Tag Archives: gearbox software

Tue, Mar 26, 2013 | 11:57 GMT

Borderlands 2 title update expands inventory, more

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Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox Software has outlined a new title update for its RPG-shooter that expands your vault hunter’s inventory.

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Sun, Mar 24, 2013 | 23:16 GMT

Borderlands 2: level cap raise inbound, story DLC teased, and more from PAX East

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Gearbox has detailed another piece of Season Pass DLC for Borderlands 2, along with some other upcoming updates, promising a new weapon tier, a second new game plus mode, a level cap increase and even more DLC to come.

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Sun, Mar 24, 2013 | 23:17 GMT

Borderlands 2′s next DLC character is a Psycho Bandit

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Woah, now here’s a thing – Borderland 2′s sixth vault hunter is a playable version of one of the franchise’s most recognisable enemies, the Psycho Bandit.

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Thu, Mar 21, 2013 | 11:13 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines patched again on PS3, Xbox 360

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Aliens: Colonial Marines has received another patch on PS3 and Xbox 360. This time the update fixes odd animations, multiplayer bugs and other weird goings on.

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Tue, Mar 19, 2013 | 12:24 GMT

Borderlands animated short in production through 2K Games student scheme

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Borderlands will be turned into an animated short film as part of a collaboration between 2K Games, Gearbox Software and students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 | 22:47 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines gets 4GB PC update with improved textures

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Gearbox Software has released a whopping patch for the PC Version of Aliens: Colonial Marines, adding a visual upgrade among other fixes.

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Fri, Mar 08, 2013 | 00:50 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Xbox 360 patched, PC and PS3 to follow

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Gearbox Software has issued an update for Aliens: Colonial Marines, packed to the brim with bug fixes.

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Tue, Feb 26, 2013 | 10:18 GMT

Borderlands 2: new character & DLC being worked on now

Borderlands 2 will get new character DLC and a level cap raise soon, according to Gearbox Software head Randy Pitchford.

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Tue, Feb 26, 2013 | 00:33 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines made in just nine months – rumour

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Aliens: Colonial Marines spent four years in stasis at Gearbox; two years in development at TimeGate; and nine months being hastily turned into a working game, anonymous sources have claimed.

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Sun, Feb 24, 2013 | 23:24 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines – Gearbox “stole”, says alleged Sega staffer

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Aliens: Colonial Marines was the vehicle through which Gearbox Software “embezzeled” funds from Sega to make Borderlands 2 and Duke Nukem Forever, a purported Sega insider has claimed.

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Thu, Feb 21, 2013 | 22:08 GMT

TimeGate résumés give insight into just how much they did on Aliens: Colonial Marines

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Jim Sterling, with help from some civilians, has pulled up the résumés of some folks at TimeGate studio that describe the kind of work they did on Colonial Marines.
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Tue, Feb 19, 2013 | 19:25 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines demo comparisons raise eyebrows [Update]

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Aliens: Colonial Marines bears little resemblance to video walkthroughs shown well before the game’s release, and Randy Pitchford has commented on the matter.

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Mon, Feb 18, 2013 | 22:10 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines modders working to improve Gearbox’s shooter

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Modders and power users have begun finding way to improve the Aliens: Colonial Marines experience on PC. Check out this Steam community post for an example of how far hobbyists have already gone in tweaking the game’s aesthetics; it’s expected that more weighty mods will follow shortly. Aliens: Colonial Marines released to a very poor critical reception and questions have been asked about its drawn-out development cycle.

Thanks, CVG.

Thu, Feb 14, 2013 | 13:34 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U hasn’t been cancelled, says Sega

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Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U was rumoured to be cancelled, following a rumour sparked by a Kotaku writer. Today, Sega’s UK team has stated that this isn’t true.

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Wed, Feb 13, 2013 | 12:43 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines hits PSN at 20% off for Plus members

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Aliens: Colonial Marines received a barrage of poor scores from the gaming press yesterday – you can check out our my appraisal here. But the game has now launched on PSN with a discount. Would you consider it on the cheap?

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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 | 20:56 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines development “absolutely not” outsourced, says SEGA

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Aliens: Colonial Marines is the talk of the town today, thanks to a run of poor review scores, and an ex-Gearbox employee claiming that the lion’s share of the game wasn’t developed by Gearbox Studios, but Section 8 team TimeGate Studios. SEGA has emphatically denied the claim, and during a DICE talk, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford even revealed the studios which helped the firm develop the game.

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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 | 13:30 GMT

Aliens Colonial Marines: buggy hunt

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Aliens: Colonial Marines launches today. Dave Cook returns to LV-426 to find out if Gearbox Software’s shooter has been worth the long wait.

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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 | 13:05 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines reviews begin, get the scores here

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Aliens: Colonial Marines reviews have landed. Get all of the scores as they happen below.

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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 | 02:51 GMT

Brothers in Arms: “authentic” title on the way, says Pitchford

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Brothers in Arms isn’t dead, Randy Pitchford has said, with a new, “authentic” game in the very, very early stages. – but usual publisher Ubisoft has bowed out of the picture.

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Mon, Feb 11, 2013 | 23:56 GMT

Aliens: Colonial Marines AU, NZ Steam issue believed resolved

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A “missing executable” error with the Steam version of Aliens: Colonial Marines affecting Australia and New Zealand seems to have been fixed.

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