Gears of War 4 on disc needs an 11GB day-one patch, plan your launch marathons accordingly

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Be advised, non-connected and/or impatient Gearheads: physical copies of Gears of War 4 will require an additional 11GB of data to be downloaded before you can start playing. So sayeth Gears Grand Poobah (and The Coalition studio head) Rod Fergusson in a recent Tweet:

If you buy the game digitally, you can preload the 54.6GB package right now and start playing almost instantly on October 11. And you'll get a free copy of Gears 4 for Windows 10 (which you can also pre-load now) since it's an Xbox Play Anywhere game. Skipping the disc for big Xbox One titles is a pretty compelling proposition these days.

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.