In Real Life

At Age 29, A Game Developer Must Battle Back From A Stroke

When he got the vision floater in his right eye that morning at work, Mikey Neumann figured in the next 30 minutes he’d be asking someone to drive him home so he could fight off a migraine. But the walloping headache never came.


June 9, 2011
News

Furious 4 Is More Like Inglorious Borderlands

Face it: A shooter set in World War II is going to be called derivative of something, and as a sequel, it’ll probably be called derivative of itself. But what Brothers In Arms: Furious 4 most resembles is not the 2009 film Inglorious Basterds, to which everyone connected the game after Ubisoft revealed it on Monday. Furious 4‘s loudest echoes come from Gearbox’s co-operative shooter smash, Borderlands.


November 25, 2010

Borderlands Writers Play A Bloody Game Of Catan

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December 9, 2009
News

Trophy List Hints At More DLC Coming For Borderlands

Gearbox creative dude Mikey Neumann twitter-teased some sort of announcement yesterday that had to get pulled back, but it looks like PS3Trophies.org stole the show. Four new trophies tip off some coliseum-based DLC in the works.


October 23, 2009

Borderlands’ Creative Boss Lives Up To His Loot Promises

“I’m asking for a quick invite, to drop you some loot,” said the voice message at 1pm. “You were on my list; I have to cross you off.” It was Mikey Neumann, the Gearbox Software creative director.