Big numbers bolstered by cheap Game Pass subscriptions.

The Coalition's Gears 5 has seen a moderate amount of success. Microsoft revealed that the Xbox Game Studios published title has surpassed 3 million players across all platforms in its first week. This impressive number is undoubtedly bolstered by a huge number of users taking up Microsoft on their very generous Game Pass offers.

Like other first-party titles, Gears 5 was another Xbox One game that was available on...

A solid month for both platforms.

The "free" games coming this August for PlayStation Plus subscribers and Xbox Live Gold members were revealed this week. It looks to be a fairly solid month for both platforms, with Sony offering up WipEout Omega Collection and Sniper Elite 4. Sony's games will be made available to PlayStation 4 owners starting August 6 and running through until September 2. This means that you have until August 5 to pick up Detroit: Become Human Digital...

The "biggest ever update" for Gears of War 4 is slated to arrive on June 6. The "Rise of the Horde" update for the game will be free to everyone and will add in 15 new skills, level 6 skills, two new difficulty levels, and 20 new achievements.
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The "biggest ever update" for Gears of War 4 is slated to arrive on June 6. The "Rise of the Horde" update for the game will...

If you don't care about spoilers and want to watch the first 20 minutes of Gears of War 4, then kick back and enjoy the following!...

If you don't care about spoilers and want to watch the first 20 minutes of Gears of War 4, then kick back and enjoy the following!
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The PC version of Gears of War 4 will include split-screen co-op support. This should be great for those that have their computers hooked up to their TVs for a little couch co-op action. Mike Rayner, the game's Technical Director, says that they added this feature because of how many people wanted it in Gears of War Ultimate Edition.
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The PC version of Gears of War 4 will include split-screen co-op support. This should be great for those that have their computers hooked up to...

The rather steep system requirements for the PC version of Gears of War 4 were announced today. Among the notable requirements are 80GB of free drive space, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, and at least a Geforce 750 Ti.

If you don't want to view the above image, the minimum, recommended, and "ideal" system specs can be found below.
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The rather steep system requirements for the PC version of Gears of War 4 were announced today. Among the notable requirements are 80GB of free...

If you pre-order Gears of War 4, you will have immediate access to the End Elite Gear Pack, a collection of characters and skins for use in the game. One of those characters is a zombified version of Dom from the previous games. Why? Because The Coalition don't give a daaaaaaaaamn, that's why!

These new character skins are in addition to the other pre-order incentives, detailed below.
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If you pre-order Gears of War 4, you will have immediate access to the End Elite Gear Pack, a collection of characters and skins for use in the...

I received a number of press mailings today, most of which are kind of neat! However, there are so many hours in the day and I can't spend all of them tossing up individual news posts for each of them. It's the sad reality of the 24 hour days that we live in. Hopefully, you'll be able to find something in these snippets below that interest you enough to check out. Without further ado, here are the latest NewsBits for July 20, 2016.
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I received a number of press mailings today, most of which are kind of neat! However, there are so many hours in the day and I can't spend all...

If you would like to play the Horde mode for Gears of War 4, you may be excited to hear that only the host of the session needs to own the maps in order for everyone to play. This news was passed along to Shacknews from The Coalition's Rod Fergusson. A group of friends can have one friend pick up the maps and act as host for all sessions. If any of those people enjoy the maps, they can then purchase the maps for themselves in order to be the host for others. This is a departure from previo...