If you happen to had been tuning into Xbox Games Showcase 2025 hoping to see Gears of Battle: E-Day, you will have been left dissatisfied. At the moment’s present was mild on Microsoft’s greatest franchises — with nothing from Forza, Halo or the upcoming Fable reboot.
As a substitute, Xbox boss Phil Spencer promised that 2026 can be the 12 months Gears of Battle: E-Day arrives, alongside the subsequent Forza sport, because the Xbox model celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary.
The subsequent chapter in Xbox’s veteran Gears of Battle collection was formally introduced a 12 months in the past, at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024. E-Day shall be a prequel set 14 years earlier than the unique Gears of Battle sport, and an origin story for traditional heroes Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago, voiced as soon as once more by John DiMiaggio and Carlos Ferro.
“Gears of Battle: E-Day is not only our subsequent main sport; it is a return to what makes Gears of Battle video games particular and genuine,” Coalition studio boss Mike Crump mentioned beforehand. Earlier this 12 months, Bulletstorm and Gears of Battle: Judgment studio Individuals Can Fly was introduced as a co-developer on E-Day, alongside Xbox’s personal studio The Coalition.
Till subsequent 12 months, followers have Gears of Battle: Reloaded, a remake of the collection’ unique title, to sit up for, which launches for PC, Xbox Sequence X/S — and, for the primary time, PlayStation 5 — on August 26.
At the moment’s Xbox Games Showcase additionally featured a tease by Phil Spencer of a long-awaited return for Halo, with probably a remaster of the collection’ unique title. For extra, try the whole lot introduced at Xbox Games Showcase June 2025.
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