The Coalition, the developer of Gears of War 4 and Gears 5, has made some clear, some ambiguous statements about both the next generation and the games they are working on (or not working on).
First of all, The Coalition starts using Unreal Engine 5 after that, and Unreal Engine 4 days are behind them. The studio is currently working on multiple projects using Unreal Engine 5, but they prefer to keep what’s going on for now.
There have been claims for some time that The Coalition has been secretly working on a Star Wars game, but Gears of War community manager TC Kilo has categorically denied these allegations. “As for Star Wars, we’re not working on a game like this. We don’t have anything else to explain right now,” TC Kilo said, without hinting at which projects they were working on.
We shouldn’t expect a new game announcement from the studio for a while. They say switching to a new game engine is a big deal and they won’t be making new announcements for a while. But at least it’s not hard to imagine that at least one of the games under development is related to the Gears universe.