Summary
- Xbox has a promising 2025 lineup with titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 and Avowed, but that lineup could potentially be bolstered even further.
- According to Xbox insider Tom Warren, Microsoft had plans last year to release Gears of War: E-Day in 2025.
- We don’t know whether those plans have changed, but there’s the possibility that a stacked year for Xbox could get even more stacked.
Despite being mocked at every possible opportunity, Xbox has slowly managed to assemble a potential all-timer of a game lineup for 2025. Not only do we have smaller titles like South of Midnight and Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 coming fairly soon, but we also have behemoths like Doom: The Dark Ages, Avowed, and the recently announced Ninja Gaiden 4 scheduled for release this year.
That’s not even including some of the undated titles Xbox has penciled in for 2025, such as Fable and The Outer Worlds 2. It’s looking like a good year to own an Xbox, despite Microsoft’s best efforts to convince everyone they don’t need one, and now another previously announced game could be about to boost Xbox’s 2025 release schedule even further.
Gears Of War: E-Day Could Launch Sooner Than We Thought
Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago In Gears of War E-Day
Gears of War: E-Day was announced back at Summer Game Fest last year, but we’ve heard very little about it since. What with the announcement being a CGI trailer, it was assumed that the game was going to potentially be years away from release, but The Verge journalist Tom Warren has claimed that may not be the case.
In a new article talking about the upcoming flurry of Xbox games, Warren claims to have heard last year that Microsoft was planning to have Gears of War: E-Day release at some point in 2025. Warren himself has regularly reported on the inner workings of Microsoft, and has claimed that the rumored Oblivion remaster/remake will launch in late Spring or early Summer, which lines up with claims made by Nintendo Switch 2 leaker NateTheHate.

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It is also worth noting that it sounds as though Warren is going off of info he heard last year. Plans can change dramatically in game development, and Gears of War: E-Day could easily slip into 2026, especially given how many games Microsoft and Xbox are juggling right now. It’s difficult to imagine the company releasing all of its heavy hitters in such a short window of time.
If Gears of War: E-Day is going to release this year, it will almost definitely be included at this year’s summer Xbox Showcase or Summer Game Fest, so we’re going to have to wait a little while for confirmation. At least we have plenty of Xbox games between now and then to keep us occupied.