{"id":92400,"date":"2026-11-02T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92400"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:36:57","slug":"gears-of-war-e-days-apparent-500-million-budget-may-not-tell-the-full-story-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92400","title":{"rendered":"Gears Of War: E-Day\u2019s Apparent $500 Million Budget May Not Tell The Full Story \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How much does a true console exclusive cost to make today? If recent reports are to be believed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-cost-half-a-billion-to-make-apparently\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gears of War: E-Day had a production cost<\/a> $500 million, but there&#8217;s more to that figure than just a single game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/gears-of-war-e-days-usd500-million-budget-story-over-simplifies\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/gaming\/xbox\/gears-of-war-e-days-usd500-million-budget-story-over-simplifies\">Windows Central writer Jez Corden<\/a>, who says he spoke with multiple sources familiar with the story behind the half-billion dollars paid over several years to The Coalition while it was working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gears of War: E-Day<\/a>. The studio emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic as a Swiss Army Knife developer that assisted not only on several Xbox games, but also worked on the technology powering them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Corden explained, The Coalition worked with Epic Games on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=II2gFPwm_EI&amp;pp=0gcJCSsMAYcqIYzv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oThe Matrix Awakens<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-dev-to-showcase-unreal-engine-5-alpha-point-demo-this-month\/1100-6493530\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alpha Point<\/a> tech demos for Unreal Engine 5 demonstrations, and used that knowledge to help other developers in the Xbox Games Studio portfolio. The Coalition reportedly worked for over 18 months on a prototype game that was eventually canceled, assisted on Avowed, Hellblade 2, Clockwork Revolution, State of Decay 3, Grounded, and Grounded 2, and even contributed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/starcraft-release-date-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upcoming StarCraft<\/a> at Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=teClq4qYyzQ  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once Mike Crump was appointed studio head, development on Gears of War:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much does a true console exclusive cost to make today? If recent reports are to be believed, Gears of War: E-Day had a production cost $500 million, but there&#8217;s more to that figure than just a single game. That&#8217;s according to Windows Central writer Jez Corden, who says he spoke with multiple sources familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92400","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\/92400"}],"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=92400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92403,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92400\/revisions\/92403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}