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Gearbox Software, LLC is an independent American video game development company based in Plano, Texas. The developer is best known for the ''Borderlands'' franchise. The company also owns the intellectual property of ''Duke Nukem'' and ''Homeworld''. ==History== Gearbox Software was founded on February 16, 1999〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=133626 )〕 by five members of the content team from the defunct developer Rebel Boat Rocker: Randy Pitchford, Brian Martel, Stephen Bahl, Landon Montgomery, and Rob Heironimus. Before Rebel Boat Rocker, Pitchford and Martel previously worked together at 3D Realms, and Montgomery previously worked at Bethesda Softworks. They started with developing expansions to Valve Software's ''Half-Life''. Porting ''Half-Life'' to console platforms (each with new game content) followed, building the company's experience in console game-making, in addition to enhancing and building upon the successful ''Counter-Strike'' branch of the ''Half-Life'' franchise. Prior to ''Half-Life 2'', they had developed or helped develop every ''Half-Life'' expansion game or port, including ''Opposing Force'', ''Blue Shift'', ''Counter-Strike: Condition Zero'', ''Half-Life'' for the Sony PlayStation 2 (including ''Half-Life Decay''), and ''Half-Life'' for the Sega Dreamcast (including ''Blue Shift''). Branching out to other publishers, they pursued additional port work, each game being released with additional content, but this time from console to PC. These projects included their first non-first-person shooter, ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3'', and ''Halo: Combat Evolved'', forging new publisher relationships with Activision and Microsoft Game Studios respectively. Additional new development, in the form of a PC game in the James Bond franchise (''James Bond 007: Nightfire'') for Electronic Arts, also occurred during the company's initial 5-year period. In 2005, they launched an original property of their creation, ''Brothers in Arms'', with the release of ''Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30'' on the Xbox, PC and PlayStation 2. Later that year a sequel, ''Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood'', was launched. In 2008 ''Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway'' was released. 2007 brought announcements of new projects based on licensed film intellectual properties, including the crime drama ''Heat''〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/demonik/news.html?sid=6150948 )〕 and the science-fiction classic ''Aliens''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2006-12-17 )〕 In the September 2007 issue of Game Informer, a new game franchise was revealed, the sci-fi shooter ''Borderlands'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?story=48486 )〕 after which Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford mentioned in an online interview that development on the ''Heat'' game had not yet begun, as the planned development partner for the project had gone under.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What Happened To Gearbox Software's Heat? )〕 This was followed by an announcement by Sega that they would be helming a new version of rhythm game ''Samba de Amigo'' for the Wii, a departure from their signature first-person shooter titles.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Samba De Amigo Announcement )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gearbox Software」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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