Gears of War: E-Day is reportedly planned as the first game in a trilogy focused on the Emergence storyline. MrMattyPlays stated in a recent video that E-Day is planned as a trilogy If true, E-Day would be the start of a much larger story exploring the events surrounding Emergence Day and the beginning of the Locust War.

Gears of War: E-Day reportedly cost over $500 million to develop, excluding marketing. A source familiar with Xbox’s business says the budget exceeds earlier reports of over $400 million. Alinea Analytics estimates around 230,000 copies sold in the first week, generating about $37 million. Microsoft has not yet released official sales or player numbers. A PS5 release probably wouldn’t have solved the problem. Gears of War: Reloaded sold 684,000 copies on PS5, which would have added roughly $33 million in revenue for E-Day after platform fees. If true, the studio is cooked, Asha is coming for them.

Gears of War: E-Day has been hit by a DDoS attack, causing problems with its servers and preventing some players from connecting. A DDoS attack works by sending huge amounts of traffic to a server to overload it and make it stop working properly. The problem is that these server issues can also affect players who just want to play the campaign alone. When a game depends on an internet connection, server problems can ruin the experience even when you’re not playing online with anyone.

Gears of War: E-Day was undercut by Game Pass, says Alinea's Rhys Elliott, as 722K early buyers paid just $30. 🔗 The game has sold only 230K units across Xbox (console and PC app) and Steam, a meager result for a triple-A game that has been in development for many years with a massive budget. 168K units were sold on Steam, and only 62K on Xbox.

Gears of War: E-Day has sold around 230K copies, according to @alineaanalytics , but there’s more to the story. >Steam: 168K copies sold, bringing in around $11M >Xbox: Just 62K copies sold, but nearly $26M in revenue. >Game Pass: An estimated 1.7M players accessed the game through the subscription. >Early access: 722K Game Pass subscribers reportedly paid $30 extra to play up to five days early, generating around $21.7M That means nearly 950K players paid something to play early or buy the game.

Gears of War: E-Day PC modding is already underway, with one character-replacement project bringing Halo’s Noble Team and Master Chief into the campaign. Even Warhammer and Star Wars characters are showing up!

Gears of War: E-Day still doesn’t have a photo mode. Past Gears games never had one, and The Coalition hasn’t added one here either. This is the first new entry of the Series X era, built in Unreal Engine 5 and set in a city at the start of the Locust war. A night stretch in the woods has moonlight on the leaves. It still looks solid on a Series S, even with a lower resolution and some choppy frames. A photo mode would also clear the HUD and the dialogue captions out of the shot. Nothing on one being added.

Gears of War: E-Day is out in early access, and a few series staples are not in it. The Coalition says meat shields, chainsaw duels, some older weapons, private lobbies, and leaderboards are missing at launch. The studio said it started E-Day “with an empty hard drive,” rebuilding the sandbox so campaign, PvE, and PvP share one setup. The trade-off, it said, is that every legacy feature could not make launch. Those features are not cut from the series. The team says it will look at bringing them back after launch, or in the next game. Versus Ranked is set for October 13.

Gears of War: E-Day early scores: 10 - DayOne 9.5 - TechRaptor 9.5 - But Why Tho 9.5 - MondoXbox 9 - IGN 9 - CGM 9 - Voxel 9 - Nexus Hub 9 - Screen Rant 9 - Console Creatures 8.5 - XGN 8.5 - Areajugones 8 - VGC 8 - Slant 8 - GAMINGbible 8 - SteamDeckHQ 6 - The Guardian Metacritic is at 89. OpenCritic is at 87. The Guardian is the only real outlier.