Netflix has quickly turn out to be the Thanos of video-game variations, and the newest gem for its shiny streaming gauntlet is none aside from Gears of War.

In the wake of every part from animated sequence like Castlevania and Sonic Prime to live-action exhibits equivalent to Resident Evil and future acquisitions like Horizon Zero Dawn, The Division, and extra, at present—the sixteenth anniversary of the franchise, dubbed “Emergence Day” for the cataclysmic occasions that kick off Gears’ major battle—Netflix confirmed that it’s producing two sequence set within the Gears of War universe. The first is a live-action film adaptation of the franchise—presumably lastly killing the long-in-limbo plan by Universal to adapt the franchise—and the second is an grownup animated sequence.

Gears of War follows the human civilization on the planet Sera, after a devastating struggle over assets led to the varied factions of humanity uniting beneath the banner of the Coalition of Ordered Governments. Sera finds itself rocked once more when a subterranean civilization referred to as the Locust erupts beneath humanity’s toes, declaring struggle on the floor dwellers and pushing them to close extinction. As the footsoldiers of the COG, referred to as Gears, start a last-ditch effort to avoid wasting their species, they have interaction in conveniently-chest-high-cover-strewn battlefield combating, chainsaw-gunning their means by way of the hordes intent on bloodily wiping them out.

Gears marks the latest high-profile gaming adaptation round, a push largely pushed by Netflix itself after its personal cracks at gaming-adjacent franchises like The Witcher, or the aforementioned animated sequence overlaying every part from Castlevania to Tekken. Gears is the newest in a protracted line of upcoming introduced gaming variations from the streamer, and alongside its personal forays into gaming itself, it’s clear Netflix is making a giant guess on video games as a part of its future.

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