{"id":303301,"date":"2025-10-14T18:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:33:09","slug":"borderlands-4-discounted-a-month-after-launch-despite-boss-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303301\/","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 4 Discounted A Month After Launch Despite Boss’ Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borderlands 4 is already on sale. Helldivers 2 is on a break, sorta. The head of Assassin\u2019s Creed is leaving after roughly two decades at Ubisoft. Welcome to the latest edition of Morning Afternoon Checkpoint, Kotaku\u2018s daily roundup of gaming news and culture. This week is already off to a wild start. We\u2019re officially in peak period for the fall 2025 release calendar. Battlefield 6 was last week. Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A is this week. And a slew of big launches will finish things off leading up to Halloween. But in the meantime let\u2019s remember how good Final Fantasy Tactics Advance looked<\/a>. Now that is some gorgeous 16-bit pixel art. If only the rest of the game were as good!<\/p>\n

Borderlands 4 is 20 percent off a month after launch <\/p>\n

That\u2019s specifically on PC where sales may be soft due to a whole hullaballoo<\/a> over performance issues last month. Gearbox Entertainment head Randy Pitchford previously promised fans that the newest loot shooter in the franchise would go a long time without any massive discounts. Does this count? \u201cSales like this and Borderlands 3 showing up on console subscription programs took over 5 years from the game\u2019s launch to happen,\u201d he wrote<\/a> earlier this year in a thread pointing to a brief 95-percent discount for the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake advantage when it\u2019s here! And to set expectations, it will be even longer before this kind of thing happens in the next cycle with Borderlands 4.\u201d Let\u2019s see if Borderlands 4 gets down to $50 on PS5 and Xbox Series X\/S by Black Friday.<\/p>\n

A look at Rare\u2019s cancelled Everwild leaks online <\/p>\n

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#Vazou<\/a> Capturas de Tela do Cancelado Everwild da Rare \ud83d\udcf8<\/p>\n

As imagens mostravam (provavelmente) uma vers\u00e3o relativamente recente, de um pouco antes do jogo ser cancelado pela Microsoft<\/p>\n

A interface nos lembra um pouco dos jogos da franquia Zelda modernos , embora tenhamos sido\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/7lMlrAUvXw<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Pastor Xbox (@PastorXbox) October 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The action-adventure fantasy game started as a prototype at the Sea of Thieves studio over a decade ago. Multiple delays and development reboots later, Microsoft finally pulled the plug on the Xbox exclusive earlier this year. Everwild was first shown at an Xbox showcase back in 2019, and now fresh screenshots of a seemingly recent build (via MP1st<\/a>) have leaked on social media. Longtime Rare developer Gregg Mayles also confirmed<\/a> he\u2019s leaving the studio following the cancellation.<\/p>\n

The Japanese government asks OpenAI to stop stealing its IP <\/p>\n

Minoru Kiuchi, Minister of State for Economic Security, shared the news at a press conference last week. \u201cAnime and manga are irreplaceable treasures that we can be proud of around the world,\u201d he said (via ITMedia<\/a>). We have requested OpenAI not to engage in any actions that could constitute copyright infringement.\u201d The announcement comes after the release of Sora 2 led to a flood of new AI-generated slop<\/a> based on video game and anime characters, including those from Dragon Ball, One Piece, and Pok\u00e9mon.<\/p>\n

Sucker Punch will stay a one-game studio <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t expect the Ghost of Yotei team to start chasing multiple projects at once like Insomniac Games or other PlayStation studios. \u201cIf we were good at juggling four projects, yeah, we\u2019d have a remaster, and let\u2019s go do one of those, and one of those, and do some fan request that would be really popular\u2026but we only get to do one thing,\u201d Sucker Punch head Brian Fleming told VGC<\/a>. \u201cSo it kind of has to be your best idea, right? And that\u2019s really clarifying. It\u2019s not like there aren\u2019t 15 good ideas. But you only get to do one. And by the way, you only get to do one about every five years. So that choice is really important. I mean, that is choosing your college and your major every five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assassin\u2019s Creed franchise boss leaves Ubisoft after shake-up <\/p>\n

Marc-Alexis C\u00f4t\u00e9 is departing the French publisher following the recently announced Tencent-backed Vantage Studios subsidiary which will oversee Assassin\u2019s Creed and the company\u2019s other major franchises, IGN reports. \u201cFollowing the organizational restructuring announced in March 2025, Marc-Alexis C\u00f4t\u00e9 has chosen to pursue a new path elsewhere outside of Ubisoft,\u201d a Ubisoft spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cWhile we are saddened to see him go, we\u2019re confident that our talented teams will carry forward the strong foundation he helped build.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demon\u2019s Souls Remake studio is working on a new action game <\/p>\n

Bluepoint Games has a new project in the queue according to a recent job listing (via Tech4Gamers<\/a>). The PlayStation studio was previously working on a reportedly canceled live service God of War spin-off. A new job listing, since removed from the website, says the team is hiring a senior combat designer for a third-person melee action game. That sure narrows it down!<\/p>\n

The Helldivers 2 team is taking a break from new content to fix performance <\/p>\n

The sci-fi extraction shooter got a bunch of big updates this year, but the development team says it\u2019s now pivoting to fixing the overall state of the game\u2019s performance. \u201cWe\u2019re taking this very seriously and we are focusing way more now on addressing these issues to make sure this sort of thing doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d director Mikael Eriksson said in a recent interview (via Eurogamer<\/a>). \u201cWe have made the decision to push some of our content and feature updates a little bit into the future while we\u2019re addressing these things to make sure that we can get to a much more stable state that we can believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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