Most single player games put a lone character against an army that is just standing around waiting for the player to show up and defeat them.
In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.
Teamwork is a significant part of 'Counter-Strike: Condition Zero' and many of the secondary objectives require you to effectively work with your squad.
We decided we were going to do more 'Brothers In Arms,' and we were also going to create something original that no one else was doing, and that's what led to 'Borderlands.'
I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.
We're trending towards the holodeck. Eventually we'll have a system that's indistinguishable from reality.
When you think of what 'Borderlands 3' should be, it should be massive. It should be bigger and better than 'Borderlands 2.' It should carry forward the story.
I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a sand skiff.
One of the things I wish Sony would do is get behind 'Borderlands,' because I'd love to see a Vita version of the game.
We are fortunate that there is a lot of demand on us to deliver our brand of interactive entertainment within the powerful franchises we have at Gearbox Software and the challenge for us is growing to meet this demand.
PAX is not a show about retailers, not a show about journalists. It's about players.
The mission of Gearbox is to entertain the world and with the record-breaking success of 'Borderlands 3,' we're excited to take one more giant leap down that road.
Borderlands' asks you to pick a class, and once you've chosen that character class, you've committed yourself to that game session.
In 'Colonial Marines' you come into the game as a marine, and how you play depends on your equipment and by the choices you're making in real time.
I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.
You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.
Wired gave 'Duke Nukem Forever' the first Vaporware Award, and then the next year it won No. 1 vaporware again, and then again and again until Wired decided, you know what? 'Duke Nukem' is just going to get the lifetime achievement award for vaporware.
Duke Nukem' helped bridge the gap between games designed for adults and what they wanted in their entertainment as adults who also wanted to have fun. 'Duke Nukem' bridged that gap and helped bring those things together. It's one of the reasons it succeeded at the time.
The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.'
I've got a 6,000 square-foot home in Plano that probably costs as much as a three-bedroom house in Van Nuys.
