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American man of affairs, co-founder, president and CEO of Gearbox Software

Randy Pitchford
Randy Pitchford, E3 2015.jpg

Pitchford at E3 2015
Nationality American
Occupation President and CEO of The Gearbox Entertainment Visitor, president of Gearbox Studios

Randy Pitchford is an American man of affairs. He co-founded video game development studio Gearbox Software in 1999 and was president and CEO for the visitor until 2021, upon which he became CEO and president of Gearbox's parent company, The Gearbox Entertainment Visitor.

Early life and pedagogy [edit]

Pitchford's father worked within the Usa intelligence system, creating high-engineering science equipment for other agents. When Randy was five years old, his father brought abode one of the computers he had developed in 1975, and afterward gave Randy his own computer, built past himself, when Randy was seven.[1] Pitchford learned Bones to try to emulate arcade games of the time.[1] He wrote his first game (a sixteen-room text adventure) when he was about 11 or 12 on the machine. Pitchford stated that he played Colossal Cave Adventure and was then enamored by the game that he used a hex editor to examine the code and effigy out some of the programming concepts behind it.[2]

Later on high school, Pitchford went to University of California, Los Angeles, where his future married woman encouraged him to pursue a career in amusement.[one]

Interest in magic [edit]

Pitchford's peachy uncle was Richard Valentine Pitchford, a British magician under the stage proper noun Cardini. Pitchford inherited many of Cardini'south books and developed an involvement in magic at a young age. The Magic Castle in Hollywood, California now has an exhibit dedicated to Cardini, which contains props Pitchford donated to the Academy of Magical Arts for the display. [3] While he then proceeded to do video games on the side, he continued to perform as a professional person magician in Hollywood to help pay for school.

Throughout his career in video games, Pitchford has continued to perform as a magician. In 2016, Pitchford purchased Genii, the peak publication for magic and magicians. [iv] He is a fellow member of The Magic Castle in Los Angeles,[1] and in April 2022, was in the final stages of acquiring The Magic Castle.[5] Erika Larsen, daughter of the Magic Castle's founders, will operate the venue. The University of Magical Arts, of which Pitchford is a member, will remain a tenant. [6]

Career [edit]

Pitchford began his career at 3D Realms in Texas working on games such as Knuckles Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior.[one] A grouping of 3D Realms developers and programmers left the company to grade Rebel Boat Rocker around 1997, and Pitchford joined them in May 1997. The company's first game was to be the first-person shooter Prax War to exist published by Electronic Arts (EA). Pitchford served as the lead level designer as well as the public relations caput. Nonetheless, EA opted to abolish the game around Jan 1999.[7] [viii] With no publisher-backed project, Pitchford joined iv other Rebel Boat Rockers, some his quondam 3D Realms colleagues, to institute Gearbox Software in February 1999.[9]

Overall, Pitchford'south credited titles have sold more than 100 1000000 copies.[10] Games he has overseen at Gearbox have included Borderlands,[11] Bulletstorm,[12] and Borderlands 3.[13] Equally part of his leadership in Borderlands 3, he helped to bring a distributed computing puzzle game into Borderlands iii that supported the American Gut Project to help with RNA sequencing in collaboration with researchers at McGill University and University of California San Diego.[14]

Gearbox expanded out into publishing in 2015,[15] and by 2019, The Gearbox Entertainment Company was established to be the parent company of both Gearbox Software and Gearbox Publishing. During this period, Pitchford remained the president of Gearbox Software.[16] The Gearbox Entertainment Company was caused by Embracer Grouping in February 2021 and incorporated in whole equally ane of the top-level divisions within Embracer.[xvi] Following completion of the conquering and the creating of Gearbox Studios, Pitchford left Gearbox Software to become president and CEO of The Gearbox Entertainment Company and president of Gearbox Studios.[17] Part of Pitchford's role in Gearbox Studios was to serve as executive producer for the Borderlands motion picture.[18]

Works [edit]

Year Game Role
1996 Duke Nukem 3D Designer
1997 Shadow Warrior Designer
1999 Half-Life: Opposing Forcefulness Designer, Director, Producer, Writer
2001 Half-Life: Blueish Shift Director, Producer, Writer
2002 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater three Director, Producer
2004 Counter-Strike: Condition Cipher Designer, Producer
2005 Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 Creator, Managing director, Executive Producer
2008 Brothers in Artillery: Hell's Highway Creator, Director, Executive Producer
2009 Borderlands Creator, Designer, Executive Producer, Vox Actor, Writer
2012 Borderlands 2 Creator, Executive Producer, Voice Actor
2014 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Creator, Executive Producer, Voice Actor
2015 Homeworld Remastered Collection Executive Producer
2019 Borderlands 3 Creator, Executive Producer, Voice Actor

Crowdfunding [edit]

In 2013, Pitchford received an executive producer credit on the film Director'southward Cut, as well as Penn Jillette's ponytail, for pledging US$25,000 to its crowdfunding campaign.[19] In March 2018, Pitchford announced he had joined the informational lath for Fig, a mixed investor/crowdfunding service for video game development.[xx]

Litigation [edit]

In 2018, onetime Gearbox lawyer Wade Callender filed a lawsuit confronting Pitchford,[21] that alleged that Pitchford had left a USB drive containing sensitive Gearbox information and "child pornography" at a eating place in 2014.[22] [23] Pitchford antiseptic that the pornographic film on the USB drive was not child pornography and stated that he had saved the pornography for the purposes of studying a sexual human action performed by the female actress that he claimed to be like to a "magic fox."[21] [24] Gearbox filed a grievance with the Land Bar of Texas against Callender for "filing a lawsuit that includes accusations that he knows to be untrue".[22] [23] Callender later provided documents that he claimed backed up his position.[25] An Baronial 2019 filing farther declared Pitchford and his employers of antipathy.[26] In October 2019, both sides announced that the lawsuit had been dropped, and a joint statement by the parties chosen the issue a misunderstanding, and further stated that Pitchford had been exonerated.[27]

In May 2019, David Eddings, the voice actor for the Borderlands graphic symbol "Claptrap" accused Pitchford of attack during the 2017 Game Developers Briefing. According to Eddings, Pitchford physically shoved Eddings after mentioning to Pitchford that he had been told someone was attempting to buy Gearbox as well as mentioning the Callendar lawsuit. Eddings was let go shortly afterwards the result, which he states was why he did not vocalism Claptrap in Borderlands 3. Pitchford denied he assaulted Eddings, and Gearbox stated they took the affair seriously merely made no further annotate equally it was a personal matter.[28]

Personal life [edit]

Pitchford has a son.[29]

References [edit]

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