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Joshua Wolens

Magical Randy Pitchford summons the ghost of games discourse past, says games 'Haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet'

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 06: (L-R) Eli Roth and Randy Pitchford attend the after party for the "Borderlands" Los Angeles Fan Event at Dave & Buster's on August 06, 2024 in Hollywood, California.

Randy Pitchford, Gearbox CEO, chronic tweeter, and known warlock, has performed his greatest magic trick yet. The magician has resurrected the dead—summoning the spirit of the most tedious videogame discourse of 2010 in a new documentary from Shacknews called 24 'Til Launch: The Making Of Borderlands 4.

"I love that we're just getting started," says Pitchford, right as the documentary wraps up. "When I say we, I'm talking about the whole industry together." Then he says it. He says the dread phrase that I truly thought we'd heard the last unironic use of at least a full decade ago. "We haven't even had our Citizen Kane yet, let alone, you know, Jurassic Park or Star Wars."

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