tactics, a strategy title set in the Gears universe, for Xbox One and PC.

The Coalition was re-founded as a studio focused entirely on Gears i𒈔n 2014 when Microsoft renamed and re-purposed the short-lived Black Tusk Studios, which was once known as Zipline Studios in 2011, before briefly becoming Microsoft Studio♏s Vancouver. It’s gone through several makeovers and should survive this one too, though as one of the leading minds behind Gears departs for a new adventure, it’ll be interesting to see what the next Gears looks like in his absence.

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