{"id":628457,"date":"2026-06-09T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T01:43:09","slug":"whoops-xbox-accidentally-uploads-gears-of-war-ps5-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/628457\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoops! Xbox Accidentally Uploads Gears of War PS5 Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"You<\/a><\/p>\n

Update [Mon 8th Jun 2026, 12:30am]:<\/p>\n

Following the accidental emergence of a trailer confirming Gears of War: E-Day<\/a> was planned for the PS5, Xbox marketing bigwig Aaron Greenberg has claimed the cancellation of the release was not a last minute decision.<\/p>\n

Responding to The Verge<\/a> journalist Tom Warren, he said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm this is not true [that the port was cancelled last minute]. We just limited the knowledge of this news to a very small internal group. Intention was to share this news first with our players and everyone watching showcase.\u201d<\/p>\n

So they spent years making the game, cut the trailer, submitted the release to PEGI, and notified retailers just to maintain the element of surprise? Right.<\/p>\n

Hey Tom, I can confirm this is not true. We just limited the knowledge of this news to a very small internal group. Intention was to share this news first with our players and everyone watching showcase.\u2014 Aaron Greenberg (@aarongreenberg) June 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Original Story: We now have definitive proof that the PS5 version of Gears of War: E-Day<\/a> was cancelled last minute before the Xbox Showcase<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n

In a delisted Xbox Podcast<\/a> video, spotted by fans on ResetEra<\/a> before it was removed, Microsoft has accidentally uploaded a video clip clearly showing a PS5 logo at the end of the third-person shooter\u2019s trailer.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not a huge surprise in hindsight \u2013 journalist Jeff Grubb had reported there\u2019s an almost complete version of the port<\/a> sitting on a hard drive somewhere \u2013 this shows just how unbelievably reactionary Microsoft is acting here.<\/p>\n

In his post-show interview, boss Matt Booty failed to really explain Xbox\u2019s approach to exclusivity<\/a>, and when faced with tough questions earlier in the day, Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Ball dropped a \u201cno comment<\/a>\u201d on the situation.<\/p>\n

Now we know The Coalition had cut and submitted a Gears of War: E-Day trailer with a PS5 logo in it; the game was rated for release on Sony\u2019s system by PEGI<\/a> and physical listings were rattling around on retailer databases<\/a> up until yesterday.<\/p>\n

You really couldn\u2019t make any of this up, could you?<\/p>\n

[source youtube.com<\/a>, via resetera.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

\"Sammy<\/p>\n

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He\u2019s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update [Mon 8th Jun 2026, 12:30am]: Following the accidental emergence of a trailer confirming Gears of War: E-Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,16348,112,86,56,54,55,10935],"class_list":["post-628457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-gears-of-war","tag-ps5","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xbox-game-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}