GTR Retro: Microsoft buys Gears of War franchise from Epic Games (2014)

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Other Games, Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.2 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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GTR Retro revisits 2014: Mandy and Patrick discuss Microsoft's Gears of War acquisition, the series' evolution, and concerns about gaming's future, including the need for new IPs and challenges in sequel-driven markets.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen.
0:02.8	This is Gamer Tag Radio.
0:06.6	All right, welcome to a brand new episode here, Gamer Tag Radio.
0:09.8	This is your host, Danny Pena.
0:11.3	And for this episode of GTR Retro, we're going to take it back to 2014.
0:18.7	And this is when we first heard that Microsoft Studios acquires the rights to the
0:25.5	Gears of War franchise and at that time it was owned by Epic Games so when that news came
0:33.6	out back in January 27th of 2014.
0:40.3	Former members of GTR at that time, Mandy, aka Lady Luck and also Pausing J. Patrick.
0:47.1	They got together and recorded an episode about this news.
0:51.6	Now, this episode was only released for GTR app users.
0:58.1	So if you never downloaded an app that we had at that time, you probably completely missed this episode.
1:05.0	This was only for app users, GTR app users.
1:09.0	So it was a great conversation
1:10.8	this is like about 40 something
1:13.0	minutes or so
1:14.1	conversation between the two
1:15.7	and I'm gonna play it here
1:17.7	on Gamer Tag Radio so
1:19.9	I know it's been a couple months
1:21.9	that we haven't played
1:22.8	any of the GTR retro episodes
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