Fable is Reportedly Targeting Q4 2025 and Gears of War: E-Day May Arrive Before That

This past weekend, Microsoft delivered the goods with their Xbox Games Showcase, rolling out trailers and announcements for a number of exciting-looking projects. What they didn’t necessarily deliver was a lot of hard release dates or even launch windows – we know some games like Avowed and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are coming in 2024, and others like Doom: The Dark Ages, Fable, and South of Midnight have broad 2025 release windows. Others, like Perfect Dark and Gears of War: E-Day have no release windows attached to them at all.

Well, in his latest newsletter (sign up here), The Verge’s Tom Warren provides some release-window info he’s heard about some of Microsoft’s biggest upcoming games. Per Warren, the new Fable is currently slated to arrive sometime between October and December of 2025, likely making it Team Green’s big holiday game for next year. As for Gears of War: E-Day, Warren has heard it will arrive sometime in 2025, perhaps even before Fable is released. Warren cautions that Gears plans may have changed, and that the lack of an official release window may be to give developers The Coalition “some breathing room,” but ultimately, it seems like this isn’t a case of Microsoft releasing a teaser trailer for something that’s barely started development as they’ve done in the past – the game likely isn’t too far off.

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Of course, take this with a grain of salt for now, but Warren has a solid track record when it comes leaking Xbox details. If these rumors do pan out, 2025 is shaping up to be a strong one for Xbox, at least from a software perspective – who knows how the actual Xbox hardware will be doing by then. You can check out the latest trailer for the new Fable here and the first teaser for Gears of War: E-Day here.

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