‘Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers’ is Randy Pitchford’s tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: ‘If you’re trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower’s motor, you’re going to be disappointed’

Borderlands 4 is here, and Borderlands 4 is very demanding. This we know, after a launch last week mired in optimisation complaints, stuttering woes, and crashes. In response, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has been busy batting off critique regarding the game’s performance on his X account over the weekend—although his comments don’t appear to have…

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Rockstar is already calling GTA 6 ‘the largest game launch in history’ 7 months out from release, counting a few hundred million chickens before they’ve hatched

Quick, name the biggest videogame launch of all time. Minecraft? Black Ops? One of them there Mario Karts? Wrong answers, all. It’s obviously Grand Theft Auto 6. What do you mean it’s not out yet? What’s that got to do with anything? That’s what Rockstar thinks, anyway. The studio’s been spotted (by The GTA Base…

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‘Because no one was paying attention we could just put anything into the game,’ says the writer responsible for sneaking The Lusty Argonian Maid into Morrowind

Filmdeg Miniatures is a YouTube channel run by Tom Evans that is full of interviews with gaming luminaries. I know it mainly for unearthing Warhammer history on topics like the early editions of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Evans also covers videogames, most recently in an eight-hour oral history of Morrowind in which he lets a host…

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In a week dominated by Silksong and Borderlands, co-op roguelike Shape of Dreams still managed to launch on Steam as an instant top-seller

Indie roguelike Shape of Dreams sold over 100,000 copies within its first 24 hours on sale on Steam this weekend, marking an exciting start for the new co-op roguelike, despite having its release squeezed between heavy hitters Hollow Knight: Silksong and Borderlands 4. It peaked at over 30,000 concurrent players on Steam and even popped…

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