Borderlands 4's loot grind is good for your brain, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford says, and that the studio would "be dead" if other competitors understood that better

Borderlands 4 screenshot showing a psycho holding a fiery weapon.

Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford says Gearbox doesn't have "good competitors" in the looter-shooter genre because other developers don't spend enough time thinking about the mechanics of the loot grind.

Speaking to the BBC, Pitchford argued that the Borderlands series' core mechanic - the choice about whether to stick with your current piece of loot or swap for a new one - "is a very compelling, fundamental, both need and skill that our brains have."