The Borderlands movie would have arguably been a huge flop, but Gearbox games are experiencing a major resurgence following the film’s disappointing release.
The Borderlands movie came out last week and, spoiler alert, it’s not great. Our Borderlands review criticized it as “a frenetic, messy crisis that players will probably hate,” and gave it just two stars. Other critics didn’t like it either: at one point, the Borderlands movie earned a staggering 0% approval score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics.
Despite this stench, it’s not all bad news for Gearbox, developer of the Borderlands games. It turns out that the raider shooter series is making a bit of a resurgence on Steam in the wake of the Borderlands movie, and I can only assume it’s because moviegoers wanted to see if the series featured anything appealing after Eli Roth’s adaptation.
According to SteamDB, for example, Borderlands 3 just reached a maximum number of concurrent players on Steam of 12,379, its number of concurrent players since February 2023. Additionally, SteamDB boosted Borderlands 2 to a maximum number of Steam players of 7,938 in February 2023. In recent days, the goal of the shooting game. Maximum number of concurrent players since February 2021.
If you head over to Steam’s Bestsellers chart, you can see that Borderlands 3 is currently outselling Baldur’s Gate 3 and God of War, and while Borderlands 2 is particularly low on the rankings, it’s still outselling hits like Stardew Valley. , Rainbow Six Siege. and The Wonders of Tiny Tina from Gearbox. It probably helps that both games are heavily discounted: Borderlands 3 at 90% off and Borderlands 2 at 75% off.
It’s an eerily clever time to jump into Borderlands 3, or return to the shooter if you’re a veteran gamer. A new update last week added the ability for players to jump straight to the end of the game, as long as they’ve already done so. a max-level character, so you can jump right into the endgame in Borderlands 3 with another character.
Here are 39 of the Easter eggs and game references from the Borderlands movie.
Hirun Cryer is a freelance journalist who founded Gamesradar in the United Kingdom. After graduating with a degree in United States History with a minor in Journalism, Film, Literature, and History, she ventured into the world of game writing, focusing on shooters, indie games, and role-playing games, and has since won the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time, he freelances with other media in the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys new manga and anime.
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