Microsoft should decide whether to call the IP Gears or Gears of War…

That was our first thought: after Gears of War 4, the fifth installment came as Gears 5 (and there was the Gears Tactics spinoff and the mobile RTS Gears Pop), so it’s somewhat surprising that The Coalition (the IP’s developers) and Microsoft have teamed up with Steamforgd Games to create a tabletop card game set in the Gears of War universe, and it won’t just be called Gears. Sounds confusing, doesn’t it?

Steamforged is already well-versed in how to turn video game IPs into card games, having previously created Dark Souls: The Roleplaying Game and Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game. On Twitter, they announced that Gears of War: The Card Game will be released later this year. Unfortunately, we don’t know what the rules will be, and pricing is not yet known, but it seems that Microsoft has put the right people in charge of the franchise’s new medium. (For the movie adaptation, we reported last year that wrestler Dave Bautista was keen to play Marcus Fenix… and that would be a good match indeed!)

With an announcement in November that an animated series and a live-action movie are in the works for Gears of War, The Coalition might slowly reveal the sixth main episode, as the studio already stated in a blog post in 2021 that future projects will use Unreal Engine 5. In two years, they’ve already learned the ins and outs of Epic Games’ technology.

Gears of War has seen better days (especially the first three episodes, which were mainstream; after the first episode was released on PC with a slight delay and then became Xbox 360-exclusive), and let’s hope Microsoft can shake up the series.

Source: GameRant