Gears of War: E-Day, a new installment of the third-person shooter franchise from The Coalition that will serve as a prequel to the previous games, including 2007’s Gears of War, may be in development for not only Xbox and PC, but also PlayStation platforms, according to a new job listing that has surfaced on Microsoft’s Careers page. The “preferred” qualifications for the listing, which is for a Senior Online Client Engineer, calls for someone who has experience in “Xbox Live, PSN, Steam or other online gaming platforms.”
The listed qualifications include:
- “Interest in multiplayer gaming.”
- “Experience with Unreal Engine.”
- “Experience with other object-oriented programming languages (C# preferred).”
- “Game-specific networking experience including: object replication, client-server and peer-to-peer architectures, server migration, dedicated servers, time sync, prediction, QoS, voice, etc.”
- “Experience with Xbox Live, PSN, Steam or other online gaming platforms.”
- “Experience developing: sign-in flows, match making, progression systems, ugc/dlc systems, leaderboards.”
- “Experience with Azure, AWS or other cloud providers.”
The announcement trailer for Gears of War: E-Day:
From an Xbox interview:
“With the advancements in Unreal Engine 5, the leap in technical capabilities is tremendous,” explains Kate Rayner, Studio Technical Director at The Coalition. This includes over 100 times more environment and character details than Gears 5, hardware raytraced lighting, reflections and shadows, next generation destruction and gore, and cutting-edge animation technology, to name just a few of the countless improvements that will make Gears of War: E-Day an unrivalled visual experience.