Gears 5 Hivebusters
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Here’s a welcome surprise. Gears 5 is getting a new expansion on December 15 with a 3-hour romp across a set of volcanic islands. But this new story content won’t focus on the original story characters. Instead, it takes the trio from the Escape mode and gives them a new story. Let’s roll the trailer.

Damn, Gears 5 is such a good looking game. And check out Colonel Hoffman at the end. 

Here are some details straight from the folks at Xbox:

In the new expansion, play as Lahni, Keegan and Mac – the heroes introduced in Gears 5’s Escape mode – in their first mission as part of the secretive Hivebuster program. Thrown together and dubbed “Scorpio Squad,” their suicide mission to destroy a Swarm hive may hold the key to saving Sera and their own redemption.

  • Enjoy a new, 3-hour campaign set on the volcanic Galangi islands. The island lava flows and sandy beaches are crawling with Swarm and a deadly new predator.
  • Use and upgrade Ultimate Abilities in a campaign story setting for the first time.
  • Up to 3-player co-op, split-screen or online.
  • 16 new achievements to unlock for 210 Gamerscore
  • The expansion supports Gears 5 Xbox Series X|S optimizations, including reduced load times, quick resume, variable refresh rates and 4K HDR Ultra visuals on Series X.

Gears 5: Hivebusters also becomes the first Xbox Game Studios campaign expansion to join Xbox Game Pass Ultimate when it releases on December 15. Here’s hoping this becomes a trend for a bunch more Xbox games in the future. For folks who don’t have Game Pass, it’ll be $19.99. 

Gears 5 isn’t the only Xbox game getting some more love recently. Forza Horizon 4 gets a track builder in its Super7 update releasing today. 

A quick note on Gears 5: Hivebusters: it requires the base game to play, as seen on its Steam product page.

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