Gearbox’s Show
The Gearbox E3 2021 showcase had a lot of people relatively excited. Would we get a closer look at Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands — the Borderlands spin-off — or would we get some entirely new game announcements to accompany it? Unfortunately, we didn’t get either, really, in the 30-minute showcase.
Instead, we got a lot of Randy Pitchford walking around the Borderlands movie set, talking about the Borderlands movie.
Aside from Pitchford being left hanging by Kevin Hart, there wasn’t really anything else to take away from the showcase. Homeworld 3 is in production, but there wasn’t really anything to show of the real-time strategy title. A Godfall expansion was announced, to the delight of the 12 people still playing it.
As for Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, we got another look at the trailer we’d already seen, and confirmation we’d be fighting Wyverns in the game, but that was it.
While Gearbox certainly weren’t alone in doing this, it was arguably the most obvious publisher to arrange a digital showcase with very little to show.
Now I know, it’s been a crazy 18 months and I completely appreciate developers have been doing their best to bring us these little digital joys to keep us happy for endless hours. These games will be great, I’m sure, but they don’t need a very brief section in a largely pointless digital showcase to reaffirm that in fans’ heads. Wait until you’ve got something substantial to show, and then blow our socks off!
