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THQ bankruptcy auction nets $6.5 million for defunct publisher

Gearbox Software has emerged as the mystery party that outbid the rest for the acquisition of the Homeworld franchise at THQ’s auction. The winning $1.35m bid by the Borderlands developer won’t become official until next month if and when it receives court approval. "Gearbox Software has prevailed as the highest …

Developer to re-release original and sequel on 'leading digital platforms'

Developer Demiurge says it is 'business as usual' for the studio despite the cancellation

A wave of positivity remains after SCE promised PS4 would be open to small studios

Gearbox has revealed a new Borderlands 2 character is on its way in an upcoming DLC pack. During a SXSW panel, the developer showed off a teaser showing a silhouetted figure with devastating power. "Deep beneath Pandora, an experiment has escaped,” the teaser read. "Bandits beware, a new vault hunter …

Around 25 employees made redundant at Texas-based studio TimeGate

Quite why developers are scrapping to take credit for Aliens: Colonial Marines is a bit of a mystery. But you can understand why the world is interested. The game had immense potential and, who knows, it could still fulfil some of that by selling strongly. The TV ads are very …

This one is going to rumble on and on. A rep for developer TimeGate Studios has said on the company’s forums that the studio did as much as 50 per cent of the development spanning the entire project. I’m not really sure how much I’m allowed to say here,” the …

Gearbox did not hand over the development of Aliens: Colonial Marines’ single player mode to TimeGate, Sega has insisted. The claims arrived yesterday amidst the twitter and forum storm that followed the lifting of the review embargo for the game – that itself revealed what can best be described as …