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'We wish all the best for Rod,' Booty tells us.

Microsoft was clearly aware of this, with studio boss Matt Booty jumping on a call with to reassure the world that Gears and The Coalition isn't going anywhere. His departure from the IP after 14 years (to work on Diablo) might raise some questions over what the future holds for The Coalition and the Gears brand, which just released its most recent game (Gears 5) in September last year. He's worked on every Gears title, and has recently teamed up with external studios on the release of Gears Pop and Gears Tactics.

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He's been with the franchise since its inception in 2006 at Epic Games, and has led The Coalition - the Xbox studio tasked with handling the series - since 2014. The Gears of War games have been amongst the most popular and most played titles on Xbox Live.Rod Fergusson is a name synonymous with Gears of War. All five installments in Gears of War featured several multiplayer modes that allowed players to compete against each other or team-up to battle AI opponents on Xbox Live. The series is well known for its emphasis on cover-based combat, in which players can use objects to avoid gunfire or safely engage enemies. Gears of War became one of the best-selling franchises for the Xbox 360.

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Canadian studio The Coalition developed Gears of War 4, which was released on Octofor the Xbox One and Windows 10. On January 27, 2014, Microsoft acquired all rights to the franchise from Epic Games. The first four installments of the Gears of War series used a modified version of the Unreal Engine 3 engine. The series was also guided by Rod Fergusson, the executive producer and director of development of Epic Games until 2012. He was inspired by gameplay elements from Resident Evil 4, Kill Switch, and Bionic Commando. Cliff Bleszinski, who has previously worked on Epic's Unreal Tournament games, served the seriesвЂ™ lead game designer for the first three installments. Gears of War was developed by Epic Games. The series' third sequel, Gears of War 4, is set 25 years after Gears of War 3 and follows Marcus Fenix's son, JD, as he battles a new resurrected Locust Horde that once again threatens humanity.

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition was released for Microsoft Windows on March 1, 2016. In 2013, Epic Games and Microsoft released Gears of War: Judgment, a prequel to the seriesвЂ™ first title, which instead focuses on Damon Baird, one of Fenix's squad-mates. Two subsequent titles, Gears of War 2 (2008) and Gears of War 3 (2011), continued Fenix and humanity's ongoing conflict with the Locust Horde and Lambent forces. The game follows protagonist Marcus Fenix, a soldier in the Coalition of Ordered Governments tasked to lead a last-ditch effort to destroy the Locust Horde and save humanity. The first installment, titled Gears of War, was released on Novemfor the Xbox 360. The franchise consists of five third-person shooter video games, which has also been supplemented by a comic book series and five novels.

The series focuses on the conflict between humanity, the subterranean reptilian hominids known as the Locust Horde, and their mutated counterparts, the Lambent & the Swarm. Gears of War is a video game franchise created by Epic Games, developed and managed by The Coalition, and owned and published by Microsoft Studios.

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