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Microsoft Reveals New Gears Tactics Game, Coming to PC on April 28, 2020
It looks like Microsoft is far from being done with the Gears saga. After successfully launching Gears 5 a few months ago, the Redmond-based company announced a brand-new Gears game that will arrive on PC next year. Dubbed Gears Tactics,…
Dubbed Gears Tactics, the game is a departure from the traditional third-person shooter genre specific to the series, and offers players a less frantically turn-based strategy gameplay experience. Revealed at The Game Awards last week, Gears Tactics will be available for PC via Steam and Xbox Game Pass on April 28, 2020.
The game is developed by the same studio responsible for Gears 5 – The Coalition, as well as Splash Damage. Gears Tactics is set 12 years before the first Gears of War, so you could say it's a prequel. Here is a short description of the game's premise:
“Cities across the planet Sera are beginning to fall to the monstrous threat rising from underground – the Locust Horde. With the government in disarray, a squad of survivors emerges...
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title: Detect Exploitation - Microsoft Reveals New Gears Tactics Game, Coming to PC on April 28, 2020
id: c9e01bea-b410-4c8d-9581-284f5af14212
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-27
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-27"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "Microsoft Reveals New Gears Ta" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Microsoft Reveals New Gears Tactics Game")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*Microsoft Reveals New Gears Tactics Game*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Microsoft Reveals New Gears Tactics Game"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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