“Your adventure is over, for now…” reads the description of the Platinum Trophy for Gears of War: Reloaded. As Insider Gaming notes, this wording might be more deliberate than it appears, since Xbox doesn’t have an equivalent achievement that a player earns for earning all of the other achievements.

Rumours have been going around about a Gears of War Collection coming to multiple platforms for some time. This collection would presumably feature all of the mainline Gears of War games, which would be especially noteworthy since Gears of War 2, 3 and Judgment never made it to platforms aside from the Xbox 360. Multiplatform releases for the franchise only properly began with Gears of War 4 for Xbox One and PC. Gears of War: Reloaded is the first title in the series to have also been released on PlayStation.

Interestingly, rumours for this Gears of War Collection have also indicated that none of the PvP modes would be brought along. Despite this, however, the collection is expected to allow for co-op play through all of the campaigns. Whether we will also see the return of the older titles’ Horde modes is also currently unknown.

Gears of War: Reloaded just came out on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S yesterday. The title serves as an upgrade/remaster for the original 2007 release of Gears of War. Along with high resolution textures, support for 4K and smoother frame rates, Gears of War: Reloaded also features all of the content and DLC that had been released for the classic third-person action game and its Ultimate Edition release.

While the game might be seeing quite a bit of success, especially on consoles, PC players who prefer to buy their titles through Steam have been facing quite a few issues. The title currently sits at an aggregate of Mixed reviews on Steam, with many negative reviews for the game complaining about technical issues as well as the lack of split-screen multiplayer.

“It was advertised to feature local co-op on PC, similar to Gears 5, which we enjoyed from beginning to end,” noted one user review on Steam. “It was the reason we bought this game. False advertising is the worst.”

Interestingly, while the Steam listing for Gears of War: Reloaded previously mentioned that split-screen co-op for the campaign would be available, updates to the Steam page have since removed references to the feature. Players have also been facing issues with linking their Microsoft accounts to the title, as well as technical issues causing the game to crash whenever graphics settings have been changed.

For more details about Gears of War: Reloaded, check out our review of the PS5 release.

Windows Central’s Jez Corden has since chimed in, noting that he also heard about the collection lacking competitive multiplayer. The reasons for this are unknown but he added that co-op will apparently still be included. Which is a good thing, given how iconic Horde mode has been for the series.

Of course, it’s unknown which games will make it into the collection or if they’re remastered. Neither The Coalition nor Microsoft has indicated that it’s even in the works. As always, stay tuned for further updates.

Meanwhile, the next title in the franchise is Gears of War: E-Day, a prequel set 14 years before the first game and focuses on Emergence Day. Though previously rumored for this year, it’s allegedly launching in 2026 instead.

actually, i too have heard no multiplayer

— Jez (@JezCorden) March 5, 2025

yea im not sure why they did it this way.

— Jez (@JezCorden) March 5, 2025

yeah co-op, but not PvP, is what i heard

— Jez (@JezCorden) March 5, 2025

The Last of Us Remake Gameplay

The Last of Us is one of the greatest games ever made – even if a remake doesn’t make sense, one can’t deny the appeal of vastly improved visuals, gameplay improvements and even more content. There have been rumblings for some time about the remake but more recently, insider Tom Henderson stated it would release in the latter half of 2022. VentureBeat’s Jeff Grubb corroborated the same with sources claiming it would launch in Holiday 2022. Sony hasn’t announced a showcase for June, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get a bombshell announcement and gameplay at the Summer Game Fest.

Phil Spencer, ever a man stuck in between a rock and a hard place, often takes to Twitter to do his best to assuage gamers of their concerns and to help clarify the facts. To that end, he was indeed online recently to answer questions that were put to him.

One user asked Phil if there were any plans in place to improve the install times of games as it can take hours. To which he responded, “Talked to team about times this week. Most games are == but we need to do more work on disc layout tools to help devs.”

Next up, a certain website fabricated a press release to confirm that the Gears of War Collection Bundle was indeed a real thing. Spencer debunked this by saying, “Not from me, I’ve never seen those pics before.” and going on to say, “it wasn’t an announcement by us, looks made up.”

Honestly, you should just follow Spencers Twitter account as he reveals interesting information at times. He also spoke about his plans for 2015 by saying “Yea from all that seems to be coming in 2015 (from us and others) looks like 2015 could be one to remember for awhile.”

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