{"id":90147,"date":"2026-09-25T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90147"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:37:14","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-preload-times-install-size-and-global-launch-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90147","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War: E-Day Preload Times, Install Size, And Global Launch Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several years have passed since\u00a0the last new Gears of War game was released, but at long last, that drought is almost over. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\/\" data-type=\"games\" data-id=\"557964\">Gears of War: E-Day<\/a>\u00a0will be one of the early highlights of October, and if you&#8217;re looking to rev your Lancer up and turn back the Locust tide, you can start playing really soon. Like other big upcoming games, you&#8217;ll also have the option to preload Gears of War: E-Day, so you can jump right into the fray on launch day. Here&#8217;s a closer look at the timing for this new chapter in the series.<\/p>\n<p> Gears of War: E-Day install size <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-on-pc-wont-let-you-play-without-a-ray-tracing-capable-gpu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official PC requirements<\/a> for Gears of War: E-Day, the game will require 115GB of storage capacity on that platform. Xbox Series X|S install sizes are typically on par with PC, so overall, you&#8217;ll want to make sure you have at least 100GB of free space available on your machine. That&#8217;s a pretty noticeable increase in size, as the previous game, Gears 5, required a chunky 80GB of space when it was first released back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One other thing to note is that if you&#8217;re planning to play on PC, the game requires a solid-state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years have passed since\u00a0the last new Gears of War game was released, but at long last, that drought is almost over. Gears of War: E-Day\u00a0will be one of the early highlights of October, and if you&#8217;re looking to rev your Lancer up and turn back the Locust tide, you can start playing really soon&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":90149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90150,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147\/revisions\/90150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}