Gears Of War Developer The Coalition Has A New Opening

gameranx.com:

The Coalition has a new job opening, as a new job listing has appeared on Microsoft’s website. The listing itself highly suggests that a new Gears of War game is now in the middle of development.

The Coalition is looking for a senior gameplay designer, but the job listing expressly says: “Senior Gameplay Designer– Gears of War – The Coalition.”

While the studio was given the name The Coalition relatively recently, it has been around since 2010 and in fact started out as a mobile game developer. Of course, The Coalition were also not the original developer for Gears of War. Epic Games produced the series defining trilogy of the first Gears of Wars games before Microsoft purchased all rights to the franchise.

The Coalition has Gears of War 4 and Gears 5 under their belt, games that understand that they need to do more than recreate the original experience, as addictive and popular as they were. While The Coalition’s Gears of Wars games still feature the same multiplayer cover shooter mechanics, the story takes a wild turn, with surprising revelations about the origin of the Swarm, and the franchise’s original antagonists, the Locusts.

Speculation on new Gears of War games will just keep going until Microsoft actually announces them. Xbox’s marketing director actually just debunked a rumor about new games last January, but that certainly isn’t the last word about it (Particularly since it debunked very specific detailed rumors).

Rumors of a Gears of War Remastered Collection have been going possibly as far back as when The Coalition took over the franchise. This wasn’t a simple coincidence, as that happened around the time Microsoft had moved on from the Xbox 360 to Xbox One. For better or worse, Microsoft did not give