Microsoft says the Gears of War 4 studio's sticking with the series, but this leak says otherwise

Old Marcus Fenix from Gears of War 4.

It sounds like something is stirring within the halls of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gears of War 4 developer The Coalition. Though the studio itself has been more or less silent on its future beyond the latest Gears game, an associated company proudly - yet briefly - proclaimed that it was working with The Coalition on an unspecified new intellectual property "currently in production 2017". That page was pulled offline earlier today, but you✤ can still see it thanks to the .

I found that announcement very odd, since (as far as I knew) The Coalition was a 100-percent Gears of War focused studio. The studio jumping over to a new IP would be like 343 Industries announcing that Halo 6 was on hold so it could make a new fishing game or something. Very weird. When I asked a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft representative about StoryLab's announcement, they re-c💟onfirmed that "The Coalition is exclusively focuse🍸d on Gears of War" but left it at that.

The page from StoryLab's site, saying it's working on a new IP with The Coalition.

So what does all of this actually mean? I can only speculate for now. I don't think StoryLab (an Official Microsoft Vendor, as the site proclaim🎃s) would fabricate an upcoming collaboration with one of its biggest partners. But its definition of "new IP" might be loose in this instance. Rather than an all-new creation, maybe this announcement entails a new take on the Gears of War universe?

Gears of War 4 was well-received overall but never had the same impact as the Gears trilogy before it. There's no way Microsoft is ready to give up on the series yet - not after buying the license from original developer Epic and re-orienting an entire studio around it - so maybe it's looking for a different kind of Gears instead. Probably with lots of shoulder-high cover scattered around, though, because is it re🐻ally still Gears without that?

It may be a while before we see what, if anything, comes from this alleged new project. At least you can look forward to some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best upcoming games of 2018 in the meantime. 

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