NVIDIA & Microsoft Team Up To Give Away Free Copies of Gears of War 4 If You Buy GTX1080/1070

NVIDIA & Microsoft accept teamed up to provide a Geforce GTX Gears of War 4 package for those who are buying a GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 menu, either stand-alone or in a PC/laptop.

Essentially, you lot'll get a free code for the game from today through Oct xxx, though in that location's a chance that the retailer will honor the purchase even if yous purchased a carte a few days ago - at that place are already reports nearly Newegg doing it, for example. Yous'll take to make sure that you're purchasing from a retailer that is participating in this initiative, of course.

It seems similar Microsoft is going to push Gears of War 4 heavily on the PC side. Earlier today, The Coalition's Technical Director Mike Raynor said that DirectX 12, Microsoft's new low-level API, helped a lot in getting additional functioning on PC. He likewise mentioned that the game has been future-proofed with an "Insane" graphics setting that's been made to calibration with new hardware and SLI/CrossFire MultiGPU systems. It seems that we're far from the woes of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, though of course we'll accept to exam the game ourselves to confirm it.

You can observe Microsoft's recommended NVIDIA GPUs in the official paradigm below; the full system requirements can be found hither. The PC version will too take LAN support and campaign split-screen coop.

Gears of War four just got a launch trailer (embedded below once once more in example you lot missed it). It's due to launch on Oct 11th for both Xbox One and Windows 10, though you can get it four days before by pre-ordering the Ultimate Edition.

The game is now "gold", with Microsoft's CEO Natya Sadella joining the celebrations at the Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia.

For the occasion, The Coalition's Studio Caput Rod Fergusson (who confirmed just yesterday that competitive multiplayer cross-play is available for private matches) released a statement:

This has been a existent homecoming for me. Coming back to Xbox to lead a studio of talented people from around the earth, all focused on Gears of War, and doing so in my dwelling house state of Canada in one of the best cities in the world for technology and entertainment has been a dream come true.

Xbox division Head Phil Spencer added:

Ten years ago, Gears of War was the killer app that brought millions into the Xbox family unit. It'due south combination of innovative engineering science, unique gameplay, and trademark storytelling inverse the game forever.

With Gears of War iv, I'm very proud of what the squad at The Coalition has achieved. Non only is information technology the about technically aggressive Gears game yet – with split up-screen play on both Xbox and Windows 10, Xbox Play Anywhere support, Cantankerous Play across all co-op modes, and available 4K graphics – information technology'south a render to the grounded, tense and brutal tone that fabricated so many fall in love with this universe, story and characters for the starting time time.

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