{"id":29317,"date":"2014-01-27T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=29317"},"modified":"2014-01-27T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:08:27","slug":"gears-war-settles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/01\/27\/gears-war-settles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War settles down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gears of War franchise has been a success on Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox 360 system, but there have always been rumblings about it coming to Sony&#8217;s ecosystem in one from or another. Since the intellectual property was owned by Epic Games, there was always the possibility that the studio could make Gears games on the PlayStation 3 or 4 if they wanted. In June 2012 Epic&#8217;s then-president Mike Capps expressed interest in porting the trilogy to the PS3, but that never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>There is bad news for people that hoped to see Marcus Fenix &#8220;roadie-run&#8221; onto the PlayStation. Microsoft has purchased the Gears of War franchise from Epic making the chances for a port infinitely less likely to happen. On <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xbox.com\/2014\/01\/games-microsoft-studios-gears-of-war\">Xbox Wire<\/a>, Microsoft announced that not only did they buy the IP from the North Carolina-based studio, they also nabbed Rod Fergusson, the former Director of Production at Epic, and he will be joining Black Tusk Studios to work on future Gears productions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Epic Games has reached an agreement to sell the &#8216;Gears of War&#8217; intellectual property rights to Microsoft.  We&#8217;re very proud of the franchise we built in close partnership with Microsoft over the past decade and are happy that this agreement enables Microsoft to forge ahead with the &#8216;Gears&#8217; universe on their industry-leading platforms as Epic concentrates its efforts on new projects,&#8221; said Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. &#8220;Epic remains totally dedicated to supporting Xbox One and is licensing the Unreal Engine 4 technology to Microsoft in support of their future projects.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mgsvancouver.com\/\">Black Tusk Studios<\/a> is based in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gears of War franchise has been a success on Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox 360 system, but there have always been rumblings about it coming to Sony&#8217;s ecosystem in one from or another. 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