The Borderlands movie arguably would have been a huge flop, but Gearbox games are experiencing a huge resurgence following the film’s disappointing release.
The Borderlands film just got here out last week and – spoiler alert – it is not great. Our Borderlands review lambasted it as “a frenetic, messy crisis that players are most probably to hate,” giving it just two stars. Other critics did not like it either – at one point, the Borderlands film had 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 looter shooter series is having 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 presented anything compelling after the Eli Roth 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. In addition, SteamDB has elevated Borderlands 2 to a maximum of 7,938 Steam players in recent years. days, the shooter’s point. Maximum number of concurrent players since February 2021.
If you head over to Steam’s best-seller rankings, you can see that Borderlands 3 is outselling Baldur’s Gate 3 and God of War lately, and while Borderlands 2 is particularly down in the rankings, it still beats out hits like Stardew Valley, Rainbow Six Siege and Gearbox. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. It helps that both games are heavily discounted: Borderlands 3 at 90% off and Borderlands 2 at 75% off.
It’s an eerily auspicious time to jump into Borderlands 3, or to get back into the shooter if you’re a veteran gamer. A new update last week added the ability for players to jump right into the endgame, 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 and founded Gamesradar in the UK. After graduating in United States History with specializations in Journalism, Film, Literature and History, he expanded into the world of game writing, focusing on shooters and 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 industry media, practices Japanese, and enjoys new manga and anime.
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