The CEO of Gearbox Entertainment, Randy Pitchford, will be stepping down as President of gearbox software, and moving over to the newly formed film and TV portion of the company, Gearbox Studios. He is handing the reigns over to former CTO Steve Jones. Jones has worked at Gearbox for the last 22 years and served as Technical director on the first two “Borderlands” games.

While with Gearbox Studios, Randy will be overseeing the development of the upcoming Borderlands movie. Despite this, Randy has said that he will continue to give his “institutional knowledge of Gearbox brands and franchises”

Earlier this year, Gearbox was acquired by the embracer group, (who also own 3D realms, the original creators of the duke Nukem franchise currently owned by gearbox) in a deal worth 1.3 billion. At the time, Randy Pitchford told Gamesindustry.biz that it was “like a rocket booster” for his company’s ambitions.

The company is now split into 3 sections, Gearbox software, gearbox studios and gearbox Publishing, with the latter being headed by Steve Gibson.

Randy Pitchford got his start in the games industry at 3D Realms in Texas back in the 90s, where he worked as a level designer on numerous classic FPS games for the Build Engine, such as Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. In 1997, he left 3D Realms and went to work at Rebel Rocket on the game “Prax War”, but Publisher EA pulled the funding in 1999 and Randy left Rebel Rocket to found Gearbox Software.

Gearbox would then go on to produce 3 expansion packs for Valves “Half-Life”, released as “Half-Life: Opposing Force”, “Half-Life: Decay” and “Half-Life: Blue shift”. After this, Gearbox would come to be best known for Developing and releasing the celebrated Borderlands series, the first entry of which sold 4.5 million copies.
The studio has also had some controversy. In quick succession Gearbox released the much Maligned “Duke Nukem Forever ” and “Aliens: Colonial Marines ” which were received incredibly poorly. This pales, however, to the 2018 Litigation against Pitchford over him allegedly leaving a USB stick containing company records and an adult video at a medieval themed restaurant. The Litigation was settled out of court and Randy Pitchford was exonerated.

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 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
Two investigative gamers find separate loot caves offering bounty and XP in the 2K game!

The game has only been out a couple of days in America and already we have ourselves a discovery!

The detection of these loot caves are inspired by the various loot caves exploits found in Activision’s similarly styled RPG-shooter Destiny. 

A YouTuber, who goes my the name of “Deathmule”, has discovered a loot cave which can be found on the mission “Let’s Build a Robot Army”.One challenge in particular is to set up turrets to mow down an constant spawning gang of enemies yet, if players dispatch these enemies before the turrets do, they are rewarded with a trove of dropped riches.

Once the mission ends, according to Kotaku, the cave will become inaccessible. This means that the players will have to keep quitting the mission in order to keep the exploit open. 

The Second loot cave was found by a YouTuber who goes by the name of “JHFLEETING” , who discovered the cave later on in the game in the mission “Guardian Hunter”. The challenge here is to capture a guardian fire wraith and, if the player is killed instead, the game re-spawns them. Players can boost their experience badass rank through this because of the speed that they re-spawn at.

“Repetition and a lackluster story are its biggest shortcomings, but Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel is different enough to separate itself from the shadows of its older siblings,” wrote the game’s critic Cameron Woolsey.

You can check out these loot cave finds by Deathmule HERE and by JHFLEETING HERE.

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