Nintendo

Gearbox: The Wii U Will Get The Best-Looking Version Of Aliens: Colonial Marines

Nintendo has yet to release the official hardware specifications for the Wii U, and it’s something Gearbox’s Brian Burleson, senior producer on Aliens: Colonial Marines, won’t discuss directly. But, he said to Eurogamer, the Wii U will get the best-looking version of the game because it has “more modern tech”.


May 22, 2012
In Real Life

Randy Pitchford And The Perfect Shuffle

Kotaku AU

Before Randy Pitchford became the President of Gearbox studios, before he released Borderlands, before he worked on Duke Nukem 3D in the mid 90s — before all of that Randy Pitchford was a magician. A very good one. We spoke to Randy about his past, and how somehow managed to transition so seamlessly from magic to game design.


May 20, 2012
PC

Furious 4 Trademark Snafu Is Not A Sign It’s Been Cancelled, Insists Gearbox

We haven’t heard much out of Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, a game announced a year ago at E3, one that is quite a departure from the tone of other games preceding it. That, coupled with the lapsed trademarks surrounding the game, sent out the rumour that the game was cancelled.


May 19, 2012
PC

Now This Is Some Serious Borderlands 2 Loot

No, it’s not the result of a customisable weapon. It’s just 2K community manager Elizabeth Tobey‘s dachshund, Pancake. Isn’t Pancake just adorable?


PC

Borderlands 2 Loot Chest Gets You Pillaging

The team behind upcoming shooter Borderlands 2 first showed off their fancy loot chest last month at PAX East. The design came from community suggestions, made to look like the in-game loot chests, and they promised it would be filled with as-yet unannounced goodies.


May 18, 2012
Uncategorized

What’s Going On With That Crazy, Over-the-Top Brothers In Arms Game?

At last year’s E3, lots of people sat up and took notice at Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, Gearbox Studios’ radical reinvention of their earnest World War II first-person-shooter franchise.


May 5, 2012
PC

Aliens: Colonial Marines Will Change The Way We See Aliens And Alien 3

The much-hyped Ridley Scott movie Prometheus isn’t the only big Aliens-related project that might change the way we think of one of sci-fi’s best series.


May 2, 2012
In Real Life

What An Aliens Pulse Rifle Looks Like In The Real World

Gearbox, the guys making Aliens Colonial Marines, have been working on the game since, oh, before you were born. In that time, they’ve racked up a ton of reference material from James Cameron’s sci-fi classic, none as badass as this replica pulse rifle from the 1986 movie.


April 9, 2012
PC

Borderlands 2 Gets A New Character Class — But It’s DLC

In a panel at PAX East, Gearbox Software just revealed that Borderlands 2 will add a new class — the “Mechromancer”. The bad news? She’s DLC.


April 6, 2012
PC

Too Much Time And Money Can Make A Video Game Bad, Gearbox Says

What would games look like if the developers behind them had an unlimited amount of time to work on them?