Randy Pitchford is leaving Gearbox games to focus on Gearbox movies, is still head of Gearbox overall

Gearbox president and CEO Randy Pitchford is stepping again from video games to give attention to the corporate's broader efforts to interrupt into movie and TV, as president of the writer's new Gearbox Studios subsidiary.

Saying the company reshuffle on Twitter, Pitchford defined that veteran chief know-how officer Steve Jones will tackle his function as president of Gearbox Software program. Pitchford in the end stays CEO and president of Gearbox as a complete, and notes that he'll “proceed carrying a artistic hat”, however that he's shifting to develop and develop a brand new film-focussed aspect of the corporate.

That information received't be a shock to anybody who watched Gearbox's E3 show this 12 months which, whereas gentle on video games, featured loads of Pitchford awkwardly chasing well-known actors throughout the set of the Borderlands movie and failing to attain a high-five off Kevin Hart.

That stated, Pitchford does seem to solely be operating Studios quickly. His assertion notes that he hopes to get the “transmedia” unit to a spot the place it's largely self-sufficient, at which level it’s going to probably get a brand new president.

We don't at present know what plans Gearbox Studios has for display screen and stream past the Borderlands film, which at present has no set launch date. However ought to that movie be a hit, what else might we anticipate from diversifications of Gearbox's video games?

An HBO Brothers in Arms mini-series? Battleborn revived as a Saturday-morning cartoon? The Duke Nukem cinematic universe? Erm… possibly that's sufficient hypothesis.