Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox Software, is winding people up about Borderlands 3 on Twitter again. Maybe this time it will be different, though.
Remember that time when Randy Pitchford showed off some custom cel-shading technology, during a GDC 2017 talk, that definitely wasn’t pre-alpha footage of Borderlands 3?
And then there was that time when he was photographed in the motion capture studio, recording some performance for a “psycho bandit” character that definitely wasn’t for Borderlands 3?
Well, now he’s at it again. We mean, he’s up to something, at any rate.
First of all, he tweeted this:
My To Do list today has just 3 things on it. But I also have 3 meetings scheduled before 3pm. Is the universe telling me something?
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) November 29, 2018
And then this:
Fun fact – Today is day number 334 (number of days that have elapsed in the year). Yesterday was 333. It’s really interesting how human minds take so much meaning in arbitrary numbering systems and coincidence. People will lose their minds when the calendar flips to year 3000.
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) November 30, 2018
And finally, this:
Feels like E3 all over again…
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) November 30, 2018
That’s a lot of threes, which means one of two things:
The first possibility is that Randy is getting ready to drop a proper Borderlands 3 announcement. This could very well be at The Game Awards 2018, especially since Geoff Keighley has teased 10 new game announcements – including this one from Obsidian for something called Project Indiana – for the evening of the show.
The second – very real – possibility is that Randy is still just winding us all up about Borderlands 3. That’s entirely possible. It wouldn’t be the first time he’s done it.
But given the less-than-stellar reception to Fallout 76 and its lurch from narrative to MMO, isn’t the world just crying out for a proper post-apocalyptic RPG shooter that you can also play with your friends? We hope it’s the latter.
