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The Best Office In The Video Game Industry

If you ran a dev studio like Gearbox, would your office be as cool as Randy Pitchford's?

While I was in the Dallas area for QuakeCon last week, I was lucky enough to swing by the Gearbox offices in their lofty place atop a Plano highrise. Primarily, I was there to see Borderlands, which is looking great but which I'm otherwise bound not to talk about for a couple of weeks here.

Anyway, since Jeff just spoke to the company's president Randy Pitchford on that neat-looking game in the recent past, I figured I'd use my interview time to investigate another subject I'd heard tales about: the nostalgic excellence of Pitchford's office. Embark on a little video tour, won't you?
 
 

   
 
Note: Any game developers out there who think they have a cooler office, I'd love to see pictures!
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Finally, a desktop environment that's more cluttered than mine!
 
Poor old 7800 relegated to the corner...  I didn't even know about the older Atari system with built-in games.  Wow.

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You got to love Randy Pitchford, one of the real nice guys of gaming. Plus I've loved many of his games.

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I cannot believe that people can own so many consoles... 
Are they independently wealthy or something?
Whenever a new console came out, i always had to sell my older system plus put some hard earned paperboy money on the table to get one.
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This should be made into a new series. Giant Bomb cribs; Top studios massive office-version. Awesome

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i have that gameboy micro!

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Cool vid, cool office.

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I am not sure I've played very many of the games he has worked on, put I thoroughly enjoyed Halo PC. :)

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Mr. Pitchford is a cool dude.
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Randy is my role model.

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That's a lotta icons! 
 
Where is the Commodore 64 and Amiga, duders? >:0

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Buy this game, support this company people!   Also I wish this guy was my boss.

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They should put a mode in this game called "Randy Co-Op", kinda like a director's commentary, but with an NPC co-op character, and have him comment about his excitement for every element in the game.

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I might have to buy Borderlands just out of respect for Randy. Brothers in Arms 3 was solid, but not as good as the first two. They chose not to flesh out the BIA formula in any way, so it became a one-trick pony in a already tired setting (WW2). Also way too much money and time was dumped into the story element of BIA3. The beginning of the game was like watching a daytime soap. But in WW2. *cringes* So hopefully with Borderlands, Gearbox is going to bust up the FPS mold a little then put it back together. It worked with COD4.

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That is so cool!  I must be uncultered to never have heard of randy pitchford before borderlands......  and ive played alot of the games he has worked on. 
 
That dude is awesome.

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Randy Pitchford drinks Mt. Dew JUST LIKE ME!

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@Sjupp said:
" This should be made into a new series. Giant Bomb cribs; Top studios massive office-version. Awesome "
YES!
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Randy Pitchford is such a great guy.

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really cool guy, his office is wicked!! 

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I can only hope to have an office like that someday...

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Dude, I never knew Gearbox was in Plano! I've lived here since I was 2. WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN THERE YET?
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Randy, i love your office. Total respect for you and your work philosophy dude.

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I'm seriously considering doing that with my old consoles, I've got about 98% of the ones he has (sold my Jag and Neo CD), and since I don't play them they might as well be on display.

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What a genuinely nice guy. Seemed excited to be showing the place and I liked his vibe when it came to discussing Borderlands/

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That's a sweet office.

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Randy Pitchford has recently become my favorite developer.  That is an amazing office, congrats!
 
Guys, you HAVE to get Randy on a Bombcast!  Davis, make it happen!  ;-)

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He drinks lots of  Mountain Dew lol

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I've heard repeatedly that that guy is genuinely excited about his stuff. It was nice to see his enthusiasm on the video.

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I fucking love Randy Pitchford.

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His excitement is contagious