{"id":629159,"date":"2026-06-09T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629159\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:20:10","slug":"official-gears-of-war-e-day-video-gets-taken-down-for-including-a-ps5-logo-adding-more-fuel-to-the-last-minute-change-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629159\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Gears of War: E-Day video gets taken down for including a PS5 logo, adding more fuel to the last-minute change theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been an eventful few days for Xbox. Gears of War: E-Day<\/a> was officially confirmed during the Xbox Games Showcase to be a console exclusive<\/a>, hours after a PEGI rating for the PS5 version surfaced<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The declaration, which Xbox had to further clarify in post-show interviews<\/a>, came after reports earlier that day suggested that platform leadership had made a last-minute decision to cancel the game for PS5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But just as we thought the whole debacle had reached its natural conclusion, along comes a new piece of evidence to reignite the chatter all over again.<\/p>\n

Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

One day after the big Gears of War: E-Day blowout, a new episode of the Official Xbox Podcast was uploaded to the platform’s official channel on YouTube. The episode offers a deep dive into the upcoming game<\/a>, featuring members of the development team. Quickly after it went live, however, the video was made private<\/a> for the exact reason you might assume. That fumble was spotted by Resetera user Jessie.Bristol<\/a>, who grabbed a screenshot from about halfway through the video showing the E-Day cover art with a PS5 logo.<\/p>\n

The discovery added more fuel to the fire, lending credence to the reports that said the decision to lock E-Day to Xbox was made very recently, close enough to the Xbox Showcase that the team didn’t have time to change official materials to remove references to the PS5.<\/p>\n

Xbox, however, has a way of explaining this. Aaron Greenberg, vice president of marketing at Xbox, chimed in on X to clarify that it was not a last-minute decision<\/a>, it was simply one that only a few people within Xbox knew about.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: Xbox, Jessie.Bristol.<\/p>\n

“I can confirm this is not true. We just limited the knowledge of this news to a very small internal group,” Greenberg said in an X reply<\/a>. “Intention was to share this news first with our players and everyone watching the showcase.”<\/p>\n

If you’re curious when the decision was actually made, Greenberg revealed that he was “made aware of these exclusives” about a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hopefully that will be the last we hear of this silly little saga forever. In case you missed it, inXile’s Clockwork Revolution<\/a> is the other previously-thought-to-be-multiplatform game that will now be an Xbox console exclusive.<\/p>\n

Gears of War: E-Day arrives 6th October for PC, and Xbox Series X\/S. Clockwork Revolution has a nebulous 2027 release target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s been an eventful few days for Xbox. Gears of War: E-Day was officially confirmed during the Xbox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-629159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629159","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=629159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}