
Gears 5 is getting a new campaign expansion next week. It’ll be available at no extra cost for members of Xbox Game…

WWE stable The New Day are the latest wrestlers to cross over to Gears 5. The trio may have been separated across brands during the most recent draft, but at least you and a couple of friends can keep the dream alive in online multiplayer.

Video game characters are much more than the sum of their pixels. Behind the dialogue, grunts and cheers is a…

What’s the hardest challenge you’ve beaten in a game? On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we talk about tough fights we’ve had in Sekiro, Gears 5, and Hollow Knight, and invite listeners to tell us theirs via splitscreen@kotaku.com. Get the MP3 here.

I still hate Jack, Gears of War’s Pixar-like companion drone, but after hearing the inspiration behind him I appreciate why he exists. Gears 5 director Rod Fergusson said at a recent game conference that Jack was meant to give non-Gears players an approachable cooperative role similar to Mario Galaxy’s co-star mode.