Lige siden Epic Games helt droppede at udvikle eksklusive Gears of War-spil for Microsoft, så har tjansen hvilet hos The Coalition, der blev startet af Rod Fergusson, og som sidenhen har overset udviklingen af Gears of War 4 og Gears 5. Faktisk er der flere af studiets ansatte, der siger at det er hans vision af Gears-serien som studiet eksekverer på.
Men for ikke så lang tid siden forlod Fergusson så The Coalition for en stilling hos Blizzard, men The Coalition vil dog fortsætte i samme identitetsmæssige spor som før. Dette bekræfter Narrative Director Bonnie Jean Mah i et interview med IGN.
"Having [Rod] guide us and instill that Gears DNA into our studio, I am confident in saying that we live and breathe Gears and understand his intention for this franchise. We've been living it, we've been realizing his creative vision over the past six years. So now that he's gone off to new adventures, I feel like we have it in our studio blood and our studio gut feeling about what would happen next. And we do have hints of what he was thinking of, but he was also very open to new ideas for what would happen next."
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