Just a few hours ahead of the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, insider Jeff Grubb revealed during a Giant Bomb stream that The Coalition's Gears of War: E-Day was supposed to launch on PlayStation 5 but won't anymore. I'll say it here. Gears of War: E-Day was going to be on PS5; it's not anymore. That just happened. Like, it's a decision that just got made. And it's like, they're going backwards on this stuff where they were like, this battle doesn't make any sense. Indeed, Microsoft had chosen to go fully multiplatform with many of its games. Gears of War: […]

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Yesterday, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was featured in a live interview on Bloomberg Tech, where she discussed her first 100 days as the new head of Xbox (replacing Phil Spencer back in February) and what comes next. Arguably, the most interesting tidbit of the talk was Sharma's response to one of the hottest topics on Xbox fans' minds: exclusivity. Microsoft famously walked away from it (both the upcoming Halo: Campaign Evolved and Fable reboot will land day one on PlayStation 5, for example), but there's been rumors that Sharma might be willing to reconsider. Officially, she outlined the tension between […]

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