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Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says the game industry once expected a genre experiment like Borderlands to "die," but it actually became "one of the leading video game franchises in the world": "It's kind of humbling"
News "We are always exploring the boundaries"
"You have a dodge, people are like, 'Ah, that's a Soulslike'": Silent Hill f leads "disagree" melee combat makes it a Soulslike, say "the most authentic" way to play is story mode
News Chill, bro, it's just action-horror
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says "I think they could charge $200" for Borderlands 4, "you can't find a better value in the world for any type of entertainment," then adds: "I wish they'd give it away, because then everyone would play it"
News You might worry about pricing, but Randy Pitchford won't
As Anthem faces shutdown amid Stop Killing Games movement, producer says maybe we want to "sacrifice some things in order to get it so that games don't just vanish one day"
News "I do believe in game preservation, and we're losing a lot of stuff right now"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 leaves CD Projekt Red co-CEO "absolutely blown away," even if he has "sadly" not beaten the French JRPG's toughest challenge
News Michał Nowakowski says the Clair Obscur devs "should be proud of the story they portrayed"
Pokemon Champions is replacing Scarlet and Violet as the new place for official VGC tournaments, with devs calling the spiritual Stadium successor "the one-stop shop for everyone interested in Pokemon battles"
News This could be fantastic news even for casual players
Pokemon Legends: Z-A introduces chaotic 4-player battles that play out in real time, making up for Legends: Arceus ditching multiplayer fights entirely
News You can play in a Ranked mode against randoms, or privately with friends
Baldur's Gate 3 performance director praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for being a "beautiful" RPG "that 100% knows what it is"
News He's not wrong
Fallout: New Vegas fans don't have a remake, but they have claimed Goodsprings, Nevada, on viral app of the moment Wplace: "Everyone liked that"
News The place is essentially being turned into a massive New Vegas mural
After working on an indie between Cyberpunk 2077 and a new vampire RPG from The Witcher 3 leads, veteran writer says indies have more "constraints" than AAA, but that makes them even more "original and unique"
News Where "AAA games are like blockbuster movies," indies "are more like a theater," says Jakub Szamałek
New Elden Ring Nightreign Everdark boss is all about balance, so it only seems right the Soulslike community is perfectly split on the fight: "This is what he would've wanted"
News Everdark Sovereign Libra is no joke
Borderlands 4 designer points to Baldur's Gate 3 as an RPG inspiration for Gearbox's new and improved buildcrafting: "I want to hit the end game and be doing billions of damage"
News Gearbox says you can use Borderlands 4's characters "in a bunch of different ways"
Battlefield 6 "offers things that no one else really can," says series lead, so it's not a major Call of Duty rival even if one ex-Blizzard boss is rooting for it to "boot stomp" Black Ops 7
News He thinks Battlefield and Call of Duty "compliment each other in different ways"
GTA 5 sleuths finally work out the infamous Mount Chiliad mystery after 12 years in the most anticlimatic way possible, right before GTA 6 likely gives them another mystery to solve
News Theorists may have been chasing a mystery they already solved for years
Battlefield 6's second beta weekend opens to DLSS and matchmaking issues as 270,000 concurrent players cram through the door on Steam alone, but EA is "actively" working towards a solution
News "Hang tight while we dig into this!"
Dragon Age: Origins was "intended as a standalone game" rather than the first in a series of RPGs, former dev says, meaning BioWare left "a lot of threads" it wasn't expecting to "come back to"
News Some of those threads "kind of had to be abandoned," says Mark Darrah
Baldur's Gate 3 fans can expect more "premium games" from the D&D license holder going forward, but it won't rely solely on veteran devs, and will instead "make some bets on up-and-coming talent"
News Wizards of the Coast is "going to do some experimental stuff"
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says Wolfenstein 3D and Diablo influenced the OG Borderlands as the devs aimed to "blend the moment-to-moment fun of a shooter" with the satisfaction of progression
News Wolfenstein helped Randy Pitchford "find a thrill and a joy in action games"
Helldivers 2 grunts think they've found more evidence of a Halo crossover thanks to a very familiar "unknown signal" detected by the Galactic Warning System: "Is that... THE SUPERINTENDENT?"
News The timing would make a lot of sense with the upcoming Xbox release
God of War 3 and Star Wars Jedi director is making a D&D game because his new studio wanted to "sink our teeth into something that's legendary, that's mythical"
News Stig Asmussen says "the decision to go with D&D wasn't very difficult"
"Of course" Baldur's Gate 4 is going to happen, Wizards of the Coast boss says, but that's not the D&D game Star Wars Jedi and God of War 3's director is working on
News "This is not the successor to that game"
Battlefield 6's first open-beta weekend had plenty of cheaters, but the "most locked-in catgirl" VTuber insists she wasn't one of them after playing "even better" with a handcam
News "Everyone still doubting me, cope and seethe"
Hytale co-founder has "made my final counter offer" to Riot in what's "the ONLY chance" to see the canceled sandbox RPG return, and he's feeling "optimistic"
News He claims "the offer is 10x what the true market value is"
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is "a strong signal" that players don't just want live-service games, BioWare veteran says, but GTA 6's success will be a real indicator of the industry
News "If GTA 6 doesn't sell 70, 80 million copies or whatever GTA 5 sold, then that's going to signal something"
As the industry waits for GTA 6 to land like a meteor, analyst highlights the widening gap in games: "The winners are winning bigger, and everyone else is scrambling for a smaller piece of the pie"
News "That available pie for those titles and services that aren't the biggest in the market, that pie is shrinking"
