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Embracer Sells Borderlands Maker Gearbox For Less Than Half Of What It Paid
28.3.2024
Another company has escaped the gaping, acquisition-hungry maw that is publisher Embracer Group, as Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has been sold to Take-Two Interactive. This lines up with Kotaku’s previous reporting on the matter in February, in which sources told us Gearbox was nearing...
Painful Cuts At PlayStation, A Big Pokémon Reveal, And More Of The Week's Top News
2.3.2024
This week was marked by more inescapable upheaval on the gaming landscape, as PlayStation announced massive cuts across its studios and canceled some games in development. But there was some lighthearted fun to be had as well, with Hideo Kojima sharing his amusing reaction to Oscar Isaac’s...
Sources: Borderlands Studio Will Escape The Most Divisive Company In Gaming
29.2.2024
Embracer bought Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.2 billion back in early 2021 amid an unprecedented acquisition spree that’s since turned into a financial disaster. Now, just three years later, Kotaku has learned that Gearbox is closer than ever to being sold out from under what...
Embracer Cancelled Nearly 30 Unannounced Games In Just 6 Months
15.2.2024
Embracer Group, the proverbial grim reaper of video game acquisitions, has been wreaking havoc on the studios and IP it has acquired in the past few years. From layoffs across several companies to shutting down of beloved studios like Saints Row developer Volition, and cancellations of...
Gearbox Is Reviving A Dead Hero Shooter For 3 Days (No, Not Battleborn)
4.10.2023
You remember Gigantic, don’t you? The hero shooter from Motiga that was released in 2017 and, uh, died a year later? Well no worries if not, because Gearbox is bringing the ill-fated hero shooter back for a limited-time event from October 5 to 7, 2023. Read more
Borderlands Dev Gearbox Might Be Getting Sold Off Soon
11.9.2023
Gearbox Software, the studio most well-known for the Borderlands franchise, is reportedly up for sale as parent company Embracer Group considers options to “shore up its finances,” according to a September 11 Reuters report.Read more
Borderlands Collection Includes 6 Games For Cheap, With Borderlands 3 Coming To Switch
31.8.2023
Gearbox Entertainment loves bundles, so naturally it just announced Borderlands Collection: Pandora’s Box, which combines every game in the loot shooter series except for last year’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. It’ll be available on every console except Switch, which is getting a separate port of just...
Report: Embracer's $2 Billion Deal That Blew Up Was With Saudi Arabia
14.8.2023
Embracer Group, the Swedish holding company that’s been buying up everything from Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment to the rights to The Lord of the Rings, saw its stock plummet earlier this year when a mystery $2 billion deal collapsed at the last minute. Axios now reports that the partner...
Final Fantasy XVI's Menu Screen Does Something Ridiculously Neat
15.6.2023
Final Fantasy XVI doesn’t hit PlayStation 5 until June 22, but players have already gotten a chance to check out the Game of Thrones-influenced action-RPG early thanks to a two-hour demo on the PlayStation Store. It’s excellent, and also reveals some cool features I hadn’t been aware of before....
Overwatch 2’s D.Va Shoots To The Top Of Pornhub Searches
10.10.2022
Now that we’re in week two of Overwatch 2’s launch, the hero shooter is at the top of search bars in more ways than one. While most players are inquiring whether or not Blizzard has resolved its many issues, others are searching for Pornhub for its mech-wielding character, D.Va, en masse. Read more
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Was So Successful, Gearbox Is Turning It Into A Franchise
22.9.2022
Released earlier this year, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands has proven to be a big success for Gearbox and 2K. In fact, it did so well that Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford confirmed that the Borderlands spin-off is now the start of a brand new franchise, with more Wonderlands content to come in the future.Read...
Oh God, Ew, Randy Pitchford Wants You To Buy His Used Shirts
5.9.2022
You know how amateur magician and some-time Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford wears awful shirts? Well, the Borderlands boss has chanced upon this idea to auction off his old, used clothing to aid a charity. Which charity? No clue. Because this is the timeline we deserve.Read more
New Tales From The Borderlands Out In October With New Characters, Story, Ex-Telltale Devs
23.8.2022
Fun fact about Borderlands fans: We could always use some morederlands. Good news, then, seeing as Gearbox revealed what’s next for the long-running series of loot shooters at today’s kickoff event for Gamescom: The sequel for Tales From the Borderlands is out October 21, 2022, for consoles...
The Best And Worst Parts About Every Borderlands Game
5.8.2022
We at Kotaku have long been in the habit of ranking all the games worst-to-best in a major series, whether it’s Pokémon or Halo or Assassin’s Creed. At a glance, it’s possible to read those posts as reductive. Most every game has at least one redeeming quality. On the other hand, every “perfect”...
Gearbox Closing Forums, Moving To Discord
21.7.2022
Gearbox just announced that the company will soon be closing down its discussion forums, and encouraging all users to instead migrate to using individual game Discords for their community needs. I am once again here to say this is a very stupid idea.Read more
Night In The Woods Featured In Amazing Pride Demonstration
30.6.2022
The Portland Timbers beat Houston Dynamo 2-1 last night, but the coolest moment came before the match even started when giant banners in the stands were raised to reveal an unflinching Pride display with an unlikely messenger: Mae Borowski from Night in the Woods. It was one of the best video game...
Sorry, But Hollywood Is Making A Duke Nukem Movie
11.6.2022
I hate to ruin your Friday right as the weekend is starting, but I bring some troubling news from the land of Hollyweird. It seems the creative folks behind Cobra Kai, the Karate Kid revival, have decided they want to make a movie, a full-length film, based on the once-popular ‘90s first-person...
Borderlands 3 (And Its Billions Of Guns) Is Currently Free To Download On PC
19.5.2022
This week is the start of the Epic Game Store’s annual “Mega Sale,” and as the name implies, there are currently a massive number of games on sale. But while there are a bunch of games available for cheap, Epic is planning to give away a couple games for free, too. First up: Borderlands 3 from...
Every Borderlands Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
19.5.2022
Once upon a time, it seemed like Borderlands could’ve been just a fad. But between the hot new game, the hotly anticipated upcoming game, and the forthcoming silver screen treatment, it’s safe to say Borderlands is having its biggest year ever. The series is now cemented in video game canon....
Tomb Raider's New Owners Have Been Snatching Up Old Series For Years Now
2.5.2022
The video game industry is undergoing a tidal wave of consolidation right now, and Swedish holding company Embracer Group is riding it to become one of the newest players in a rapidly shrinking space. A few years ago most people had never heard of it. Now it’s bigger than rivals like Ubisoft...