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Gearbox Software EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag 'The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned' gets its own site 13 November 24? Why, that's next week! In the rush of recent releases, I had almost forgotten about my beloved Borderlands and its premier downloadable content pack, "The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned." ... Gearbox had the opportunity to make a Blade Runner game 36 If you ever wondered what a Blade Runner videogame could look like in today's gaming landscape, the above CryEngine 2 mock-up should be sufficient. According to a recent report from OXM, Gearbox ... Hey Borderlands PC players, here's that patch you wanted 23 Update 1.01 for the PC version of Borderlands is here! Thank goodness, because after looking over the patch notes, you can't help but notice just how big some of these issues really are. Charact... Borderlands: best week one sales of any fresh IP in 2009 48 Borderlands -- the fantastic end result of an FPS that was impregnated by an RPG with a rusty instrument -- had an impressive October debut, taking third place in the October NPD results with ov... Pitchford: id and Crytek are 'risking failure' 45 Randy "Savage" Pitchford is at it again. The outspoken Gearbox Software president has moved on from criticizing Valve and is now focusing on id Software and Crytek, two of the biggest PC develope... Pitchford talks Borderlands' level cap, DLC, and more 25 There's an interview with Gearbox's Randy Pitchford up on Game Informer an--actually, it's not so much an interview as it is him telling us everything we want to hear and so much more. Seriously.... Borderlands 2: Hey, it could happen 36 At various points during the later stages of Borderlands I found myself thinking about the possibilities of a sequel, hoping that the game sold well enough to warrant a follow-up. The fact that I... Borderlands 'Zombie Island' DLC launches November 24 38 Played Borderlands to your heart's content? Scavenged all the guns and killed all the Skags? Gearbox Software has you covered. Zombie Island is ready to be unlocked in just a matter of days, as t... Cliffy B: Borderlands is the Diablo of the FPS generation 57 You know who likes Borderlands? Clifford Bleszinski! The Epic Games designer has spoken incredibly highly of Gearbox Software's "roleplaying shooter," going so far as to compare it with the class... Pitchford: Valve are childish fanboys that bash the PS3 107 Mad Randy's at it again! Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford, after implying that Valve's Steam service is a conflict of interest, has criticized Valve once more, this time because the studio d... Borderlands console patches going live soon ... real soon 35 It's a real bummer that some people are experiencing a wide variety of technical issues with Borderlands on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. I was lucky enough to not run into any of them, but fr... Gearbox XBLA project not an official Gearbox thing 4 According to Gearbox Studio’s Zach Ford, the studio isn’t working on an Xbox LIVE Arcade downloadable as we cautiously reported previously.And he would know -- he's the guy who got us... Rumor: Gearbox working on Xbox Live Arcade game 15 Twitter appears to be the glass house of the Internet, and the latest to casually throw the gossip stone is a Gearbox Software level designer who has been heavily indicating that the Texas studio... Borderlands trade system may change if people want it to 48 Gearbox Studios isn’t opposed to changing the way people exchange loot in the fascinating RPS, Borderlands. The catch is that the crew behind the game will move in whatever direction the co... Gearbox and Rebellion have friendly Aliens rivalry 17 It must be odd for two studios to be working on the same game license simultaneously, but that's the situation Gearbox Software and Rebellion find themselves in. Both studios are creating their o... Ice-T thinks this Borderlands 'sh*t is sick' 43 On October 21, actor/rapper/pimp Ice-T picked up a copy of Borderlands. Since then, he's been a bit, shall we say... obsessed. And he's been telling all 24,000-plus of his Twitter followers."... Gearbox talks Borderlands on Wii, Claptrap side-scroller 21 A double dose of Borderlands stories does the soul some good. Not long ago, CBS 11 News got together with Gearbox Software VP Brian Martel to discuss a range of topics, all of which were rooted i... Borderlands Siren skill not working, Gearbox knows 31 It appears as if a top-tier Siren skill in Borderlands is about as useful as a Claptrap is while on its square ass, spewing sparks about and such. MTV Multiplayer points out that Phase Strike -- ... Borderlands PSN issue identified and fixed 21 Rumblings on Gearbox Software’s official message board recently indicated that there was a significant problem with the PS3 version of the game. Friends weren’t able to join other fri... Gearbox Software confirms Borderlands shortages 30 So, you remember this morning when we talked about Borderlands selling out at various stores and cynically decided it was marketing hype? Apparently the hype is justified, as Gearbox Software has... Borderlands not sent out to die, selling quite well 78 The day before its release, videogame analyst and professional blacksmith Michael Pachter accused 2K Games and Gearbox Software of sending Borderlands "out to die." He claimed that rele... Ten Minute Taste: Borderlands 60 So Gearbox Software's Borderlands is finally out, and from what I hear, it's kind of a big deal. Last I checked (that was this morning, by the way), it was the number-one-selling game on Steam, b... Borderlands getting a midnight release at 1,300 GameStops 31 Even those us of not living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area can get in on the Borderlands midnight launch madness. While the rest of us won't be able to hang with the Gearbox crew physically, we ca... Pachter: Borderlands has been 'sent to die' 119 Borderlands is out this week and the first reviews are in, after many years of development and a solid few months of hype. Despite the media and gamer buzz, however, videogame analyst Michael Pac... Review: Borderlands 102 Borderlands is almost here, and judging from the constant messages, insults, and death threats I've gotten in the last few weeks as I've been playing it on Steam, I would consider it eagerly anti... First Borderlands DLC bringing the undead to Pandora 57 In what's sure to get everyone up in arms, the first batch of downloadable content that will be made available for Borderlands has been announced... before the game has even hit store shelves.&nb... Party with Claptrap at the Borderlands Extravasplosion 17 So, Borderlands is a pretty big deal. The fact that its release is soon (next Tuesday) is probably an even bigger deal. Gearbox Software is getting ready to celebrate, and if you happen to be a T... Tripwire: Valve 'absolutely not' exploiting Steam devs 19 A few days ago, Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford antagonized a fair few people by claiming that Valve's Steam service was a conflict of interest and a money grab, essentially insinuating tha... Borderlands Steam pre-order four-pack deal is live 12 Pre-ordering a digital copy of Gearbox Studios’ Borderlands through Steam is an easy way to knock a few bucks off the purchase. Instead of dishing out about 50 hard-earned bones, eager rese... Get ready to kill things: Borderlands goes gold 33 The PC version of Borderlands was too metal (or too done) to stay in Gearbox Software’s offices. Earlier this afternoon, the studio announced that the build has joined the Xbox 360 and PS3 ... Pitchford: Easy Achievements translate to sales 31 Remember grabbing a copy of NBA 2K6 to tack a painless and extra 1,000 Gamer Points to your overall Gamer Score? You aren’t that weird for doing it. According to Randy Pitchford, significan... Randy Pitchford talks Valve, Steam, and exploitation 45 Besides being super pumped for Borderlands at all times -- which, who can blame him? -- Gearbox president and founder Randy Pitchford has a few negative things to say about Steam, the digital dow... Pre-order Borderlands from GameStop and get eight guns 27 It’s no secret that Borderlands offers players their choice of over a bajillion guns as they progress through the FPS. The game procedurally generates them, like an MMO generates swords or ... Pitchford thinks Borderlands is less dull than Fallout 3 57 V.A.T.S, maul and repeat. Bethesda did a lot of things right with Fallout 3, but one noticeable dent in the game’s power armor was the shooting mechanic. We’d say it hovered somewhere... How f'ing metal is Borderlands? 34 Metal is a lot of things. Metal is ripping off a chimera’s head and spitting down its spine hole. Metal is the swagger of a cool protagonist as he walks out of a bar full of corpses he crea... Swine flu affecting judgement, Gearbox makes wild Twitter promises 27 Want to a free copy of Borderlands? Can't help you there -- sorry! Want to play Borderlands with folks from Gearbox? That you can manage, provided you pre-order the game and prove it to the game'... Borderlands will release on Steam, have extra features 89 About an hour ago we received a tip that a couple Gearbox employees had tweeted about Borderlands coming to Steam. While many people assumed it would be inevitable, I hit up Gearbox to see if I c... Gearbox holding back Borderlands surprises, lets one slip 29 I think I speak for just about everyone on staff when I say how obsessively anxious we are for Borderlands to be released. We have already been assembling potential co-op teams, and you know what... Borderlands briefly delayed for PC 48 Gearbox's Borderlands is going to be hit with a minor delay on PC while Gearbox make some tweaks and improvements. Original scheduled for release on October 20, the excellent-looking RPG/shooter ... Claptrap channels Bale in first Borderlands short 27 In my recent preview of Borderlands, I made a few passing references to Claptrap, "a talking-robot that looks like a filthy, low-rent version of Star Wars’ R2D2 that glides on one whee... Borderlands: 'I need to find something to shoot immediately' 39 When Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford started spouting off that there were literally millions of guns in the developer’s upcoming title Borderlands, I didn’t have any reason not to bel... Gearbox 'committed' to Aliens: Colonial Marines 15 The level of quiet surrounding Aliens: Colonial Marines has been concerning, even more so since Sega stated that the game's release will depend upon how successful Aliens vs. Predator is. Gearbox... Aliens: Colonial Marines depends on success of AvP 14 Here's some marginally concerning news for anybody looking forward to Aliens: Colonial Marines. Despite being announced long before Aliens vs. Predator, Sega has now stated that the release of Ge... 2K: Borderlands can rival the biggest games this Christmas 28 Triple A titles like Modern Warfare 2 and Assassin's Creed 2 have intimidated a lot of publishers whether they want to admit it or not, and have undoubtedly forced a number of the 2010 delays we'... Borderlands DLC is coming, won't be content cut from game 17 Borderlands DLC is coming. At least two pieces of content have been confirmed by Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford, who also states that the DLC will be something we mere mortals won't expect.... GC 09: This headline is about Borderlands screenshots 20 I'm officially running out of things to say about all these Gamescom screenshots. Let's do our best, because up next is Gearbox's incredibly exciting Borderlands. The totally-not-cel-shaded rolep... Gearbox pretends Borderlands box art is like, really meta 52 Do you get it? Are you getting the thing that Gearbox has done? I really hope so, because that's the meta brilliance of the sexy Borderlands cover. The artwork, which I personally love, depicts o... Borderlands box art is seriously jawsome 51 Usually I don't like to do news posts on box art, as it seems fairly redundant. However, it's not often that you get box art as brilliant as this. This is the cover for Gearbox Software's excitin... Wanted: Two community members to play Borderlands 123 Will you be at or near QuakeCon this Friday? Do you want to play Borderlands? Are you a fine, upstanding member of the Destructoid community? If so, then Gearbox wants YOU to invade the studio he... Gearbox: PC version of Borderlands 'destroys' consoles 100 Wow ... I don't think I've seen a developer be quite so forthright in his willingness to admit that one version of a game is better than another, but Gearbox's Randy Pitchford has laid his cards ... 343 Industries: 'Gearbox is NOT working on a Halo title' 10 For awhile, rumors have been kicking around that Gearbox Software was working on an upcoming Halo title for Microsoft. While both Microsoft and Gearbox have been relatively quiet on the matter, a... Preview: Borderlands 57 It's a funny thing, Borderlands. While excitement arose during its initial 2007 announcement, it was the cel-shaded graphics that brought the game the most attention. After that, however, Borderl... 2K: Borderlands is an apple 20 I was going to write this article and focus on 2K president Christoph Hartmann's expectation that fewer AAA games will be released in 2009. However, in the same interview he discussed Borderlands... You are going to love this new Borderlands trailer 64 Let's get right to the point: Borderlands is sh*t-hot. More and more, I'm beginning to think that the game's surprise makeover was really just a clever ploy to get people to pay attention. If so,... Borderlands launching October 20th 19 Gearbox Studios’ RPS Borderlands hits store shelves on October 20th.Sure, the launch date is a frustrating FOREVER-PLUS-INFINITY (months) away from now in Standard Internet Time, but there&... Gearbox: Great things afoot for Colonial Marines 17 Gearbox may be hard at work on Borderlands, but the team hasn't forgotten that other shooter it's working on. The one involving double-mouthed, phallic-headed space-rapists. News on Aliens: Colon... Interview: Exploring Borderlands with Gearbox's Randy Pitchford 34 Speaking with Gearbox president and founder Randy Pitchford, you can tell he's genuinely excited about the studio's upcoming project, Borderlands.He feels that the game is a take on a number of g... Gearbox is the studio behind Duke Begins 11 The studio behind the recently uncovered game Duke Begins is Gearbox Software.Earlier this afternoon, Shacknews uncovered more court papers from the ongoing Take-Two versus 3D Realms legal procee... Borderlands has 'dozens and dozens and dozens of hours' of gameplay 23 2K Games pushing BioShock 2 into 2010 might have been a blow to some gamers, but don't worry -- you'll have plenty to do in another 2K-published title, Gearbox Software's Borderlands, which ships... Gearbox: How did we forget games were supposed to be fun? 19 Gearbox seems to have catapulted into the spotlight ever since it wowed the gaming world with its radical redesign to the previously obscure Borderlands. 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