It seems that some lucky gamers were able to get their hands on a copy of Borderlands before ahead of its October 27th street date. But for those of you who weren’t able to get their hands on a prerelease copy, don’t’ be discouraged as reports are popping up that the game won’t even be playable until October 26th, singleplayer included.

But what gives? Well it seems that 2K Games wants everyone to wait until the game is available to everyone but it has left some gamers unhappy. One German gamer sent the following tweet to Gearbox:

I own a legal PC-copy of Borderlands, and we can’t even play the Singleplayer cause of the shitty Securom-protection

But honestly though, is it really Gearbox’s fault that retailers are breaking the street date? Just be patient, wait it out and everything will be fine, I promise.

via kotaku

Now Randy Pitchford, Gearbox boss, has stated in an interview with Maximum PC that “Valve is taking a larger share than it should for the service it’s providing. It’s exploiting a lot of small guys.”. Another point Pitchford made, is that Valve is in essence, a competitor, which owns the platform the competing developers are publishing on. He suggests that Valve simply spin off Steam into a separate company, thereby removing the obvious conflict of interest.

Bungie is known for their extremely popular Halo franchise and Infinity Ward is known for the extremely popular Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and upcoming Modern Warfare 2. It’s pretty much always been like that and it will probably always going to be like that. I can’t complain because they are great games.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, however, can’t say the same:

“I keep waiting to hear what Bungie is going to do that’s not Halo. Same with Infinity Ward. It’s like, dude I’m totally psyched to get my Call of Duty fix every year, but you guys are amazing! What else have you got? Can you give me something I haven’t seen before?”

You know what, Mr. Pitchford, I agree with you. Bungie and Infinity Ward is full of extremely talented developers so why not let them get their hands on something that isn’t their flagship title. Only good would come from that, right?

Read (Joystiq) ]]> http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/06/22/gearbox-ceo-wants-innovation-out-of-bungie-infinity-ward-too/feed/ 1 http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/06/16/alien-rpg-still-gestating-to-burst-forth-at-undetermined-time/ http://www.digitalbattle.com/2009/06/16/alien-rpg-still-gestating-to-burst-forth-at-undetermined-time/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:50:51 +0000 Will Prusik http://www.digitalbattle.com/?p=24190 Despite the fact that the Alien and Predator franchises have been plagued by uninspired andpoorly executed films, the true potential of the series have been realized in a handful of exceedingly well-crafted video games. SEGA was stepping up with the noble intent of taking the bad taste of AVP: Requiem out of our mouths with a trio of titles.

Reports from SEGA suggested that Gearbox’s Colonial Marines and Obsidian’s as yet untitled Alien RPG were placed on indefinite hold in February, but it seems that hope might not be so grim. The newest Alien vs Predator game was the only title of the three to be shown at E3 this year, but reportedly that’s only because it’s the first title to be released and more news regarding the other two games will be forthcoming.

This is definitely some good news for Alien fans as Colonial Marines looked like a stunning game and the prospect of an Alien game that isn’t an FPS is quite exciting.

The image is said to be completely in-game by the studio. The game is being powered by Unreal Engine 3. It is being developed for release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 later this year.

"The image is an in-game screenshot with no post process," stated Gearbox.

The game blends gunplay with traditional RPG mechanics and is slated for release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 before the end of the year.

If you want to know more about the new style, you’ll have to wait till Monday, as their website teases of “more” information on that particular day.

"I think you’ll see something this year,” he said. “But I don’t know when. [Laughs] We’re crafting plans right now.”

He also talked about the delays to Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway and the studio’s heavy development schedule.

Missed the onslaught of World War II games? Missed shooting the shit out of Nazi soldiers? Then get your game on by downloading the playable demo of Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway, Gearbox’s recently released tactical action game sequel.

The demo is available in all regions except Asia and Germany (something to do with Nazis?). It clocks in at a 1.32GB download.

Hell’s Highway is now available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

The publisher also noted that the PC version will be released later. While the console editions have gone gold and entered the manufacturing phase, the PC version will be released later on October 1. No reason was given for the delay of the PC release.

The songs will be “Mambo Mambo” by Lou Bega, “I Want Candy” by Bow Wow Wow and “Are You Going to be My Girl” by Jet. No pricing information was disclosed.