Until Gears' console release this time last year, developer Epic was more famous for Unreal Tournament and the all-conquering Unreal Engine 3, used as the de facto modern game engine to build titles such as BioShock. Gears of War has shifted over four million copies on Xbox 360 alone, won countless Game of the Year awards and become one of the most popular online shooters of all time.

As the legendary lead designer CliffyB said to me earlier in the day, the new multiplayer game is indeed, 'fucking hilarious. We're playing the Gears of War PC's new King of the Hill mode, which has just seen myself and four other players kill each other viciously from behind one after another in a hilarious cartoon chain of death. It is a Play Anywhere title, so if you buy it digitally on Xbox One, you'll get a copy of the PC version free and vice versa.I Reel Back in my chair, chuckling, as a group LOL breaks the silence in Epic's dimly-lit testing room, twinkling with the LEDs of 14 state-of-the-art games machines. Gears of War 4 launches on October 11 for Xbox One and PC. Everyone who played Gears of War Ultimate Edition before the end of 2015 received the four Xbox 360 games free.

This isn't the first time Microsoft has given away Gears of War games. Additionally, tokens for the games will be sent 'in waves' through Xbox Live messages 'within one month of redemption.' The offer expires on December 31. The fine print explains that you will need 32 GB of hard drive space to download all four Gears of War Xbox 360 games. The games- Gears of War (2006), Gears of War 2 (2008), Gears of War 3 (2011), and Gears of War Judgment (2013)-are playable on Xbox One through backwards compatibility. Everyone who buys the game on Xbox One-digital or at retail- before the end of 2016 will receive copies of all the Gears of War Xbox 360 games. Microsoft has announced a new incentive to encourage people to pick up Gears of War 4.

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