Gears of War: Judgment writers are Tom Bissell and Rob Auten

Gears of War: Judgment is being written not by Gears of War 3 scribe Karen Traviss, but by Extra Lives author Tom Bissell and Rob Auten, Epic Games revealed to Eurogamer.

Traviss told IGN earlier this month that she was no longer working on the Gears franchise.

This extends Bissell's years-long collaboration with Epic — he profiled design director Cliff Bleszinski for The New Yorker in 2008 and wrote The Art and Design of Gears of War, which appeared exclusively in the Epic Edition of Gears 3. Auten previously worked as a consultant with 20th Century Fox on titles such as James Cameron's Avatar: The Video Game and Aliens vs. Predator.

Auten and Bissell are slated to appear on the "Gears of War: Past, Present & Future" panel at San Diego Comic-Con, along with Bleszinski, director of production Rod Fergusson, and Baird voice actor Fred Tatasciore. The panel appears to be focused on the Gears series as a whole, but will make time for a Q&A session, so you can prepare some Judgment questions for the writers if you're going to attend.