‘Borderlands 4 does have some open-world-like features,’ says Gearbox, before clarifying it isn’t an open world game ‘in the traditional use of that term’

Last year, in an interview with Gamespot, Gearbox boss and professional amateur magician Randy Pitchford compared the upcoming Borderlands 4 to its predecessor. “With Borderlands 3, with the idea of going to different planets, it was more compartmentalized,” he said. “It felt a little less open and free. Borderlands 4 is the most open and…

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Roll7’s stylish skate games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome have both been delisted on Steam

Roll7, the studio behind the sidescrolling skateboard series OlliOlli, was closed down after Take-Two Interactive’s Private Division label was sold last year—announced after a lot of hemming and hawing from Take-Two’s CEO. Presumably as a consequence of that, two games Roll7 made under Private Division, OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome, have both been delisted on Steam….

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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as ‘a monopolistic crime against the consumer’

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 leaked classified documents to the press revealing the existence of an extensive US digital surveillance regime, has come out as a surprisingly scathing critic of Nvidia’s new RTX 50-series of graphics cards. “Endless next-quarter thinking has reduced the Nvidia brand to ‘F-tier value for S-tier prices,’” Snowden wrote on…

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