Rumor: Gears 3 and five player co-op in 2010

by Dustin Burg { Dec 11th 2008 at 9:15AM }

Even though Gears of War 2 released to retail about a month ago, that doesn't stop the sequel rumor mill from a churning. The latest Gears rumor to surface is word that Gears of War 3 is in development and EGM claims will be ready for release Christmas 2010. Even more rumor worthy, EGM adds that the third Gears installment will utilize a "five player co-op experience", which we're guessing is co-op campaign over Live.

But don't get too excited, because these exciting (and somewhat early) Gears 3 rumors have already been shot down by Epic's Mark Rein. Rein informed Eurogamer that the rumors are "total nonsense," adding that "we're still working on improvements to Gears 2." We say keep the Gears 2 updates coming, the DLC flowing and we'll shift our focus to Gears 3 in a year or two.

Source - EGM's Gears 3 rumor
Source - Mark Rein's rumor response

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war-2, gow2, rumor, rumors

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

rohan @ Dec 11th 2008 9:22AM

honesty that is the dumbest thing i have ever heard of. Why would they start to spend all there time in GeOW 3 when there are still problems in GeOW 2?? (and u cannot deny there are no problems in 2)

glpee @ Dec 11th 2008 11:20AM

dude its like 2 years away and you say its a dumb thing.. uh ok whatever, i dont think its going to take 2 years to fix whatever "problems" you have with gears 2. i didnt even know gears 2 had any problems, works fine for me

yolarrydabomb @ Dec 11th 2008 11:39AM

after the first update. I have no problems anymore.

1hrcleaner @ Dec 11th 2008 9:34AM

My sources tell me that GOW3 will be a launch title for the Xbox720.

Gioba @ Dec 11th 2008 10:08AM

Hope they'll come up with a better name for the next console.

oxweeblexo @ Dec 11th 2008 11:18AM

thats not the title of the next xbox

yolarrydabomb @ Dec 11th 2008 11:40AM

what I hear its going to be xbox 3

just like Windows 7.

Getting rid of the fancy names.

Rick @ Dec 11th 2008 9:36AM

EGM must be having a slow news month. Apparently nothing else has happened in gaming recently.

conan @ Dec 12th 2008 7:05PM

gear of war 3 ????? at the end of the credits on gow2

ericvitale @ Dec 11th 2008 10:27AM

I heard yesterday that GOW3 is going to fix matchmaking and reduce waiting times from 2-10 minutes to 2-9 minutes.

Can't blame x3f from posting this. Everyone else is and if they don't they are not providing new. I don't consider this news but 90% of those out there do.

Jonman @ Dec 11th 2008 10:40AM

If you think for a moment that Epic *aren't* considering Gears 3, then you're deluding yourself. This is a multi-million selling flagship franchise: to not be planning Gears 3 would be unforgivably stupid on their part.

Notice Rein's weasel words "shift focus" - he's not claiming that they're not working on it, just that they're still working on GoW2 while 3 is in early pre-preproduction.

Gamertag: GOPAL892005 @ Dec 11th 2008 10:57AM

Epic have already started development on Gears 3 just as Gears 2 was started before/just after Gears 1 shipped.

Epic obviously have a team working on Gears 3 & a team working on Gears 2 Online Fixes + DLC.

I personally cant wait for Gears 2 on PC :p
You cant say its not coming, as they said the same thing about Gears 1.