Gears of War is a 2006 third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is the first installment of the Gears of War series, and was initially released as an exclusive title for the Xbox 360 in November 2006. A Microsoft Windows version, developed in conjunction with People Can Fly, was released in November 2007. The game’s main story, which can be played in single or co-operative play, focuses on a squad of troops who assist in completing a desperate, last-ditch attempt to end a war against a genocidal subterranean enemy, the Locust, and save the remaining human inhabitants of their planet Sera. Wikipedia
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Şengün, Sercan, João M. Santos, Joni Salminen, Milica Milenkovic, and Bernard J. Jansen. “Is death only the beginning? How people mourn artificial characters in social media.” Games and Culture 20, no. 1 (2025): 77-124.