We've heard a few things about Gears developer The Coalition over the past week, and the latest announcement is that the studio is officially shifting its resources to next-gen development with Unreal Engine 5.
Following that announcement yesterday, a member of the team took to Reddit to confirm that one of the "multiple projects" the team is working on is not a Star Wars game, saying they have "nothing else to announce at this time":
The reason this has been brought up is because it was lightly suggested by VentureBeat's Jeff Grubb last week, who pointed out that The Coalition was working on something other than Gears and (helping out with) Halo Infinite, and that he'd heard rumours - but wasn't confident at all - that it could potentially be a Star Wars game.
That's now been put to bed, of course, but Grubb did make another appearance on the Xbox News Cast podcast last night, suggesting that The Coalition's next project will be smaller in scale as the team gets used to Unreal Engine 5.
Sad that The Coalition isn't working on a Star Wars game? Give us your thoughts down in the comments below.
[source reddit.com, via youtube.com]
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To me this is good news, We already have Jedi Fallen Order 2 coming eventually.. I would rather The Coalition create a brand new awesome ip..
We don't deserve insiders like Grubb.
Good, Im sick of star wars
From what has been said, they seem to be working on a smaller experimental project first to get used to using UE5 and then they'll move onto Gears 6 afterwards.
Also, while a Star Wars game could have been cool, I think if we get overloaded with them, they will become stale.
Doesn't seem like they're working on Gears 6 either
So waiting for tomorrows Pure Xbox headline to be "Rumour Xbox studio working on next Half Life title - expected to be exclusive and on GP day 1", followed by the following day's headline of "Half Life title NOT in production".
Rinse and repeat with any other rumours you can think of....
A bit like boy who cried wolf - its now difficult to get excited with any rumour on this site as there are generally just too damn many of them.
Edit: This is not a slight on the site btw - just how the industry feels right now leaks / rumours. Generally feels Xbox 'people' is all about making up silly rumour to big the product up while on the PS side its about coming out with actual real stuff which is 99% of the time shooting itself in the foot!
This is why I don’t like Jeff Grubb, he hears something then runs with it, even if just as a passing comment.
You don’t have to relay every rumour you hear, get some sources first
Grubb is like that class clown in school who doesn't stfu but says something funny every once in a while.
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