Microsoft's Black Tusk Studios is no more. The Gears of War developer is now called The Coalition, studio head Rod Fergusson announced today in a video explaining reason behind the name change.
Fergusson said that The Coalition is both a reference to "who we are as a team and what we're working on." By that he means Gears of War, referencing the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) that's part of the series' fiction.
"When people hear 343 Industries, they associate it with Halo; when they hear Turn 10 Studios, they know that's who makes Forza," Fergusson said in a post on Xbox.com. "Moving forward, when you hear The Coalition, we want you to think of Gears of War."