Gears of War: E-Day's Steam player peak has already passed the series' all-time record, and it's still only in limited beta

The first leg of Gears of War: E-Day's beta has only just clawed its way out of the ground, and it's putting up some strong Steam numbers already. The Gears of War: E-Day open beta's first portion runs from August 6 (yesterday) to August 10 on Xbox Series X|S consoles and PC, and it seems to be doing quite well right out of the gate. According to SteamDB, the beta managed to get 14,331 players chainsaw-gunning and wall-hopping at the same time, and we haven't even reached its first weekend where multiplayer games usually balloon. Last year's re-remastered Gears of War Reloaded reached just under 5,000 concurrent Steam players, strategy gem Gears Tactics hoarded 7,351 players together, and the previous record holder Gears 5 peaked with a little over 10,000 people.