One of the biggest criticisms of The Game Awards last night was that winners were played off the stage, and showrunner Geoff Keighley agrees that this is "something to address."
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Randy Pitchford, founder of Gearbox Entertainment, will speak at our next event, GamesBeat at The Game Awards on December 7 at LA Live’s Grammy Museum.
We’ll be holding a half a day of panels on gaming’s intersection with culture, such as gaming and Hollywood. Our theme is “Pixels to Pop Culture” with all that suggests. You can sign up here and use this code GBGA23DEAN100 for $100 off the ticket price.
I’m happy to confirm today that Randy Pitchford, who is an actual magician and the creative mind behind the Borderlands series, will do a fireside chat with Ari Arad, filmmaker and creator of game adaptations such as the Uncharted film (the Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg film from 2022 that generated $407 million at the box office) and the upcoming Mass Effect series on Amazon.
Our other speakers include Johanna Faries, general manager of Call of Duty at Activision. (We’ll be highlighting her in our next speaker post. We also have Annie Belfield of TikTok, Peter Levin of Griffin Gaming Partners, Russell Binder of Striker Entertainment, Jordan Fragen of GamesBeat, Meg Tucker of Games at Google Cloud, Mike Delaet of Mattel, Michael Metzger of Drake Star Partners, Danny Bilson of USC Games, and Mike Minotti of GamesBeat.
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Pitchford has been in the video game industry for more than 30 years and is the founder of the Gearbox
Entertainment Company, which develops and publishes award-winning and best-selling video games
through its subsidiaries, Gearbox Software and Gearbox Publishing, and produces groundbreaking film
and television content. It’s now part of the Embracer Group.
Gearbox is a recognized triple-A studio and was nominated as a “Best Place to Work” by the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Business Journal. Pitchford has created, developed, produced, directed, written, designed, and otherwise driven or significantly contributed to some of the most successful and famous video game franchises of all time.
From leading the creation of the critically acclaimed, record-breaking original franchises Borderlands and Brothers in Arms to helping build industry-leading, genre-defining games with licensed properties including Half-Life and Halo, Pitchford is one of the most impactful and respected video game developers in the world.
His credited titles across generations and platforms have sold more than 100 million units generating billions of dollars in revenue. Pitchford is commitment to bringing joy to
One of the biggest criticisms of The Game Awards last night was that winners were played off the stage, and showrunner Geoff Keighley agrees that this is "something to address."
The Game Awards is an annual ceremony where we gather online and celebrate the accomplishments within the video game industry. We have awards handed out to different genres, even composers. There were plenty of incredible games that were released this past twelve months, and there are bound to be some games that players are bummed that didn’t even get a nomination. Regardless, if you tuned into the event last night, you were able to see several of these studios and individuals get their awards. With that said, now that we’re out of The Game Awards, it looks like Sony is going to help keep this event on player’s minds as we go through the weekend. A new PlayStation Store promo has kicked off, and it ends in just a few days.
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