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Gears 6 won’t be announced “for some time”
If you’re eager to find out what happens next with JD, Del, Marcus, and Kait, we have good news and bad news. The good news is that Gears of War developer The Coalition is switching over to Unreal Engine 5, meaning the next Gears game is going to look even prettier than Gears 5 does. The bad news is also that Gears of War developer The Coalition is switching over to Unreal Engine 5 – because that means we’ve got a while to wait before we hear anything about Gears 6.
Following on the release of strategy game Gears Tactics and the Xbox Series X|S launch of Gears 5, The Coalition says it’s looking to capitalise on the advanced hardware now available. “As we look to future games, we’re excited to start shifting our resources to next-gen development using Unreal Engine 5,” the studio writes in an update posted today. “Gears of War has always been at the front of Unreal Engine development … and we’re excited to continue
Gear of War is one of the most important titles of the Unreal Engine’s longstanding history as a graphics engine. With it, Gears ushered in a spectacle like we had never seen before back on the Xbox 360 and gave us a battle that has continued to provide some of the immense moments in gaming over the years. With Unreal Engine 5 coming up around the corner, it only makes sense that Gears studio The Coalition would want to put the franchise at the forefront of it. With that in mind, The Coalition announced that outside of further content for Gears 5, it’s shifting development of new titles to Unreal Engine 5 and the Xbox Series X.