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Having made the headlines for suggesting that Valve’s ownership of digital distribution portal Steam lead to a conflict of interest” last year, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has moved to calm the waters surrounding his comments. Look, Valve and Gearbox have had a relationship for a long time and it’s incredible …
Read More »Gearbox: Publishers are a blessing
We’re all too used to developers bemoaning the conditions under which publishing partnerships are formed, but Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford has bucked the trend by literally saying he’d rather die than worry about the logistics of games retail. Publishers are a blessing to me,” Pitchford told MCV in an interview …
Read More »Gearbox invites ex-Pandemic staff for interviews
Creative director Mike Neumann tells axed staff: â??we'd love to have youâ??
Read More »Gearbox turned down Bladerunner IP
The potential for a modern-day game based on classic sci-fi IP Bladerunner is obvious – and such a reality very nearly came to pass, developer Gearbox has admitted. Speaking to OXM, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford admitted: One of my partners, Brian Martell, had Bladrunner on the list of IPs we …
Read More »Gearbox: Valve foolish to snub PS3
Gearbox president Randy Pitchford has dubbed Valve as foolish” for neglecting the PS3. He also questioned the development studio’s insistence on handling its own products through Steam, despite the fact it requires third-part publishers to reach retail. Speaking to Official PlayStation Magazine, he said: I noticed something on the net …
Read More »Steam branded â??exploitative money grabâ??
Steam holds a â??horrid conflict of interestsâ?, says Gearbox CEO
Read More »Gearbox offloading Heat IP
Gearbox Software has revealed that it may sell to other studios the right to develop a game based on the 1995 Michael Mann film Heat. The ten year-old Texan developer, currently at the closing stages of the Borderlands project, said it didn’t have the time resources to work on a …
Read More »Gearbox may relinquish Heat IP
Borderlands developer favours selling dormant IP as opposed to â??locking it down'
Read More »Gearbox developing Halo 4?
In what could be the biggest development surprise for quite some time, the Halo rumour mill has suddenly turned its attention to Texan developer Gearbox who many now believe is already working on Halo 4 for Xbox 360. When asked by Eurogamer whether one of its unannounced titles is indeed …
Read More »Borderlandsâ?? lighter style explained
Gearboxâ??s Mike Neumann wants to get back to basics
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