Battleborn, Gearbox’s oft-forgotten stab at the hero shooter genre, will be shut down in January 2021, publisher 2K announced (opens in new tab) today. The game has already been removed from digital stores as of this writing, and 2K says it’s “now in the process of gradually sunsetting the game …
Read More »Report: Battleborn to follow Evolves lead and go free-to-play
Gearbox’s good-but-commercially-unremarkable hero shooter Battleborn (opens in new tab) will be going free-to-play soon, an anonymous source has reportedly told Kotaku (opens in new tab). The game, which drew comparisons to Blizzard’s Overwatch (some fair, some I would say less so), launched with a $60 pricetag on May 3 of …
Read More »Battleborn season pass detailed, contains story missions and special skins
Battleborn (opens in new tab) will have a roster of 25 playable heroes when it launches for Xbox One, PS4, and PC on May 3, but be prepared for that number to swell to 30 post-launch. Developer Gearbox has detailed (opens in new tab) its plans for Battleborn DLC, and …
Read More »How to make Battleborn pretty
If there’s one thing Gearbox does better than anyone else, it’s building RPG-shooters that look like they’ve jumped straight out of a comic book. Borderlands has become the studio’s international calling card, so if you’re going to build another IP that involves co-operative shooting in a cartoon setting, how do …
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