Gears of War: E-Day – Development Overview | Xbox Games Showcase 2026. Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Despite this though, newly-appointed CEO Asha Sharma kicked off Sunday’s Xbox Games Showcase<\/a> with the announcement that E-Day would be an Xbox console exclusive on its release this October<\/a>, and Gears of War creator Cliff ‘CliffyB’ Bleszinski believes this is a smart move.<\/p>\n “As much as I’m happy to see Microsoft previously embracing ‘the more the merrier’ [approach], I think it may have hurt their loyal tribal fanbase’s perception of the brand,” Bleszinski told Eurogamer. As a reminder, in August last year, Bleszinski said he was “thrilled” that more people would be able to experience the original Gears game on PlayStation<\/a>, but this was when Phil Spencer<\/a> and Sarah Bond were still in charge at Xbox.<\/p>\n Continuing, Bleszinski noted that since Sharma’s appointment in February of this year<\/a>, Xbox has been “steadily trying to win” back its core fanbase, and console exclusives are a part of that strategy. “E-day looks fantastic and the reception has been great so it seems like they’re steering the ‘ship’ back in the right direction,” he said in closing.<\/p>\n Image credit: The Coalition<\/p>\n Since her appointment, Sharma has been making a number of changes at Xbox, including cutting the price of Game Pass<\/a> by taking Call of Duty out of the service<\/a>. Earlier this month, Sharma spoke about the company’s stance on exclusivity for first-party games, stating she is aware that platforms “need” exclusive content<\/a>, but also that successful publishers need to reach players everywhere they can. As Sharma continues work on fixing the Xbox brand image, there is a growing call from the BDS movement to boycott the gaming platform<\/a> due to parent company Microsoft’s reported complicity in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian population and state.<\/p>\n As for Gears of War: E-Day, it will include Versus and Horde Mode<\/a> when it arrives on 6th October, via PC and Xbox Series X\/S. It will not be coming to PlayStation, as neither it or Clockwork Revolution are timed Xbox exclusives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many were surprised to learn that Gears of War: E-Day would be an Xbox console exclusive on its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-695662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n