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Borderlands 4 could have looked very different – the OG RPG initially had realistic visuals that were too similar to Fallout 3, so Gearbox "rebuilt the whole game" after 2 weeks of experimenting led to its iconic comic style
News Gearbox was "already taking every risk," but decided to "do what our heart says is right"
"We tend to commit to the bit": Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford talks Borderlands 4, the evolution of looter-shooters, and $80 game discourse
Interview Gamescom 2025 | Randy Pitchford tells us how Gearbox went from seeing the industry predict that Borderlands "would find no audience, to being one of the leading video game franchises in the world"
Borderlands 4 can't even win in its own ads, as WWE has cosplaying wrestlers take the L in their own championship match
News It was to harness a brutal side of themselves, as "Borderlands is an incredibly violent game," definitely not next-level product placement
Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says "Nintendo just had the most successful new console launch in the history of video game consoles" with the Switch 2, so of course he wants to "bring more games to it"
News "The Nintendo Switch 2 is an awesome, awesome machine"
Borderlands 4 endgame and post-launch roadmap revealed: You can start new characters at level 30 after beating the campaign, there are weekly challenges, and the first story pack is "cosmic horror" with "a bloodier, darker tone"
news The first few months of post-launch Borderlands 4 updates include a revamped Ultimate Vault Hunter mode, "Weekly Wildcard" missions, and much more
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford feels like "we're just getting started" with Borderlands spin-off Tiny Tina's Wonderlands: "I would bet that we are going to spend more time on that"
News Gearbox has "a whole team of people that love fantasy"
Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford admits Borderlands has gone "too far" in the past, but promises Borderlands 4 has hit the sweet spot
news We're in the Goldilocks zone now
Borderlands 4 writers say the previous game "sometimes felt like parody," and while there's at least one meme in the new loot shooter "it does not involve a Skibidi Toilet"
News "If I tried to put a meme in the game, he would come to my house with a baseball bat"
Randy Pitchford says Borderlands 4 finally exists in a world where technology "caught up to the ambition of what our game is" and praises the '80s double-jump: "Where in the rules of physics can I leap into the air and, out of mid-air, jump again?"
News Technology has come a long way since the OG Borderlands
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
