Da Microsoft annonserte planene om et nytt Gears of War uten hverken Epic Games (hele serien) eller People Can Fly (Gears of War: Judgment) i spissen, ble mange skeptiske.
Hvis du var en av dem kan du imidlertid roe deg helt ned, ettersom utviklerhuset Black Tusk Studios, med blant annet tidligere Gears of War-produsent Rod Fergusson (fra tiden hos Epic) med i staben, vil ha ansvaret for serien tiden fremover.
Det er i hvert fall nok til å berolige Microsoft Game Studios-sjef Ken Lobb:
- They're an internal studio, but the reality is it's cool to have [an IP] that can be a grand slam right out of the gate. The concepts they've been toying with are awesome. You take what they were thinking about and their expertise on Unreal Engine 4, because that's what they've been playing with since their founding, and really go with the IP. Again, this was a mutually agreed thing. It's not, ‘Here's this thing you must take.' That's not the way Phil [Spencer] works; that's not the way we work, kommenter Lobb.
Tror du det neste Gears-spillet blir fett, eller burde Microsoft ha spart pengene og latt serien være i fred?